Benjamin Herrenschmidt 174378b190 dcache: Introduce an extra cycle latency to make timing ...

This makes the BRAMs use an output buffer, introducing an extra
cycle latency. Without this, Vivado won't make timing at 100Mhz.

We stash all the necessary response data in delayed latches, the
extra cycle is NOT a state in the state machine, thus it's fully
pipelined and doesn't involve stalling.

This introduces an extra non-pipelined cycle for loads with update
to avoid collision on the writeback output between the now delayed
load data and the register update. We could avoid it by moving
the register update in the pipeline bubble created by the extra
update state, but it's a bit trickier, so I leave that for a latter
optimization.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

2019-10-23 12:30:49 +11:00

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