Definitely. This makes ports a lot more abstract, where they just represent
a potential association between two objects. The nature and function of
that association is up to either side of the connection, as implement in
their Port subclasses. That *could* be the traditional MemObject style of
Hey Gabe,
I'll need to think about this a bit more myself, but do you think these
changes will increase the places we can use ports? Like Andreas was saying,
it would be nice to use it for things like interrupt routing, connecting
TLBs, and connecting all of the wavefronts in the GPU to the
Great, I'm glad you're in favor of this. I have a new, hopefully more final
batch of patches incoming soon which also include application of the new
mechanism to TLM sockets.
Gabe
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 2:47 AM Andreas Sandberg
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I remember talking to Andreas H about
Hi Everyone,
I remember talking to Andreas H about this many years ago. If I remember
correctly, the main reason the patch wasn't committed at the time was
performance related. IIRC, the patch series had a ~10%-20% performance
hit. I suspect it the patch Jason pointed to isn't the main reason for
My doc is updated with what my patches turned into, so PTAL if you have a
chance. I think it turned out to be pretty straightforward which should
make it an easier read.
I took a look at Andrea's patch, and it has some pretty interesting ideas
in there. One prominent difference I see is that I
Thanks for digging this up, Jason. I knew this issue had been addressed
multiple times before (I think I even had a patch at one point that was a
smaller change, but held it off in favor of Andreas's version). I don't
know why Andreas's change was never committed either.
Anyway, it will be good
Hey Gabe,
I was digging through the old reviewboard and found this patch that also
re-did this interface: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1301
I'm not sure why this was never committed.
I believe Andreas H's goal was to enable TLM-2 interfaces with the gem5,
IIRC.
Just something to consider.
Hey folks, specifically folks looking at this doc. I have a series of
patches which largely implement what I was going for, although it turned
out differently than what I have in my doc. I'll update the doc soon(ish)
to describe the current version. Go ahead and review the CLs if you want,
Hi folks. I've been looking at how to configure TLM sockets through gem5's
port configuration mechanism and how gem5's port configuration mechanism
works in general, and I think I've mostly come up with a plan. I've written
everything up in a doc over here:
