> On 2011-12-12 12:45:52, Geoffrey Blake wrote:
> > Made a derived class FunctionalPacket to enable partial functional reads to 
> > not induce more overhead in the Packet class as requested by Steve, Nate 
> > and Ali.  Modified blobHelper() in src/mem/port.cc to use FunctionalPacket 
> > instead of Packet.  Over areas could use functional packets 
> > (src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc and src/cpu/testers/memtest/memtest.cc) 
> > but have left them alone because they do not really need to be fixed.  
> > Tested by compiling and running using the CheckerCPU that exercises this 
> > code path heavily.  No bugs found.

Any arguments?


- Ali


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On 2011-12-12 12:37:51, Geoffrey Blake wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-12-12 12:37:51)
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> 
> Review request for Default, Ali Saidi, Gabe Black, Steve Reinhardt, and 
> Nathan Binkert.
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> 
> Summary
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> 
> Packet: Enable functional reads of partial data to packet class
> 
> This patch fixes a long standing defficiency in the packet class where
> it was unable to handle finding data that partially satisfied a request.
> 
> This splits out changes made to the packet class in the checkercpu patch as 
> requested by Ali. 
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/mem/SConscript c1ab57ea8805 
>   src/mem/functional_packet.hh PRE-CREATION 
>   src/mem/functional_packet.cc PRE-CREATION 
>   src/mem/packet.hh c1ab57ea8805 
>   src/mem/packet.cc c1ab57ea8805 
>   src/mem/port.hh c1ab57ea8805 
>   src/mem/port.cc c1ab57ea8805 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/915/diff
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Compiles. No functional changes made from CheckerCPU patch to this patch for 
> packet class, and CheckerCPU fully exercised this code path during testing.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geoffrey
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