Re: [Gems-users] L2 banks in CMP protocol

["Mike Marty" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The latency is determined by the network topology and the latency/bandwidth
of the links.

You can specify this manually using a FILE_SPECIFIED network to precisely
specify the access latency of remote banks.

--Mike

> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I am using MSI_MOSI_CMP_directory protocol and one question has been
> bothering
> me for a while. I've asked about this question before: Although in CMP
> protocols, all processors share one L2 cache, this L2 cache can be divided
> in
> banks; so when adding L2 access latency does GEMS take into consideration
> the
> distance between the request processor and the respond L2 cache bank? The
> answer I got from the list is: yes. But exactly how do we specify the
> access
> latency of L2 banks on one chip?
> 
> TIA!!
> Lei
> 
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