In the list of L2 masters what is Chiplink Domain #1-7 Prefetch? I understand what Chiplink domain means. My question is about the meaning of “Prefetch”.
ChipLink order domains must execute their reads/writes in FIFO order. However, there is a component in the SoC which snoops ahead of the currently active reads/writes to find stuff that will come later and it prefetches that data.
Which component are you referring to? Is this related to TileLink Hint operations?
I’m asking this because I see an impact on NVDLA performance when I set the way mask to 0x0 for this domain. So, there must be accesses in prefetch domain by NVDLA (alongside the accesses on non-prefetch domains). I’d like to know how some of the accesses by NVDLA are directed to prefetch domain.
All accesses that come in via ChipLink but which are stalled due to AXI ordering requirements will generate prefetches/Hints from the prefetch master you are asking about.
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