There is a long timing path to generate the ack signal from
the L2 cache as it's fully combinational for stores, including
signals coming from litedram.
Instead, pipeline the store acks. This will introduce a cycle
latency but should improve timing. Also the core will eventually
be smart enough not to wait for store acks to complete them anyway.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This breaks the long stall signal coming back to the processor
and helps improve overall timing.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently, there's a huge mux gathering the output of all the PLRUs
to select the victim way on cache miss. This is fed combinationally
into the clearing of the valid and tags.
In order to help timing, let's store it instead and perform the
clearing on the next cycle. The L2 doesn't respond to requests
when not in IDLE state so this should have no negative effects.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We still had some wires bringing an extra serial port out of
litedram for the built-in riscv processor. This is all gone now
so take them out.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This increases the number of L2 lines from 32 to 64. The BRAM usage is the
same as they were only half used. There's an increase in LUTs and registers
due to the extra tags and valid bits, but none of it should be in a
space constrained or critical timing path.
We could make it wider instead (256 bytes lines) which would reduce usage
instead, but this increases the latency by 8 cycles. Something to consider
once the L2 is capable of early response on miss and starting reloads
from any point in a line.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Support for this has bitrotted and would require refactoring of L2 to
be brought back. It's also not really needed anymore now that we ship
pre-generated litedram and that LiteX supports what we do.
So take it out, which simplifies some of the scripts as well. This also
fixes up CSR alignment the sim model.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt