Re: [gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-30 Thread Srajan Khare
Hi Prof. Jason, After your suggestion, I added other patches too and it worked. I also tested for bzip2, cactusADM, gcc and GemsFDTD. They all worked till the end without any issue. Although, addition of patches 9963, 10141 and 10142 respectively was fine without any conflict, but, when I added f

Re: [gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-29 Thread Jason Lowe-Power
Hi Srajan, Could you post this on our code review site so the patch creator (Daniel) can take a look? You can register on the site with a google account (e.g., your gmail). Then, you can post a reply on this page: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/9741. One possible source of y

Re: [gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-29 Thread Srajan Khare
Hi Jason, As per your suggestion I included the recently committed patch (for creating sector cache) with my gem5 version. Then after, just to get an idea of Sector Cache performance, I ran simulation for *bzip2 *SPEC CPU2006 benchmark with 1B fast forward and then executing 500M instruction in De

Re: [gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-29 Thread Srajan Khare
Thank you Jason for your quick reply! On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Srajan Khare wrote: > Hi friends, > > I have been implementing Cache Compression algorithm in gem5. > So in order to tap data for all the writes into L3 cache I have been using > handleFill() function in cache.cc file. I ha

Re: [gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-21 Thread Jason Lowe-Power
Hi, While I'm not sure I can directly answer your question, I know there's been significant changes recently to the tag structure in the caches to support creating new compressed caches. See this set of changesets (some of which have been merged) in gerrit (our code review site). https://gem5-revi

[gem5-users] Issues in handling compressed data for L3 cache

2018-05-19 Thread Srajan Khare
Hi friends, I have been implementing Cache Compression algorithm in gem5. So in order to tap data for all the writes into L3 cache I have been using handleFill() function in cache.cc file. I have been using following command to transfer data in compressed format into L3 cache. ---*Cod