Description
1 Objectives
The objective is to let you step into gpgpu-sim simulator, and prepare for your
your final project.
3 Description
For this task, you need to implement the load bypass mechanism in gpgpusim
and let all the load instructions in the address range of 0xc0000000-0xc00fffff
bypass the L1 data cache. The benchmark you should use is BFS, and you
should dump out how many load instructions bypassed the L1 data cache in the
following format
Figure 1: Output format
Note that BFS is a multi-kernel benchmark, you should dump out
your results for each kernel
4 Hints
1. Read the code about load store unit in shader.cc
2. Try to understand where the L1 data cache access request are generated.
3. Try to understand where the response of these bypassed load instructions
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are handled in the load store unit.
4. To verify your implementation, you can run the BFS benchmark with unmodified code to get the statistics about L1 data cache access, and then run the
BFS benchmark with your implementation, compare the L1 data cache statistics with the unmodified code. For the correct implementation, you should be
able to see that the L1 data cache access statistics are changed.
5 Submission
1. Write report to describe your implementation and report the counters about
bypassed load instructions for BFS benchmark.
2. Zip the files you modified and your report as unity id.zip. Please make sure
you follow the submission requirements correctly.
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