Hi Nick,

The generic topologies in Ruby (e.g., the ones in configs/topologies) were
always *very brittle*. This was especially so for topologies like Mesh
where the topology is tightly coupled to the number of each type of
controller (and even the coherence protocol!).

Therefore, in the stdlib we have taken the approach that we will not
provide generic topologies. Instead, we will provide specific instances of
topologies paired with a protocol. I.e., we will provide "prebuilt" cache
hierarchies. For example, the Octopi cache:
gem5/src/python/gem5/components/cachehierarchies/ruby/caches/prebuilt/octopi_cache/octopi.py
at stable · gem5/gem5 · GitHub
<https://github.com/gem5/gem5/blob/stable/src/python/gem5/components/cachehierarchies/ruby/caches/prebuilt/octopi_cache/octopi.py#L58>

To answer your question directly, the correct way to demonstrate garnet
pt2pt or mesh would be to write your own cache hierarchy. Note that you
don't need to put it in src/ or recompile gem5. Because it's pure python
using the gem5 libraries you can simply write a python file and use it. If
you create a `CacheHierarchy` then it will likely be compatible with all of
our boards including both the test board (used with traffic generators) and
all of the ISAs.

Cheers,
Jason

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM Beser, Nicholas D. via gem5-users <
gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:

> I have been looking over the example of Garnet in the 2024 bootcamp. The
> Ring-garnet does work as advertised. I was wondering if GarnetPt2Pt and
> GarnetMesh still works. The example from the older 2022 bootcamp used
> NULL/gem5.opt, but while the code is still in the materials/archive, the
> commands don’t seem to work. The examples in 2024 seem to use
> ALL_CHI/gem5.opt and not NULL.
>
>
>
> What is the right way to demonstrate Garnet Pt2Pt and Garnet_mesh?
>
>
>
> Nick
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