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Review request for Default.


Description
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Changeset 9036:2e9bf0ce5aca
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sim: Remove FastAlloc. 

While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular 
malloc it isn't thread safe. 
After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 
12% over libc malloc 
when running twolf for ARM. 


Diffs
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  SConstruct 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/base/SConscript 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/base/fast_alloc.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/base/fast_alloc.cc 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/inorder/inorder_dyn_inst.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/testers/memtest/memtest.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/cpu/testers/networktest/networktest.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/dev/dma_device.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/mem/bridge.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/mem/packet.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/mem/request.hh 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/python/swig/event.i 8b9f227b64d8 
  src/sim/eventq.hh 8b9f227b64d8 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1239/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Ali Saidi

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