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(Updated July 21, 2014, 6:51 p.m.)


Review request for Default.


Repository: gem5


Description (updated)
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Changeset 10259:4bb098c2c0d8
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arm: make the PseudoLRU tags the default for the O3_ARM_v7aL2

the Cortex-A15 has a random replacement policy for its L2 cache. see the
Cortex-A15 Technical Reference Manual 1.7 About the L2 memory system. this
patch makes the PseudoLRU tags the default for the ARM O3 CPU's L2 cache.


Diffs (updated)
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  configs/common/O3_ARM_v7a.py 23384aa97d8533f6e3f812d015dccaab3c0267af 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2173/diff/


Testing
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Used the memory latency benchmark from LMBench to evaluate the accuracy of 
gem5's memory system vs. a VExpress board, with this patch the accuracy is much 
improved. See figure 4a. here:

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier/papers/ispass_2014.pdf


Thanks,

Anthony Gutierrez

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