Mem: Fix issue with dirty block being lost when entire block transferred to non-cache.

This change fixes the problem for all the cases we actively use. If you want to try
more creative I/O device attachments (E.g. sharing an L2), this won't work. You
would need another level of caching between the I/O device and the cache
(which you actually need anyway with our current code to make sure writes
propagate). This is required so that you can mark the cache in between as
top level and it won't try to send ownership of a block to the I/O device.
Asserts have been added that should catch any issues.
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Ali Saidi
2011-03-17 19:20:19 -05:00
parent 2f40b3b8ae
commit a432d8e085
24 changed files with 54 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ class BaseCache(MemObject):
size = Param.MemorySize("capacity in bytes")
forward_snoops = Param.Bool(True,
"forward snoops from mem side to cpu side")
is_top_level = Param.Bool(False, "Is this cache at the top level (e.g. L1)")
subblock_size = Param.Int(0,
"Size of subblock in IIC used for compression")
tgts_per_mshr = Param.Int("max number of accesses per MSHR")