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Enable the cache to detect contiguous writes and hold on to the MSHR long enough to allow the entire line to be written. If the whole line is written, the MSHR will be sent out as an invalidation requests, as it is part of a whole-line write, i.e. no-fetch-on-write. The cache is also able to switch to a write-no-allocate policy on the actual completion of the writes, and instead use the tempBlock and turn the write operation into a writeback. These policies are all well-known, and described in works such as Jouppi, Cache Write Policies and Performance, vol 21, no 2, ACM, 1993. Change-Id: I19792f2970b3c6798c9b2b493acdd156897284ae Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12907 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.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.