The current MESI_Two_Level protocol's L1 caches updates the MRU information twice per request on misses -- once when the request reaches Ruby and once when the miss is returned from another level of the memory hierarchy.
Although this approach does not cause any correctness bugs for replacement policies like LRU since this request is the LRU in both cases, it does not work correctly for other policies like SecondChance and LFU, where updating the information twice (for misses) causes them to devolve to LRU.
Note that this was not directly a problem with Ruby previously, because it only supported LRU-based policies that were unaffected by this. However, with the integration of 20879 Ruby now uses the same replacement policies as Classic (which has additional, non-LRU based replacement policies).
This patch resolves this problem by not updating the MRU information a second time for the misses. It has been tested and validated with the replacement policy tests.
Change-Id: I9e7e96a9d6c09f3d6b7daae7115ef091ac3bdc08
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/64371
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
The cacheProbe() function will return the victim entry, and it gets
called for multiple times in trigger function in a single miss. This
will cause a problem when we try to add a new replacement policy to
the Ruby system. Certain policy, like RRIP, will modify the block
information every time the getVictim() function gets called. To
prevent future problems, we need to store the victim entry, so that
we only call it once in one miss.
Change-Id: Ic5ca05f789d9bbfb963b8e993ef707020f243702
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21099
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
