mem-cache: prevent prefetcher from saturating the write buffer
When the write buffer is full, it still has space to store an additional
number of entries (reserve) equal to the number of MSHRs so that if any
of them requires a writeback this can be handled. Even if the slave port
is blocked, a prefetcher can generate new MSHR entries that may lead to
additional writebacks and eventually saturate the reserve space. This is
solved by checking if the cache is blocked for accesses before
prefetching data.
Change-Id: Iaad04dd6786a09eab7afae4a53d1b1299c341f33
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29615
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>