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mem: Remove the GHB prefetcher from the source tree

Review Request #2375 - Created Sept. 10, 2014 and submitted

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Andreas Hansson
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Changeset 10368:0e6691eee5f6
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mem: Remove the GHB prefetcher from the source tree

There are two primary issues with this code which make it deserving of deletion.

1) GHB is a way to structure a prefetcher, not a definitive type of prefetcher
2) This prefetcher isn't even structured like a GHB prefetcher.
   It's basically a worse version of the stride prefetcher.

It primarily serves to confuse new gem5 users and most functionality is already
present in the stride prefetcher.

   
Review request changed
Updated (Sept. 20, 2014, 2:36 p.m.)

Status: Closed (submitted)