You mean cleanupRefs() function? If yes, then thanks a lot. On 1/4/12, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > >>> Why? >> >> Back to my example, I stated: >> >> init >> (b1,0) (b2,0) (b3,0) (b4,0) and totalRefs=0 >> >> b1 is accessed >> (b1,1) (b2,0) (b3,0) (b4,0) >> >> b3 is accessed >> (b3,1) (b1,1) (b2,0) (b4,0) >> >> b1 is accessed >> (b1,2) (b3,1) (b2,0) (b4,0) >> >> b4 is accessed >> (b4,1) (b1,2) (b3,1) (b2,0) >> >> b2 is accessed >> (b2,1) (b4,1) (b1,2) (b3,1) >> >> >> If the above procedure is exactly what is done in gem5, then: >> >> 1) gem5 return totalRefs=1 because >> totalRefs += blk->refCount >> totalRefs = 0 + 1 (from b3) = 1 >> >> 2) based on the description, "total number of references to valid >> blocks", I think is 5 >> >> >> > > That's because you are looking at the value of totalRefs while the > simulation is running. At the end of the simulation, references for blocks > that are in the cache are added to totalRefs. > > -- > Nilay > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >
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