MSHR 理解

Miss Status Handling Registers
缺失状态保持寄存器
作用：
keep track of outstanding misses
就是保存 misses 状态的轨迹信息的一个表

Each MSHR contains enough state to handle one or more accesses of any type to single memory line。

A memory request that misses in the cache is added to the MSHR table and a fill request is generated if there is no pending request for that cache line.

When a fill response to the fill request is received at the cache, the cache line is inserted into the cache and the corresponding MSHR entry is marked as filled.

Responses for filled MSHR entries are generated at one request per cycle.
Once all the requests waiting at the filled MSHR entry have been responded to and serviced, the MSHR entry is freed.