[Gems-users] Problems configuring direct cache in Ruby...

[David Bonavila <david.bonavila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm trying to configure a direct cache (associativity = 1) in Ruby, but I get an estrange behaviour.
This is my script:

read-configuration final-2p.check

magic-break-enable

@conf.con0.input = "cd /parsec/\n";

@conf.con0.input = "./bin/parsecmgmt -a run -i simsmall -x gcc-hooks -p bodytrack -n 2\n";


c

cpu-switch-time 1

instruction-fetch-mode instruction-fetch-trace
istc-disable

dstc-disable

load-module ruby

ruby0.setparam g_PROCS_PER_CHIP 2
ruby0.setparam g_NUM_PROCESSORS 2

ruby0.setparam NUMBER_OF_VIRTUAL_NETWORKS 5

ruby0.setparam_str g_REPLACEMENT_POLICY LRU

ruby0.setparam L1_CACHE_ASSOC 1
ruby0.setparam L1_CACHE_NUM_SETS_BITS 8

ruby0.setparam L2_CACHE_ASSOC 1
ruby0.setparam L2_CACHE_NUM_SETS_BITS 12

ruby0.init

load-module opal

opal0.init
opal0.sim-start "output_OBJ1-1_BODYTRACK_256KB_ASSOC1.opal"

opal0.sim-step 100000
opal0.stats

ruby0.dump-stats output_OBJ1-1_BODYTRACK_256KB_ASSOC1.ruby
q

I read in this mailing list that to configure a direct mapped cache I should set g_REPLACEMENT_POLICY to LRU. I did so, but when I run the script it simulates just 6.000 or 7.000 instructions and the simulation stops. No errors or warnings, all seems correct, but when I look at the stats file just 6 or 7 thousand instructions have been simulated.

If I change "L2_CACHE_ASSOC 1" to "L2_CACHE_ASSOC 2" everything works fine, and I have correctly simulated 20 million instruction with this configuration, even with "L1_CACHE_ASSOC" set to 1. So it's a problem with "L2_CACHE_ASSOC" param which is causing me trouble.

How should I configure a direct L2 cache??

Thank you all!!