Hi Cano

Did you push MOESI patch? How I can receive It?

Thanks,
Raziye

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Okay, thanks for the opportunity to push some code to gem5's repo. If it's
> okay to you, I'm going to push the MOESI patch now and later another fixing
> other protocols. I'm doing right now some experiments to reproduce the
> problem in the remaining ones.
>
> Thanks again,
> Cano.
>
> 2017-03-10 17:46 GMT+01:00 Lebeane, Michael <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi Cano,
>>
>>
>>
>> No, I haven’t started working on it yet.  I guess your further along than
>> me, so feel free to take over if you wish J
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Javier
>> Cano Cano
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 10, 2017 10:17 AM
>>
>> *To:* gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] Outstanding DMA requests and
>> MOESI_CMP_directory protocol
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi again Michael,
>>
>> Did you push the patch? I'm asking just to avoid push the same patch
>> because I was working on that too.
>>
>> Yes, I found this problem in others protocols. I can't remember the
>> protocols right now (I wrote them on my lab notebook, but I forgot it). The
>> Monday I will tell you.
>>
>> Cano.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-03-10 16:47 GMT+01:00 Lebeane, Michael <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi Cano,
>>
>>
>>
>> No problem, happy to help!
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, cur_state should really be in the TBE to allow multiple in-flight
>> requests, but that queue overflow panic does not appear to be an easy fix.
>> I think we should just push out this bug fix for now with a comment about
>> what we observed when moving cur_state into the TBE.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can go ahead and make this patch.  I also want to check if any of the
>> other protocols have similar bugs when booting a full system image (unless
>> you already checked this in your experiments).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Javier
>> Cano Cano
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 10, 2017 4:54 AM
>>
>>
>> *To:* gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] Outstanding DMA requests and
>> MOESI_CMP_directory protocol
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> In the original file the cur_state variable isn't part of TBE's stucture,
>> I thought that should be on it, so I moved into TBE's structure. My bad.
>> That's the only additional difference, I didn't post that on my previous
>> email, sorry.
>>
>> I tested your last propose and seems to work fine for me to. I made some
>> experiments and all of them works, so I think that we solved the problem.
>> Probably we should try to push this changes to gem5's repo. There is at
>> least one more guy reporting this problem.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks a lot for your emails and your time Michael, really helped
>> me a lot, I hope that this conversation will help to other users as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best.
>>
>> Cano.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-03-09 20:38 GMT+01:00 Lebeane, Michael <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi Cano,
>>
>>
>>
>> I downloaded the x86 binaries and was able to reproduce the transition
>> error.  Sorry I forgot the wakeups in my original suggestion, but it seems
>> like you figured out what I was trying to do anyway J.
>>
>>
>>
>> After implementing the stalls and wakeups exactly as you did, it seems to
>> work fine for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was able to replicate the overflow problem if I move the cur_state
>> variable to the TBEs so that the protocol can support more than one
>> outstanding DMA transaction.  There is no backpressure being applied when
>> you are doing streaming writes from the DMA controller; the directory just
>> plops them in the packet queue to memory and allows the DMA controller to
>> send more, which eventually triggers the assertion.  However, if I leave
>> cur_state alone and just fix the transition bug, it appears to work fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you have any other modifications to the protocol besides what you show
>> on the previous email?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Javier
>> Cano Cano
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:24 AM
>> *To:* gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] Outstanding DMA requests and
>> MOESI_CMP_directory protocol
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for you response, I appreciate it.
>>
>> The error is reproducible even with the binaries provided by gem5's wiki:
>> http://www.m5sim.org/dist/current/x86/x86-system.tar.bz2
>>
>> I tried your propose but I getting this error:
>>
