physical... all addresses in the memory system are physical, as the translation is done in the CPU.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:29 AM, biswabandan panda <[email protected]>wrote: > thank u very much steve, it clears all the doubts, one last q is it > operating on virtual or physical address? thanks again for your time > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The prefetch queue is just a queue of addresses generated by the >> prefetcher; when the cache has an opportunity it will pull an address of >> that queue and generate a prefetch request for it. While the prefetch >> request is outstanding it is tracked in the MSHRs like any other request. >> When the response returns, the data is put in the cache, again just like >> any other request. >> >> Steve >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:36 AM, biswabandan panda >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> i mean to say prefetch queue >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> There is no prefetch buffer... what code makes you think that there is? >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:08 AM, biswabandan panda <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> It seem the prefetched blockse were not transferred to upper >>>>> level cache. what i understood from the code in prefetch folder >>>>> cacheimpl.hh >>>>> and mshr.hh, is from the processor side, it will search in the L1 cache >>>>> and >>>>> then in the mshr and then in the prefetch buffer. So the prefetched block >>>>> never transfered to L1 cache. Please correct me if i was wrong? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> *thanks®ards >>>>> * >>>>> *BISWABANDAN PANDA* >>>>> *M.S.(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)* >>>>> *RISE LAB* >>>>> *IIT MADRAS* >>>>> >>>>> http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/<http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Ebiswa/> >>>>> >>>>> "Happy Republic Day" ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk02qPlnS2E >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> m5-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> m5-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> *thanks®ards >>> * >>> *BISWABANDAN PANDA* >>> *M.S.(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)* >>> *RISE LAB* >>> *IIT MADRAS* >>> >>> http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/ <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Ebiswa/> >>> >>> "Happy Republic Day" ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk02qPlnS2E >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> m5-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > > > > -- > > *thanks®ards > * > *BISWABANDAN PANDA* > *M.S.(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)* > *RISE LAB* > *IIT MADRAS* > > http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/ <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Ebiswa/> > > "Happy Republic Day" ------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk02qPlnS2E > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >
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