cpu: Adjust for trace offset and fix stats

This change subtracts the time offset present in the trace from
all the event times when nodes and request are sent so that the
replay starts immediately when the simulation starts. This makes
the stats accurate when the time offset in traces is large, for
example when traces are generated in the middle of a workload
execution. It also solves the problem of unnecessary DRAM
refresh events that would keep occuring during the large time
offset before even a single request is replayed into the system.

Change-Id: Ie0898842615def867ffd5c219948386d952af7f7
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

diff --git a/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.cc b/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.cc
index 42620a177500868af87179c571b7bb90c7657b8a..ef0b252ed5dee0006801786199aa4491f4e76dd5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.cc
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ TraceCPU::TraceCPU(TraceCPUParams *params)
         icacheNextEvent(this),
         dcacheNextEvent(this),
         oneTraceComplete(false),
-        firstFetchTick(0),
+        traceOffset(0),
         execCompleteEvent(nullptr)
 {
     // Increment static counter for number of Trace CPUs.
@@ -116,22 +116,31 @@ TraceCPU::init()
 
     BaseCPU::init();
 
-    // Get the send tick of the first instruction read request and schedule
-    // icacheNextEvent at that tick.
+    // Get the send tick of the first instruction read request
     Tick first_icache_tick = icacheGen.init();
-    schedule(icacheNextEvent, first_icache_tick);
 
-    // Get the send tick of the first data read/write request and schedule
-    // dcacheNextEvent at that tick.
+    // Get the send tick of the first data read/write request
     Tick first_dcache_tick = dcacheGen.init();
-    schedule(dcacheNextEvent, first_dcache_tick);
+
+    // Set the trace offset as the minimum of that in both traces
+    traceOffset = std::min(first_icache_tick, first_dcache_tick);
+    inform("%s: Time offset (tick) found as min of both traces is %lli.\n",
+            name(), traceOffset);
+
+    // Schedule next icache and dcache event by subtracting the offset
+    schedule(icacheNextEvent, first_icache_tick - traceOffset);
+    schedule(dcacheNextEvent, first_dcache_tick - traceOffset);
+
+    // Adjust the trace offset for the dcache generator's ready nodes
+    // We don't need to do this for the icache generator as it will
+    // send its first request at the first event and schedule subsequent
+    // events using a relative tick delta
+    dcacheGen.adjustInitTraceOffset(traceOffset);
 
     // The static counter for number of Trace CPUs is correctly set at this
     // point so create an event and pass it.
     execCompleteEvent = new CountedExitEvent("end of all traces reached.",
                                                 numTraceCPUs);
-    // Save the first fetch request tick to dump it as tickOffset
-    firstFetchTick = first_icache_tick;
 }
 
 void
@@ -164,6 +173,9 @@ TraceCPU::schedDcacheNext()
 {
     DPRINTF(TraceCPUData, "DcacheGen event.\n");
 
+    // Update stat for numCycles
+    numCycles = clockEdge() / clockPeriod();
+
     dcacheGen.execute();
     if (dcacheGen.isExecComplete()) {
         checkAndSchedExitEvent();
@@ -179,11 +191,6 @@ TraceCPU::checkAndSchedExitEvent()
         // Schedule event to indicate execution is complete as both
         // instruction and data access traces have been played back.
         inform("%s: Execution complete.\n", name());
-
-        // Record stats which are computed at the end of simulation
-        tickOffset = firstFetchTick;
-        numCycles = (clockEdge() - firstFetchTick) / clockPeriod();
-        numOps = dcacheGen.getMicroOpCount();
         schedule(*execCompleteEvent, curTick());
     }
 }
@@ -216,11 +223,6 @@ TraceCPU::regStats()
     ;
     cpi = numCycles/numOps;
 
-    tickOffset
-    .name(name() + ".tickOffset")
-    .desc("The first execution tick for the root node of elastic traces")
-    ;
-
     icacheGen.regStats();
     dcacheGen.regStats();
 }
@@ -311,6 +313,13 @@ TraceCPU::ElasticDataGen::init()
     return (free_itr->execTick);
 }
 
