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diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst index 842ae01a4c..59a7d838be 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst @@ -361,8 +361,9 @@ which will output an execution trace following this structure:: - contrib/plugins/cache.c -Cache modelling plugin that measures the performance of a given cache -configuration when a given working set is run:: +Cache modelling plugin that measures the performance of a given L1 cache +configuration, and optionally a unified L2 per-core cache when a given working +set is run:: qemu-x86_64 -plugin ./contrib/plugins/libcache.so \ -d plugin -D cache.log ./tests/tcg/x86_64-linux-user/float_convs @@ -420,3 +421,18 @@ The plugin has a number of arguments, all of them are optional: Sets the number of cores for which we maintain separate icache and dcache. (default: for linux-user, N = 1, for full system emulation: N = cores available to guest) + + * l2=on + + Simulates a unified L2 cache (stores blocks for both instructions and data) + using the default L2 configuration (cache size = 2MB, associativity = 16-way, + block size = 64B). + + * l2cachesize=N + * l2blksize=B + * l2assoc=A + + L2 cache configuration arguments. They specify the cache size, block size, and + associativity of the L2 cache, respectively. Setting any of the L2 + configuration arguments implies ``l2=on``. + (default: N = 2097152 (2MB), B = 64, A = 16) |