how to add L2 cache

[ghost]

hello,
how to modify the source code to simulation multi-level cache?

[EtDloaulDaol]

same question......
I don't understand the architecture of Ripes simulator...

[nicholas9237]

要不要開個LINE群交流一下XD

[changfish]

我在想要怎麼給聯絡資訊 放在這邊有點恐怖

[lamblikecode]

我建一個匿名line群看看

[ddww0505]

請問要怎麼加:)

[fankai1oo]

同問，請問要怎麼加入呢?

[mortbopet]

A lot of the infrastructure for this has actually already been done, and is in Ripes already (work in this branch: c151bd7).

Specifically, you should be looking into the CacheInterface and the m_nextLevelCache-related variables. Some stuff is already in there, and some stuff is missing. Basically, what's needed are:

1. A way to add more cache levels in the GUI; one could imagine that multi-level caches are added via. new tabs in the gui (again, refer to the old branch since it already has some of that work https://github.com/mortbopet/Ripes/commits/n_caches/).
2. Once that is done, connecting that up to adding new m_nextLevelCaches, and propagating CacheInterface::access calls in-between caches whenever there is a cache miss.

Regardless, adding this change requires that you'll spend some time digging through and understanding the codebase, since it involves touching both GUI and simulator related things.

Hope that helps your further research!