This makes what are configuration and what are internal SCons variables
explicit and separate, and makes it unnecessary to call out what
variables to export to C++.
These variables will also be plumbed into and out of kconfiglib in later
changes.
Change-Id: Iaf5e098d7404af06285c421dbdf8ef4171b3f001
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/56892
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This patch adds the source code for a mode of traffic generator to
generate strided access pattern to the memory. The main difference
between a stridedGen and linearGen are in the way startAddr and
nextAddr are set. In stridedGen instead of increasing the current
address by blocksize to generate nextAddr, it is increased by
strideSize. Also, the offset param is used to indicate the order
of any instances of traffic generator in an array (similar to
threadId.x in CUDA)
Change-Id: I80df414faf1c73f68e87400654675a553de0caa5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/40515
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Add NVM interface to memory controller.
This can be used with or instead of the existing
DRAM interface. Therefore, a single controller can interface
to either DRAM or NVM, or both.
Specifically, a memory channel can be configured as:
- Memory controller interfacing to DRAM only
- Memory controller interfacing to NVM only
- Memory controller interfacing to both DRAM and NVM
How data is placed or migrated between media types is outside
of the scope of this change.
The NVM interface incorporates new static delay parameters
for read and write completion. The interface defines a 2
stage read to manage non-deterministic read delays while
enabling deterministic data transfer, similar to NVDIMM-P.
The NVM interface also includes parameters to define
read and write buffers on the media side (on-DIMM). These are
utilized to quickly offload commands and write data, mitigating
the effects of lower latency and bandwidth media characteristics.
Change-Id: I6b22ddb495877f88d161f0bd74ade32cc8fdcbcc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29027
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wendy Elsasser <wendy.elsasser@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
This patch is adding support for generating memory requests which set
the StreamID/SubstreamID field, so that is possible to emulate devices
attached to an external IOMMU/SMMU with a Traffic generator.
Change-Id: Iea068de581ae7125a9d49314124a08c045c75b49
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12188
The current traffic generator relies on a configuration file that
describes a small machine to generate stimuli. This configuration file
is usually generated by the gem5 Python configuration. This creates an
unnecessary and fragile step.
This changeset introduces a Python-based trace module. When
instantiated, the module exposes a start method that takes an iterable
object as a parameter (e.g., a generator). The iterable object is
expected to represent a list of generators that will be run one after
the other. For example:
system.tgen = PyTrafficGen()
m5.instantiate()
def trace():
yield system.tgen.createIdle(1000)
yield system.tgen.createExit(0)
system.tgen.start(trace())
Change-Id: I58e60ca517e86c197859f4daaa67750066abdc1c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11518
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
The traffic generator currently assumes that it is always driven from
a configuration file. Split it into a base class (BaseTrafficGen) that
handles basic packet generation and a derived class that implements
the config handling (TrafficGen).
Change-Id: I9407f04c40ad7e40a263c8d1ef29d37ff8e6f1b4
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11515
Added the ExitGen to the TrafficGenerator which allows an EXIT
state to be added to the TrafficGen configuration file. Entering this
state will cause the simulation to exit immediately. Please note that
if multiple TrafficGen instances have an EXIT state, the first of these
to be encountered will cause the simulation to terminate.
Change-Id: Ieea51f05ffb780771f007787a2b119f79143d0c1
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5723
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch enables the use of the generator behaviours outside the
TrafficGen module. This is useful e.g. to allow packet replay modes
for other devices in the system without having to replace them with a
TrafficGen in the configuration files.
This change also enables more specific behaviours to be composed as
specific modules, e.g. BaseBandModem can use a number of generators
and have application-specific parameters based around a specific set
of generators.
This patch adds support for reading input traces encoded using
protobuf according to what is done in the CommMonitor.
A follow-up patch adds a Python script that can be used to convert the
previously used ASCII traces to protobuf equivalents. The appropriate
regression input is updated as part of this patch.
This patch adds a traffic generator to the code base. The generator is
aimed to be used as a black box model to create appropriate use-cases
and benchmarks for the memory system, and in particular the
interconnect and the memory controller.
The traffic generator is a master module, where the actual behaviour
is captured in a state-transition graph where each state generates
some sort of traffic. By constructing a graph it is possible to create
very elaborate scenarios from basic generators. Currencly the set of
generators include idling, linear address sweeps, random address
sequences and playback of traces (recording will be done by the
Communication Monitor in a follow-up patch). At the moment the graph
and the states are described in an ad-hoc line-based format, and in
the future this should be aligned with our used of e.g. the Google
protobufs. Similarly for the traces, the format is currently a
simplistic ad-hoc line-based format that merely serves as a starting
point.
In addition to being used as a black-box model for system components,
the traffic generator is also useful for creating test cases and
regressions for the interconnect and memory system. In future patches
we will use the traffic generator to create DRAM test cases for the
controller model.
The patch following this one adds a basic regressions which also
contains an example configuration script and trace file for playback.
