关于gem5预取实验时的一些注意事项

1. 不同版本的gem5开启prefetch的方法可能不同，较新的版本需要在gem5/configs/common/Caches.py的class L2Cache(BaseCache)或者class L1Cache(BaseCache)添加相应的prefetcher


class L2Cache(BaseCache):
    assoc = 8
    block_size = 64
    hit_latency = 20
    response_latency = 20
    mshrs = 20
    tgts_per_mshr = 12
    write_buffers = 8
    #adding the following line
#prefetcher = StridePrefetcher(degree=8, latency=1.0)

之前的gem5版本添加prefetch时，需要在gem5/configs/common/Caches.py的class L2Cache(BaseCache)或者class L1Cache(BaseCache)添加相应的prefetch_policy
class L2Cache(BaseCache):
    assoc = 8
    block_size = 64
    latency = '5ns'
    mshrs = 20
    tgts_per_mshr = 12
    prefetch_policy='tagged'



2. statble_2013_06_16的TaggedPrefetcher有bug

3. 添加预取时，要采用--cpu-type=timing或者--cpu-type=detailed，默认的atomic方式，其预取数据均为0

4. 如何添加自己的prefetcher(以PDFCMPrefetcher为例)
a)在gem5/src/mem/cache/prefetch/Prefetcher.py中添加
class PDFCMPrefetcher(BasePrefetcher):
    type = 'PDFCMPrefetcher'
    cxx_class = 'PDFCMPrefetcher'
    cxx_header = "mem/cache/prefetch/pdfcm.hh"


b)添加相应的gem5/src/mem/cache/prefetch/pdfcm.hh文件和pdfcm.cc文件


c)重新编译