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perf(MainPipe, Directory): Move Directory Write to s4

Open Ma-YX opened this issue 4 months ago • 0 comments

To reduce directory write conflicts and consecutive stalls caused by mcp2, the directory write is moved from S3 to S4.

Specific changes:

  1. in MainPipe, shift the meta and tag write signals to S4
  2. in MainPipe, add same-set stall checks at S3 for the C channel and related paths
  3. in Directory, defer the replacement-policy update to S4

Stalls caused by same-set conflicts and MSHR-full conditions increased, while the others decreased to some extent; overall, the L2 stall count is trending downward (though some INT benchmarks, such as astar, go up).

Ma-YX avatar Aug 25 '25 05:08 Ma-YX