O3: Fix unaligned stores when cache blocked
Review Request #508 - Created Feb. 25, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Ali Saidi | |
| gem5 | |
| Reviewers | |
| Default | |
| ali, gblack, nate, stever | |
O3: Fix unaligned stores when cache blocked Without this change the a store can be issued to the cache multiple times. If this case occurs when the l1 cache is out of mshrs (and thus blocked) the processor will never make forward progress because each cycle it will send a single request using the recently freed mshr and not complete the multipart store. This will continue forever.
