Yes, it's been discussed on this list before.
In reality: possible
In M5: not supported

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know about in general, but I'm pretty sure you can't in M5. I
> think it has to do with the coherence protocol. Other people are more
> familiar with those areas than I am, but I'm pretty sure this has come
> up before and that was the conclusion.
>
> Gabe
>
> biswabandan panda wrote:
> > Hi Gabe,
> >              the  statement made by you is for m5 or in
> > general?because some of simulators do support different block sizes
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm pretty sure you can't actually have different block sizes.
> >
> >     Gabe
> >
> >     sunitha p wrote:
> >     > can u just help me out in dis regard..because we got an error if we
> >     > have different block sizes for L1 and L2
> >     >
> >     > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, biswabandan panda
> >     > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     yes but in real processors the block size used to be same at
> all
> >     >     the three levels
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:02 PM, sunitha p
> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >     wrote:
> >     >
> >     >         Thanks
> >     >
> >     >         Is it possible for having different block sizes for
> >     different
> >     >         caches
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >         On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, biswabandan panda
> >     >         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >             assign block size to 32 in both the caches and so on. I
> >     >             think there are some issues with 16byte block size.
> >     >
> >     >             On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:14 AM, sunitha p
> >     >             <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >                 Hi all,
> >     >
> >     >                 I am trying to change the block sizes of L1 and
> >     L2 caches.
> >     >
> >     >                 Have changed L1 cache block size =16 and L2 to 32
> in
> >     >                 run.py file
> >     >
> >     >                 but finding these errors.
> >     >
> >     >                 M5 Simulator System
> >     >
> >     >                 Copyright (c) 2001-2008
> >     >                 The Regents of The University of Michigan
> >     >                 All Rights Reserved
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >                 M5 compiled Jan 13 2011 12:49:12
> >     >                 M5 revision Unknown
> >     >                 M5 started Jan 23 2011 01:12:36
> >     >                 M5 executing on sunita
> >     >                 command line: build/ALPHA_SE/m5.debug
> >     >                 configs/splash2/run.py --rootdir
> >     splash/splash2/codes
> >     >                 -t -m 10000000000 --frequency 1GHz -n 4 --l1size
> >     16kB
> >     >                 --l2size 64kB --l1latency 4ns --l2latency 11ns
> >     -b FMM
> >     >                 Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per
> >     second
> >     >                 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote
> >     >                 gdb #0 on port 7000
> >     >                 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote
> >     >                 gdb #1 on port 7001
> >     >                 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote
> >     >                 gdb #2 on port 7002
> >     >                 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote
> >     >                 gdb #3 on port 7003
> >     >                 info: Entering event queue @ 0.  Starting
> >     simulation...
> >     >                 info: Increasing stack size by one page.
> >     >                 m5.debug:
> >     build/ALPHA_SE/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:347:
> >     >                 bool Cache<TagStore>::access(Packet*, typename
> >     >                 TagStore::BlkType*&, int&, PacketList&) [with
> >     TagStore
> >     >                 = LRU]: Assertion `blkSize == pkt->getSize()'
> >     failed.
> >     >                 Program aborted at cycle 173377000
> >     >                 Aborted
> >     >
> >     >                 kindly help
> >     >
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