litedram: Defer clearing of tags & valids to improve timing

Currently, there's a huge mux gathering the output of all the PLRUs
to select the victim way on cache miss. This is fed combinationally
into the clearing of the valid and tags.

In order to help timing, let's store it instead and perform the
clearing on the next cycle. The L2 doesn't respond to requests
when not in IDLE state so this should have no negative effects.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
pull/198/head
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5 years ago
parent 7192ee825f
commit b23fd6c5f1

@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ architecture behaviour of litedram_wrapper is


-- Cache state machine -- Cache state machine
type state_t is (IDLE, -- Normal load hit processing type state_t is (IDLE, -- Normal load hit processing
REFILL_CLR_TAG, -- Cache refill clear tag
REFILL_WAIT_ACK); -- Cache refill wait ack REFILL_WAIT_ACK); -- Cache refill wait ack
signal state : state_t; signal state : state_t;


@ -674,7 +675,7 @@ begin
when others => when others =>
wb_out.stall <= '0'; wb_out.stall <= '0';
end case; end case;
when REFILL_WAIT_ACK => when others =>
wb_out.stall <= '1'; wb_out.stall <= '1';
end case; end case;
@ -859,7 +860,6 @@ begin
refill_machine : process(system_clk) refill_machine : process(system_clk)
variable tagset : cache_tags_set_t; variable tagset : cache_tags_set_t;
variable cmds_done : boolean; variable cmds_done : boolean;
variable replace_way : way_t;
variable wait_qdrain : boolean; variable wait_qdrain : boolean;
begin begin
if rising_edge(system_clk) then if rising_edge(system_clk) then
@ -887,23 +887,10 @@ begin
-- We need to read a cache line -- We need to read a cache line
if req_op = OP_LOAD_MISS and not wait_qdrain then if req_op = OP_LOAD_MISS and not wait_qdrain then
-- Grab way to replace -- Grab way to replace
replace_way := to_integer(unsigned(plru_victim(req_index))); refill_way <= to_integer(unsigned(plru_victim(req_index)));

-- Force misses on that way while refilling that line
cache_valids(req_index)(replace_way) <= '0';

-- Store new tag in selected way
for i in 0 to NUM_WAYS-1 loop
if i = replace_way then
tagset := cache_tags(req_index);
write_tag(i, tagset, req_tag);
cache_tags(req_index) <= tagset;
end if;
end loop;


-- Keep track of our index and way for subsequent stores -- Keep track of our index and way for subsequent stores
refill_index <= req_index; refill_index <= req_index;
refill_way <= replace_way;
refill_row <= get_row(req_laddr); refill_row <= get_row(req_laddr);


-- Prep for first DRAM read -- Prep for first DRAM read
@ -921,10 +908,27 @@ begin
end if; end if;


-- Track that we had one request sent -- Track that we had one request sent
state <= REFILL_CLR_TAG;
end if;

when REFILL_CLR_TAG | REFILL_WAIT_ACK =>

-- Delayed tag clearing to help timing on PLRU output
if state = REFILL_CLR_TAG then
-- Force misses on that way while refilling that line
cache_valids(req_index)(refill_way) <= '0';

-- Store new tag in selected way
for i in 0 to NUM_WAYS-1 loop
if i = refill_way then
tagset := cache_tags(req_index);
write_tag(i, tagset, req_tag);
cache_tags(req_index) <= tagset;
end if;
end loop;
state <= REFILL_WAIT_ACK; state <= REFILL_WAIT_ACK;
end if; end if;


when REFILL_WAIT_ACK =>
-- Commands are all sent if user_port0_cmd_valid is 0 -- Commands are all sent if user_port0_cmd_valid is 0
cmds_done := refill_cmd_valid = '0'; cmds_done := refill_cmd_valid = '0';



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