Re: [gem5-users] Question about writeClean command

2019-07-11 Thread Nikos Nikoleris
Hi Yuan, This is indeed what WriteClean does. It is always initiated by a cache which has a dirty copy of the block and updates any copies that might exist in memories below. This will leave the initiating cache with a clean copy of the block. Nikos On 10/07/2019 20:28, yuan wrote: > Hi, All, >

[gem5-users] Question about writeClean command

2019-07-10 Thread yuan
Hi, All, I found that there is a kind of command in packet.hh file called writeClean, and the comment for this command is writes dirty data below without evicting. I am wondering what’s the meaning of this command, is that when we have a cache hit and find that this cache block is dirty, we jus