On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jacob Potter<jdpotter@google.com> wrote:
> Here's the first part of the dcache rewrite and stack caching changes
> I've been working on. This patch re-implements the cache using a splay
> tree, along with a linked list for an oldest-first replacement policy.
> It also makes the cache write-through, rather than the old
> partially-implemented writeback functionality.
>
> I couldn't find a good place to store separate cache structures for
> different inferiors; I think the answer is to just clear the cache
> when current_target is changed, which I'll do in the second patch.
>
> - Jacob
>
> 2009-07-07  Jacob Potter  <jdpotter@google.com>
>
>        * dcache.c (ENTRY_INVALID, ENTRY_VALID, ENTRY_DIRTY): Delete.
>        (state_chars): Delete.
>        (struct dcache_block): Clean up; remove state and anydirty fields.
>        (struct dcache_struct): Redefine as a splay tree and linked list.
>        (dcache_writeback): Remove declaration.
>        (dcache_invalidate, dcache_hit): Rewrite for new cache structure.
>        (dcache_write_line): Delete.
>        (dcache_read_line, dcache_alloc): Rewrite for new cache structure.
>        (dcache_writeback): Delete.
>        (dcache_peek_byte): Clean up; remove "invalid" state check.
>        (dcache_poke_byte): Rewrite for new cache structure; clarify comment.
>        (dcache_splay_tree_compare): New function.
>        (dcache_init, dcache_free): Rewrite for new cache structure.
>        (dcache_xfer_memory): Rewrite for new write-through cache structure.
>        (dcache_update, dcache_print_line): New functions.
>        (dcache_info): Rewrite for new cache structure.
>        (_initialize_dcache): Rewrite for new cache structure.
>        * dcache.h (dcache_xfer_memory): Update definition.
>        (dcache_update, dcache_stack_enabled_p): Declare.
>        * target.c (memory_xfer_partial): Update calls to dcache_xfer_memory.
>

Hi.

I checked in a sligntly modified version of this patch.
The actual stack caching patch is still todo.

2009-08-20  Jacob Potter  <jdpotter@google.com>

        Replace dcache with splay tree.
        Remove partially implemented writeback support.
        * dcache.c: Include splay-tree.h.
        (LINE_SIZE_POWER): Change from 5 to 6.
        (DCACHE_SIZE): Change from 64 to 4096.
        (ENTRY_INVALID, ENTRY_VALID, ENTRY_DIRTY): Delete.
        (state_chars): Delete.
        (struct dcache_block): Clean up; remove state and anydirty fields.
        (struct dcache_struct): Redefine as a splay tree and linked list.
        (last_cache): Make static.
        (dcache_invalidate, dcache_hit): Rewrite for new cache structure.
        (dcache_read_line, dcache_alloc): Rewrite for new cache structure.
        (dcache_write_line): Delete.
        (dcache_writeback): Delete.
        (dcache_peek_byte): Clean up; remove "invalid" state check.
        (dcache_poke_byte): Rewrite for new cache structure; clarify comment.
        (dcache_splay_tree_compare): New function.
        (dcache_init, dcache_free): Rewrite for new cache structure.
        (dcache_xfer_memory): Rewrite for new write-through cache structure.
        (dcache_print_line): New function.
        (dcache_info): Rewrite for new cache structure.
        (_initialize_dcache): Update "info dcache" help text.
        * dcache.h (dcache_xfer_memory): Update declaration.
        * target.c (memory_xfer_partial): Update calls to dcache_xfer_memory.