Right, but for my case i know before that the line i
am going to invalidate is in shared state. So, to
force a write miss is it possible to do an
invalidation first (without regard of mesi, from the
processor itself) and then issue the write request?
which function can i use for this? i need something
which can do this thing internally without actually
generating any write request.
--- Steve Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On Nov 20, 2007 6:49 AM, abc def
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Suppose in my simulation i have L1 cache and no
> L2.
> > Now i want some request to access cache but some
> > should be forced to go to network as if there is
> no
> > L1.
> > How to do this efficiently?
>
> If you have a distinct set of uncacheable addresses,
> then you can just
> set the UNCACHEABLE bit in the flags field of the
> Request object.
>
> If you want to bypass the L1 sometimes (and
> sometimes not) for the
> same address, then this won't work, as you might
> bypass the L1 when
> that's where the only up-to-date copy is.
>
> >
> > In cpu.cc there is a boolean variable called
> do_access
> > which is stated to control cache access. But in
> the
> > code there is nothing mentioned what happens
> do_access
> > is false:
> >
> > /*
> > if (do_access) {
> > if
> (!dcachePort.sendTiming(dcache_pkt)) {
> > _status = DcacheRetry;
> > } else {
> > _status = DcacheWaitResponse;
> > // memory system takes ownership
> of packet
> > dcache_pkt = NULL;
> > }
> > }
> > */
>
> When do_access is false, the access is not
> performed. If you look a
> little more carefully at how that flag is used,
> you'll see that it
> only gets set when there's a store-conditional that
> is guaranteed to
> fail so there's no point in even going to the cache
> with it.
>
> Steve
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