Review Board 2.0.15


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