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Garnet utilizes round robin policy to select a VC for transmission ar Network Interface and Routers. The current logic for round robin is only fair if all the virtual networks are active at a given router. If the router or network interface is not receiving traffic in from any vnet then the priority is always taken up by the next vnet in numerically (or loops back to 0). This fix changes the way we perform round robin arbitration. When a VC is selected in a cycle, the round robin pointer is set to the VC next to it and is iterated from there on. If any VC does not have a flit in a given cycle, it will lose its turn until the next round. At maximum traffic this will model round robin correctly even if a certain VNET is not active at that unit. Change-Id: I9bf805221054f9f25bee14b57ff521f4ce4ca980 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16688 Reviewed-by: Jieming Yin <Jieming.Yin@amd.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.