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Ruby: Add new object called WireBuffer to mimic a Wire.

Review Request #627 - Created March 31, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Lisa Hsu
gem5
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ali, gblack, nate, stever
Ruby: Add new object called WireBuffer to mimic a Wire.
This is a substitute for MessageBuffers between controllers where you don't
want messages to actually go through the Network, because requests/responses can
always get reordered wrt to one another (even if you turn off Randomization and turn on Ordered)
because you are, after all, going through a network with contention. For systems where you model
multiple controllers that are very tightly coupled and do not actually go through a network,
it is a pain to have to write a coherence protocol to account for mixed up request/response orderings
despite the fact that it's completely unrealistic.  This is *not* meant as a substitute for real
MessageBuffers when messages do in fact go over a network.