Read requests to the memory addresses that are  in the write queue and not
written yet to the memory has to be responded from the write queue. I am
not sure if this answer your question, but seems like this is what you are
observing.

Thanks,
Prathap

On Oct 10, 2017 2:17 AM, "Prakhar Javre" <prakharj2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> A gentle reminder for our last query.  Please have a look.
> [Edit] We printed the command name of packets in writeQueue inside the
> chooseNext function.
>
>        for(auto i = queue.begin(); i != queue.end() ; ++i) {
>             DRAMPacket* dram_pkt = *i;
>        if(!dram_pkt->pkt->req->hasContextId()){
>             inform("command : %s, read: %d, addr: %lu",
> dram_pkt->pkt->cmdString(), dram_pkt->pkt->isRead(), (dram_pkt)->addr);
>         }
>             if (ranks[dram_pkt->rank]->isAvailable()) {
>                 queue.erase(i);
>                 queue.push_front(dram_pkt);
>                 found_packet = true;
>                 break;
>             }
>         }
>
> Turns out that some of the packets in write queue have isRead() true and
> their command is changed to readReq and readResp.
> Can anyone help us in understanding why this peculiar behavior is getting
> observed.
>
> Thanks
> Prakhar Jawre
> IIT Kanpur, India
> -----
>
> Hi guys,
>
> We are implementing a scheme for protection against timing channel attacks
> in DRAM controllers. In that, it is required to choose request (for DRAM
> controller) from a specific core at any particular time. While checking for
> it, we found that a lot of requests are not having contextIDs. We also
> modified cache code to assign contextIDs to writeback requests, but
> apparently, even some of the read requests (and other requests also) are
> not having any contextID.  Can you guys help us in figuring out from which
> place exactly are these requests coming?
>
> System config -
> 2 Cores, L1I, L1D, L2(shared), Prefetch off.
>
> Thanks,
> Prakhar Jawre
> IIT Kanpur, India
>
>
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