From cff4b13a9b8d0036f9441c150bfd8e1d7bc620e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:06:39 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] wb_arbiter: Early master selection This flips the arbiter muxes on the same cycle as a new request comes in, thus avoiding a cycle latency. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- wishbone_arbiter.vhdl | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wishbone_arbiter.vhdl b/wishbone_arbiter.vhdl index 63b3c4a..cb632bf 100644 --- a/wishbone_arbiter.vhdl +++ b/wishbone_arbiter.vhdl @@ -23,15 +23,23 @@ end wishbone_arbiter; architecture behave of wishbone_arbiter is subtype wb_arb_master_t is integer range 0 to NUM_MASTERS-1; signal candidate, selected : wb_arb_master_t; + signal busy : std_ulogic; begin - wishbone_muxes: process(selected, wb_slave_in, wb_masters_in) + busy <= wb_masters_in(selected).cyc; + + wishbone_muxes: process(selected, candidate, busy, wb_slave_in, wb_masters_in) + variable early_sel : wb_arb_master_t; begin - wb_slave_out <= wb_masters_in(selected); + early_sel := selected; + if busy = '0' then + early_sel := candidate; + end if; + wb_slave_out <= wb_masters_in(early_sel); for i in 0 to NUM_MASTERS-1 loop wb_masters_out(i).dat <= wb_slave_in.dat; - wb_masters_out(i).ack <= wb_slave_in.ack when selected = i else '0'; - wb_masters_out(i).stall <= wb_slave_in.stall when selected = i else '1'; + wb_masters_out(i).ack <= wb_slave_in.ack when early_sel = i else '0'; + wb_masters_out(i).stall <= wb_slave_in.stall when early_sel = i else '1'; end loop; end process; @@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ begin if rising_edge(clk) then if rst = '1' then selected <= 0; - elsif wb_slave_out.cyc = '0' then + elsif busy = '0' then selected <= candidate; end if; end if; -- 2.30.2