>> hda: ide_dma_sff_timer_expiry: DMA status (0x21)
>> hda: DMA timeout error
>> hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>> hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xc8
>> hda: ide_dma_sff_timer_expiry: DMA status (0x21)
>> hda: DMA timeout error
>> hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>> hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xc8
>>
>> This is because stall_and_wait() function push the messages into
>> dmaRequestQueue_in but the messages are never pulled out. The simulation
>> boots up after a huge amount of time, but it doesn't looks to be correct.
>>
>> I took a look into another protocol files and I added this lines:
>>
>>
>>   action(zz_stallAndWaitRequestQueue, "zz", desc="...") {
>>     stall_and_wait(dmaRequestQueue_in, address);
>>   }
>>
>>
>>
>> *   action(wkad_wakeUpAllDependents, "wkad", desc="wake-up all
>> dependents") {     wakeUpAllBuffers();   }*
>>
>> transition(BUSY_RD, Data, READY) {
>>     t_updateTBEData;
>>     d_dataCallbackFromTBE;
>>     w_deallocateTBE;
>>     //u_updateAckCount;
>>     //o_checkForCompletion;
>>     p_popResponseQueue;
>>     *wkad_wakeUpAllDependents;*
>>   }
>>
>>   transition(BUSY_RD, All_Acks, READY) {
>>     d_dataCallbackFromTBE;
>>     //u_sendExclusiveUnblockToDir;
>>     w_deallocateTBE;
>>     p_popTriggerQueue;
>>     *wkad_wakeUpAllDependents;*
>>   }
>>
>>   transition(BUSY_WR, All_Acks, READY) {
>>     a_ackCallback;
>>     u_sendExclusiveUnblockToDir;
>>     w_deallocateTBE;
>>     p_popTriggerQueue;
>>     *wkad_wakeUpAllDependents;*
>>   }
>>
>>   transition({BUSY_RD,BUSY_WR}, {ReadRequest,WriteRequest}) {
>>    zz_stallAndWaitRequestQueue;
>>   }
>>
>> With this changes, the msgs are pulled from queues at some point.
>> However, the queues still overflow and gem5 shows this error:
>>
>>
>> panic: Packet queue system.ruby.dir_cntrl0.memory- has grown beyond 100
>> packets
>> Memory Usage: 1287832 KBytes
>> Program aborted at tick 5224739073500
>>
>> I'm missing something, maybe a transition where the should be awaken as
>> well, but I can't figure it out.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Cano.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-03-02 23:08 GMT+01:00 Lebeane, Michael <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi Cano,
>>
>>
>>
>> I can’t test this as I don’t have your binaries to reproduce the problem,
>> but do adding these lines in MOESI_CMP_directory-dma.sm fix your problem?
>>
>>
>>
>> action(zz_stallAndWaitRequestQueue, "zz", desc="...") {
>>
>>     stall_and_wait(dmaRequestQueue_in, address);
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> transition({BUSY_RD,BUSY_WR}, {ReadRequest,WriteRequest}) {
>>
>>     zz_stallAndWaitRequestQueue;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* gem5-users [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Javier
>> Cano Cano
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:23 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [gem5-users] Outstanding DMA requests and MOESI_CMP_directory
>> protocol
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> Some days ago, I updated my gem5 version in order to test Garnet2.0. But
>> I found that MOESI_CMP_directory protocol wasn't working. As far as I know,
>> the problem comes from the patch http://repo.gem5.org/gem5?cmd=
>> changeset;node=0bf388858d1e This patch allows outstanding DMA requests.
>> Some protocols had been updated to support this new feature but
>> MOESI_CMP_directory, as well as others, doesn't.
>>
>> I'm using the following command to build Gem5:
>>
>> scons ./build/X86/gem5.opt PROTOCOL=MOESI_CMP_directory  RUBY=True -j30
>>
>> To run the simulation, the following instructions had been used:
>>
>> ./build/X86/gem5.opt configs/example/fs.py --ruby
>> --kernel=/home/cano/gem5/system/binaries/x86_64-vmlinux-3.4.112.smp
>> --disk-image=/home/cano/curgem5/canolab/system/disks/gentoo.img
>>
>>
>>
>> The error that gem5 shows when I try to run a simulation is:
>>
>> panic: Invalid transition
>> system.ruby.dma_cntrl0 time: 9702290051 <%28970%29%20229-0051> addr:
>> 504500288 event: WriteRequest state: BUSY_WR
>>  @ tick 4851145025500
>>
>> [doTransitionWorker:build/X86/mem/protocol/DMA_Transitions.cc, line 135]
>>
>>
>> The problem has something to do with file MOESI_CMP_directory-dma.sm
>> which doesn't support the state changes introduced on patch 0bf388858d1e.
>>
>>
>> Did someone have this problem?
>>
>> I tried to update the protocol, but no luck, I get a error saying that
>> the queues have more than 100 messages stored on it.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have the MOESI_CMP_directory files modified to support this
>> new feature?
>>
>>
>>
>> In order to temporally fix the problem, I rolled back the changes
>> introduced on the mentioned patch.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Cano.
>>
>>
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