"Easy" is in the eye of the beholder, but it is a change that only involves the python config script.
Steve On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Eberle <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to configure the system like that (1 icache only)? > (editing the python script?) > > -- > Eberle. > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That would probably work. Thanks for cluing me in... hadn't thought >> about verification applications. >> >> Steve >> >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Eberle <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What about using only an icache and no dcache? >> > We're experimenting with a new verification technique and want to >> > observe >> > the behavior with and without caches. >> > >> > -- >> > Eberle. >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> O3 can deadlock if it doesn't have independent I&D caches... if the >> >> dcache blocks, the pipeline will continuously replay blocked loads, >> >> which saturates the icache port and will prevent the blocked loads >> >> from issuing if they don't have an independent path. >> >> >> >> (At least that's how I remember it... I'm not sure why we go all the >> >> way back to fetch to replay the blocked loads, but it's something like >> >> that.) >> >> >> >> We never bothered to deal with it because we couldn't think of a >> >> reasonable scenario where anyone would want a detailed CPU model w/o a >> >> reasonably detailed cache hierarchy too. I'm curious what your >> >> motivation is... >> >> >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Eberle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Is there a way to use the O3 CPU without caches, only using the main >> >> > memory? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Eberle. >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > m5-users mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> m5-users mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > m5-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
