Your program must be able to parse memory trace files that are in the Dinero text format (Dinero is a well‐known cache simulator). This is a simple text format that is given below:
2 20d Dinero input format "din" is an ASCII file with
2 211 one LABEL and one ADDRESS per line. The rest of
0 1fc780 the line is ignored so that it can be used for
1 7fffccb0 comments.
2 213
2 217 LABEL = 0 read data
0 1fc77c 1 write data
1 7fffccac 2 instruction fetch
2 219 3 escape record (treated as unknown access type)
2 21d 4 escape record (causes cache flush)
0 1fc778
1 7fffcca8 0 <= ADDRESS <= ffffffff where the hexadecimal addresses
2 21f are NOT preceded by "0x."
2 223
2 220
You will be provided with a couple of memory trace files in this format along with ‘golden’ results from several sample runs. In the above format, ‘read data’ and ‘instruction fetch’ both count as ‘read accesses’. You are to simulate a unified cache, which means instruction and data are both stored in the same cache.
These options are compatible with the DineroIV cache simulator. Sample command line runs are shown below (the program name is cache_sim, and the input file is tex.din):
cache_sim tex.din -l1-usize 1024 -l1-ubsize 32 -l1-uassoc 32 -l1-urepl f -l1-uwalloc n
cache_sim tex.din -l1-usize 1024 -l1-ubsize 32 -l1-uassoc 4 -l1-urepl l -l1-uwalloc a
cache_sim tex.din -l1-usize 1024 -l1-ubsize 32 -l1-uassoc 1 -l1-urepl l -l1-uwalloc a
Your program must output the number of cache misses for the given options and input file. Sample
output is shown below. The only important information in the output is the line ‘Demand Misses 42825’ – your output must contain a line like this, in this exact format as my regression script parses the output and looks for a line that starts with ‘Demand Misses’
cache_sim tex.din -l1-usize 1024 -l1-ubsize 32 -l1-uassoc 4 -l1-urepl l -l1-uwalloc a
Running with l1-usize=1024, l1-ubsize=32, l1-assoc=4, l1-repl=l, l1-uwalloc=a
Number of cache lines is: 8
Demand Accesses 832477
Demand Misses 42825
The ZIP archive for this homework contains the following:
traces/ folder – contains three trace files that can be used for testing.
cache_sim.exe - Windows x86 executable that is my solution to this problem. This can be used to obtain sample results
goldAll_espresso.log, goldAll_tex.log - correct output for several runs using the trace files espresso.din, tex.din. Dr. Reese reserve the right to test your program with more than these options.
cache_sim.py - Skeleton files that have parsing of the required command line arguments in Python. You can use these as starting points if you desire.
regress.check.py - A regression test script that takes three arguments: the name of a golden cache simulation executable (i.e., ‘cache_sim.exe’), the name of your cache simulation executable, and the name of a trace file. It will run both programs on the trace file using several options, compare the results, and report failures.
