Implemented a basic instruction based strided prefetcher.

.gitignore

@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@
 stats.txt
 build/
 output/
+.dir-locals.el

src/prefetcher.cc

@@ -1,36 +1,47 @@
-/*
- * A sample prefetcher which does sequential one-block lookahead.
- * This means that the prefetcher fetches the next block _after_ the one that
- * was just accessed. It also ignores requests to blocks already in the cache.
- */
-
 #include "interface.hh"
+#include <map>
 
+typedef struct Stride {
+  /* list of strides */
+  unsigned stride_distance;
+  unsigned last_addr;
+  unsigned successive_misses;
+} Stride;
 
-void prefetch_init(void)
-{
-    /* Called before any calls to prefetch_access. */
-    /* This is the place to initialize data structures. */
+typedef std::map<Addr, Stride> StrideMap;
+static StrideMap stride_map;
 
-    //DPRINTF(HWPrefetch, "Initialized sequential-on-access prefetcher\n");
+/* naive stride distance, takes the stride between the previous two */
+void set_stride(Addr mem_addr, Stride *stride) {
+  stride->stride_distance = mem_addr - stride->last_addr;
+  stride->last_addr = mem_addr;
 }
 
-void prefetch_access(AccessStat stat)
-{
-    /* pf_addr is now an address within the _next_ cache block */
-    Addr pf_addr = stat.mem_addr + BLOCK_SIZE;
+void prefetch_init(void) {
+  /* Called before any calls to prefetch_access. */
+  /* This is the place to initialize data structures. */
+}
 
-    /*
-     * Issue a prefetch request if a demand miss occured,
-     * and the block is not already in cache.
-     */
-    if (stat.miss && !in_cache(pf_addr)) {
-        issue_prefetch(pf_addr);
+void prefetch_access(AccessStat stat) {
+  // never loaded from here before
+  // check if stride_map[stat.pc] is set.
+  if (stride_map.find(stat.pc) == stride_map.end()) {
+    // pf_addr += BLOCK_SIZE; // just load next block, it's a good guess.
+    // basically means stride of 1.
+    stride_map[stat.pc].last_addr = stat.mem_addr;
+  } else {
+    set_stride(stat.mem_addr, &stride_map[stat.pc]);
+    DPRINTF(HWPrefetch, "stride distance: %d\n",
+            stride_map[stat.pc].stride_distance);
+    Addr pf_addr = stat.mem_addr + stride_map[stat.pc].stride_distance;
+    if (!in_cache(pf_addr) && pf_addr < MAX_PHYS_MEM_ADDR) {
+      issue_prefetch(pf_addr);
     }
+  }
 }
 
 void prefetch_complete(Addr addr) {
-    /*
-     * Called when a block requested by the prefetcher has been loaded.
-     */
+  /*
+   * Called when a block requested by the prefetcher has been loaded.
+   */
 }