inorder: add a fetch buffer to fetch unit
Review Request #448 - Created Jan. 25, 2011 and submitted
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| Korey Sewell | |
| gem5 | |
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| ali, gblack, nate, stever | |
inorder: add a fetch buffer to fetch unit Give fetch unit it's own parameterizable fetch buffer to read from. Very inefficient (architecturally and in simulation) to continually fetch at the granularity of the wordsize. As expected, the number of fetch memory requests drops dramatically
