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When searching for victims of a data expansion a simple approach to make room for the expanded block is to evict every co-allocatable block. This, however, ignores replacement policies and tends to be inefficient. Besides, some cache compaction policies do not allow blocks that changed their compression ratio to be allocated in the same location (e.g., Skewed Compressed Caches), so they must be moved elsewhere. The replacement policy approach asks the replacement policy which block(s) would be the best to evict in order to make room for the expanded block. The other approach, on the other hand, simply evicts all co-allocated entries. In the case the replacement policy selects the superblock of the block being expanded, we must make sure the latter is not evicted/moved by mistake. This patch also allows the user to select which approach they would like to use. Change-Id: Iae57cf26dac7218c51ff0169a5cfcf3d6f8ea28a Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/36577 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.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.