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Accelerator Coherency Port

Shakith Fernando
Note: This was originally posted on 25th January 2013 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the AcceleratorCoherency Port of the ARM A9MPCORE in the Xilinx Zynq platform (http://www.xilinx.co...vices/index.htm).

1.[size="2"]  [/size]I have a functionaldesign where DMA in the FPGA region is able read and write data through the ACP.But is there direct way to verify that the data is coming from the cacheitself. Only option is to measure cache hits using the PL310 cache controllerevent registers againist a known data set size. But it's a not exact solution,as there may be cache hits in the L1 cache hits instead of L2.

2. As mentioned here (http://forums.arm.co...pcore-acp-port/),I downloaded the Ds5 tools to get access to the reference design, but there is nospecific target design for the ACP. The startup code that enables MMU, L1 cachesand SCU should be enough to make sure the ACP is getting the data from cache?

3.  Cacheable region setting can be set in the MMU table. Butdoes it guarantee exclusive access to a fixed memory region. Maybe if a linux osis running, then it can cause cache thrashing. Is there way to set priority forthe region?

4. Is there support for linux for this. As I understand the ACP istechnically a hardware thing and should be transparent to software. Only thing isto do would be to expose the memory region from kernel space to user space togive it to the DMA engine.

Thanks in advance.
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 5th February 2013 at http://forums.arm.com



    >>1.[size="2"]  [/size]I have a functionaldesign where DMA in the FPGA region is able read and write data through the ACP.But is there direct way to verify that the data is coming from the cacheitself. Only option is to >> measure cache hits using the PL310 cache controllerevent registers againist a known data set size. But it's a not exact solution,as there may be cache hits in the L1 cache hits instead of L2.
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    [font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]You could try performance monitoring unit for L1 cache provided you are able to access programmable registers to enable events monitoring[/size][/font]


         Vaibhav



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  • Note: This was originally posted on 5th February 2013 at http://forums.arm.com



    >>1.[size="2"]  [/size]I have a functionaldesign where DMA in the FPGA region is able read and write data through the ACP.But is there direct way to verify that the data is coming from the cacheitself. Only option is to >> measure cache hits using the PL310 cache controllerevent registers againist a known data set size. But it's a not exact solution,as there may be cache hits in the L1 cache hits instead of L2.
    [size=2]
    [/size]

    [font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]You could try performance monitoring unit for L1 cache provided you are able to access programmable registers to enable events monitoring[/size][/font]


         Vaibhav



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