src/mem/cache/prefetch/signature_path_v2.hh

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 /**
  * Implementation of the Signature Path Prefetcher (v2)
  *
  * References:
  *     Path confidence based lookahead prefetching
  *     Jinchun Kim, Seth H. Pugsley, Paul V. Gratz, A. L. Narasimha Reddy,
  *     Chris Wilkerson, and Zeshan Chishti. 2016.
  *     In The 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
  *     Microarchitecture (MICRO-49). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA,
  *     Article 60, 12 pages.
  */

#ifndef __MEM_CACHE_PREFETCH_SIGNATURE_PATH_V2_HH__
#define __MEM_CACHE_PREFETCH_SIGNATURE_PATH_V2_HH__

#include "mem/cache/prefetch/associative_set.hh"
#include "mem/cache/prefetch/signature_path.hh"
#include "mem/packet.hh"

struct SignaturePathPrefetcherV2Params;

class SignaturePathPrefetcherV2 : public SignaturePathPrefetcher
{
    /** Global History Register entry datatype */
    struct GlobalHistoryEntry : public TaggedEntry
    {
        signature_t signature;
        double confidence;
        stride_t lastBlock;
        stride_t delta;
        GlobalHistoryEntry() : signature(0), confidence(0.0), lastBlock(0),
                               delta(0) {}
    };
    /** Global History Register */
    AssociativeSet<GlobalHistoryEntry> globalHistoryRegister;

    double calculateLookaheadConfidence(PatternEntry const &sig,
            PatternStrideEntry const &lookahead) const override;

    double calculatePrefetchConfidence(PatternEntry const &sig,
            PatternStrideEntry const &lookahead) const override;

    void increasePatternEntryCounter(PatternEntry &pattern_entry,
            PatternStrideEntry &pstride_entry) override;

    void handleSignatureTableMiss(stride_t current_block,
            signature_t &new_signature, double &new_conf,
            stride_t &new_stride) override;

    /**
     * In this version of the Signature Path Prefetcher, there is no auxiliary
     * prefetcher, so this function does not perform any actions.
     */
    void auxiliaryPrefetcher(Addr ppn, stride_t current_block, bool is_secure,
            std::vector<AddrPriority> &addresses) override
    {}

    virtual void handlePageCrossingLookahead(signature_t signature,
            stride_t last_offset, stride_t delta, double path_confidence)
            override;

  public:
    SignaturePathPrefetcherV2(const SignaturePathPrefetcherV2Params* p);
    ~SignaturePathPrefetcherV2() {}
};

#endif//__MEM_CACHE_PREFETCH_SIGNATURE_PATH_V2_HH__