Re: [Gems-users] Adding Components to Ruby

[Mike Marty <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It depends partially on where you want to put the hardware
> components, and what the components plan on doing.

You are right in that it entirely depends on what is being added.

> From what i've
> gathered, L1 is checked for the data in Sequencer's call to doRequest
> (hit=tryCacheAccess .. .).  If there is a hit, it will go through the
> fast cache access path.

This is indeed the case for SMP protocols where fast paths are required in
order for a single controller, that handles both the L1 and L2 cache, to
distinguish between an L1 hit and an L2 hit