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antonblanchard.microwatt/fetch1.vhdl
Paul Mackerras 62b24a8dae icache: Improve latencies when reloading cache lines
The icache can now detect a hit on a line being refilled from memory,
as we have an array of individual valid bits per row for the line
that is currently being loaded.  This enables the request that
initiated the refill to be satisfied earlier, and also enables
following requests to the same cache line to be satisfied before the
line is completely refilled.  Furthermore, the refill now starts
at the row that is needed.  This should reduce the latency for an
icache miss.

We now get a 'sequential' indication from fetch1, and use that to know
when we can deliver an instruction word using the other half of the
64-bit doubleword that was read last cycle.  This doesn't make much
difference at the moment, but it frees up cycles where we could test
whether the next line is present in the cache so that we could
prefetch it if not.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2020-06-13 20:09:06 +10:00

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4.2 KiB
VHDL

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;
library work;
use work.common.all;
entity fetch1 is
generic(
RESET_ADDRESS : std_logic_vector(63 downto 0) := (others => '0');
ALT_RESET_ADDRESS : std_logic_vector(63 downto 0) := (others => '0')
);
port(
clk : in std_ulogic;
rst : in std_ulogic;
-- Control inputs:
stall_in : in std_ulogic;
flush_in : in std_ulogic;
stop_in : in std_ulogic;
alt_reset_in : in std_ulogic;
-- redirect from execution unit
e_in : in Execute1ToFetch1Type;
-- Request to icache
i_out : out Fetch1ToIcacheType;
-- outputs to logger
log_out : out std_ulogic_vector(42 downto 0)
);
end entity fetch1;
architecture behaviour of fetch1 is
type stop_state_t is (RUNNING, STOPPED, RESTARTING);
type reg_internal_t is record
stop_state: stop_state_t;
end record;
signal r, r_next : Fetch1ToIcacheType;
signal r_int, r_next_int : reg_internal_t;
signal log_nia : std_ulogic_vector(42 downto 0);
begin
regs : process(clk)
begin
if rising_edge(clk) then
log_nia <= r.nia(63) & r.nia(43 downto 2);
if r /= r_next then
report "fetch1 rst:" & std_ulogic'image(rst) &
" IR:" & std_ulogic'image(e_in.virt_mode) &
" P:" & std_ulogic'image(e_in.priv_mode) &
" R:" & std_ulogic'image(e_in.redirect) &
" S:" & std_ulogic'image(stall_in) &
" T:" & std_ulogic'image(stop_in) &
" nia:" & to_hstring(r_next.nia) &
" SM:" & std_ulogic'image(r_next.stop_mark);
end if;
r <= r_next;
r_int <= r_next_int;
end if;
end process;
log_out <= log_nia;
comb : process(all)
variable v : Fetch1ToIcacheType;
variable v_int : reg_internal_t;
variable increment : boolean;
begin
v := r;
v_int := r_int;
v.sequential := '0';
if rst = '1' then
if alt_reset_in = '1' then
v.nia := ALT_RESET_ADDRESS;
else
v.nia := RESET_ADDRESS;
end if;
v.virt_mode := '0';
v.priv_mode := '1';
v_int.stop_state := RUNNING;
elsif e_in.redirect = '1' then
v.nia := e_in.redirect_nia;
v.virt_mode := e_in.virt_mode;
v.priv_mode := e_in.priv_mode;
elsif stall_in = '0' then
-- For debug stop/step to work properly we need a little bit of
-- trickery here. If we just stop incrementing and send stop marks
-- when stop_in is set, then we'll increment on the cycle it clears
-- and end up never executing the instruction we were stopped on.
--
-- Avoid this along with the opposite issue when stepping (stop is
-- cleared for only one cycle) is handled by the state machine below
--
-- By default, increment addresses
increment := true;
case v_int.stop_state is
when RUNNING =>
-- If we are running and stop_in is set, then stop incrementing,
-- we are now stopped.
if stop_in = '1' then
increment := false;
v_int.stop_state := STOPPED;
end if;
when STOPPED =>
-- When stopped, never increment. If stop is cleared, go to state
-- "restarting" but still don't increment that cycle. stop_in is
-- now 0 so we'll send the NIA down without a stop mark.
increment := false;
if stop_in = '0' then
v_int.stop_state := RESTARTING;
end if;
when RESTARTING =>
-- We have just sent the NIA down, we can start incrementing again.
-- If stop_in is still not set, go back to running normally.
-- If stop_in is set again (that was a one-cycle "step"), go
-- back to "stopped" state which means we'll stop incrementing
-- on the next cycle. This ensures we increment the PC once after
-- sending one instruction without a stop mark. Since stop_in is
-- now set, the new PC will be sent with a stop mark and thus not
-- executed.
if stop_in = '0' then
v_int.stop_state := RUNNING;
else
v_int.stop_state := STOPPED;
end if;
end case;
if increment then
v.nia := std_logic_vector(unsigned(v.nia) + 4);
v.sequential := '1';
end if;
end if;
v.req := not rst;
v.stop_mark := stop_in;
r_next <= v;
r_next_int <= v_int;
-- Update outputs to the icache
i_out <= r;
end process;
end architecture behaviour;