mem-ruby: Adding a new slicc statement - to not evict locked cachelines
Ruby caches block incoming ports with messages on a locked
address to make sure the line would not be replaced by others.
But they do not check the lock upon capacity/conflict misses.
This change adds a new slicc statement "check_on_cache_probe" which takes
two arguments (mandatoryQueue for the controller, and the line subject
to eviction - i.e. address returned by cacheProbe).
If the line is locked, incoming message is delayed for 1 cycle and the
controller skips this request (i.e. does not trigger an event).
Coherence protocols should be updated accordingly. One use case for MESI
Two Level will be added in a separate change.
Signed-off-by: Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu>
Change-Id: I79ca2d45518de7a4e382b520a11f8e221b0cb803
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/16808
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikant Bharadwaj <srikant.bharadwaj@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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