+void
+TraceCPU::ElasticDataGen::adjustInitTraceOffset(Tick& offset) {
+    for (auto& free_node : readyList) {
+        free_node.execTick -= offset;
+    }
+}
+
 void
 TraceCPU::ElasticDataGen::exit()
 {
@@ -534,6 +543,8 @@ TraceCPU::ElasticDataGen::execute()
             hwResource.release(node_ptr);
             // clear the dynamically allocated set of dependents
             (node_ptr->dependents).clear();
+            // Update the stat for numOps simulated
+            owner.updateNumOps(node_ptr->robNum);
             // delete node
             delete node_ptr;
             // remove from graph
@@ -736,6 +747,8 @@ TraceCPU::ElasticDataGen::completeMemAccess(PacketPtr pkt)
 
         // clear the dynamically allocated set of dependents
         (node_ptr->dependents).clear();
+        // Update the stat for numOps completed
+        owner.updateNumOps(node_ptr->robNum);
         // delete node
         delete node_ptr;
         // remove from graph

diff --git a/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.hh b/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.hh
index 2c7168d51418f46c5968f2b965fc2a46ef8794c8..7da59de97a7000ee4bb46b02806be040bb7cffb9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.hh
+++ b/src/cpu/trace/trace_cpu.hh
@@ -136,10 +136,9 @@
  * Strictly-ordered requests are skipped and the dependencies on such requests
  * are handled by simply marking them complete immediately.
  *
- * The simulated seconds can be calculated as the difference between the
- * final_tick stat and the tickOffset stat. A CountedExitEvent that contains a
- * static int belonging to the Trace CPU class as a down counter is used to
- * implement multi Trace CPU simulation exit.
+ * A CountedExitEvent that contains a static int belonging to the Trace CPU
+ * class as a down counter is used to implement multi Trace CPU simulation
+ * exit.
  */
 
 class TraceCPU : public BaseCPU
@@ -171,9 +170,15 @@ class TraceCPU : public BaseCPU
      */
     Counter totalOps() const
     {
-        return dcacheGen.getMicroOpCount();
+        return numOps.value();
     }
 
+    /*
+     * Set the no. of ops when elastic data generator completes executing a
+     * node.
+     */
+    void updateNumOps(uint64_t rob_num) { numOps = rob_num; }
+
     /* Pure virtual function in BaseCPU. Do nothing. */
     void wakeup(ThreadID tid = 0)
     {
@@ -876,6 +881,14 @@ class TraceCPU : public BaseCPU
          */
         Tick init();
 
+        /**
+         * Adjust traceOffset based on what TraceCPU init() determines on
+         * comparing the offsets in the fetch request and elastic traces.
+         *
+         * @param trace_offset trace offset set by comparing both traces
+         */
+        void adjustInitTraceOffset(Tick& offset);
+
         /** Returns name of the ElasticDataGen instance. */
         const std::string& name() const { return genName; }
 
@@ -1081,10 +1094,12 @@ class TraceCPU : public BaseCPU
     bool oneTraceComplete;
 
     /**
-     * This is stores the tick of the first instruction fetch request
-     * which is later used for dumping the tickOffset stat.
+     * This stores the time offset in the trace, which is taken away from
+     * the ready times of requests. This is specially useful because the time
+     * offset can be very large if the traces are generated from the middle of
+     * a program.
      */
-    Tick firstFetchTick;
+    Tick traceOffset;
 
     /**
      * Number of Trace CPUs in the system used as a shared variable and passed
@@ -1109,13 +1124,6 @@ class TraceCPU : public BaseCPU
     /** Stat for the CPI. This is really cycles per micro-op and not inst. */
     Stats::Formula cpi;
 
-    /**
-     * The first execution tick is dumped as a stat so that the simulated
-     * seconds for a trace replay can be calculated as a difference between the
-     * final_tick stat and the tickOffset stat
-     */
-    Stats::Scalar tickOffset;
-
   public:
 
     /** Used to get a reference to the icache port. */