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Give Rocket priority over DTIM TL port 

The TL port can easily starve the processor, even at only 20% utilization,
because of a bad interaction with the pipeline.  Giving the processor
static priority is OK in practice, since <50% of instructions are loads
and stores in typical workloads.  Even if it executes 100% loads and stores,
it must eventually encounter an I$ miss, taken branch, or exception, so
even malicious code can't permanently starve the TL port.
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Andrew Waterman 2018-02-20 11:23:10 -08:00
parent db35f45bf7
commit 1bac2cbdf8
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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src/main/scala/tile/RocketTile.scala
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@ -105,8 +105,6 @@ class RocketTileModuleImp(outer: RocketTile) extends BaseTileModuleImp(outer)
val uncorrectable = RegInit(Bool(false))
val halt_and_catch_fire = outer.rocketParams.hcfOnUncorrectable.option(IO(Bool(OUTPUT)))
outer.dtim_adapter.foreach { lm => dcachePorts += lm.module.io.dmem }
outer.bus_error_unit.foreach { lm =>
lm.module.io.errors.dcache := outer.dcache.module.io.errors
lm.module.io.errors.icache := outer.frontend.module.io.errors
@ -130,6 +128,9 @@ class RocketTileModuleImp(outer: RocketTile) extends BaseTileModuleImp(outer)
core.io.rocc.busy := roccCore.busy
core.io.rocc.interrupt := roccCore.interrupt
// Rocket has higher priority to DTIM than other TileLink clients
outer.dtim_adapter.foreach { lm => dcachePorts += lm.module.io.dmem }
when(!uncorrectable) { uncorrectable :=
List(outer.frontend.module.io.errors, outer.dcache.module.io.errors)
.flatMap { e => e.uncorrectable.map(_.valid) }