sim-power: Addition of PowerDomains
PowerDomains group multiple objects together to regulate their power
state. There are 2 types of objects in a PowerDomain: leaders and
followers. The power state of a PowerDomain is the most performant
power state of any of the leaders. The power state of the followers is
determined by the power state of the PowerDomain they belong to: they
need to be in a power state which is more or equally performant to the
power state of the PowerDomain.
Leaders can be ClockedObjects or other PowerDomains. Followers can
only be ClockedObjects. PowerDomains can be be nested but a
PowerDomain can only be a leader of another PowerDomain, NOT a
follower. PowerDomains are not present in the hierarchy by default,
the user needs to create and configure them in the configuration file.
The user can add an hierachy by setting the led_by parameter. gem5
will then create leaders and followers for each domain and calculate
the allowed power states for the domain.
Objects in a PowerDomain need to have at least the ON state in the
possible_states.
An example of a powerDomain config is:
pd = PowerDomain()
cpu0 = BaseCPU()
cpu1 = BaseCPU()
shared_cache = BaseCache()
cache.power_state.led_by = pd
pd.led_by = [cpu0, cpu1]
This will create a PowerDomain, where the CPUs determine their own
power states and the shared cache (via the PowerDomain) follows those
power states (when possible).
Change-Id: I4c4cd01f06d45476c6e0fb2afeb778613733e2ff
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28051
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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