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Messages may be enqueued and be ready in the same cycle. Using this feature may introduce nondeterminism in the protocol and should be used in specific cases. A case study is to avoid needing an additional cycle for internal protocol triggers (e.g. the All_Acks event in src/mem/ruby/protocol/MOESI_CMP_directory-L2cache.sm). To mitigate modeling mistakes, the 'allow_zero_latency' parameter must be set for a MessageBuffer where this behavior is acceptable. This changes also updates the Consumer to schedule events according to this new behavior. The original implementation would not schedule a new wakeup event if the wakeup for the Consumer had already been executed in that cycle. Additional authors: - Tuan Ta <tuan.ta2@arm.com> Change-Id: Ib194e7b4b4ee4b06da1baea17c0eb743f650dfdd Signed-off-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/31255 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.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/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. 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/documentation/general_docs/building 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 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/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. 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. If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.