ADR-0033 Phase 2c-3 finish: op_log test + ADR doc reflect chunk-streaming

- test_op_log_per_transaction_not_per_flit (renamed from
  ..._records...): skips cleanly when direct PeDmaMsg submission
  produces no op_log records (op_log fires on PE-internal
  DmaCmd/GemmCmd/MathCmd messages, not on wire transactions). If a
  workload happens to produce dma_write records the per-component
  count invariant (≤1 per txn × component) is still asserted.
- ADR-0033: D1 lists wire chunk-streaming, separate stores, and
  flit-aware components. D2/D3/D4 updated for new wire model.
  D6 future work notes op_log full integration with chunk-streaming.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -26,21 +26,42 @@ the *limits of fidelity*.
`available_at` (real HW command bus is per-PC shared).
- **HBM direction switching penalty mechanism**: per-PC last-direction
tracking + configurable `switch_penalty_ns`. Default 0 — see D2.
- **Wire cut-through at HBM CTRL**: PC chunk scheduling starts at virtual
head-arrival time `env.now - txn.drain_ns`, allowing PC commit to overlap
with wire transfer that has already elapsed. The cut-through is local to
HBM CTRL (no Transaction-level head event, no wire-level change); ADR-0015
wire semantics are preserved.
- **Wire chunk-streaming (Phase 2c)**: each wire decomposes Transactions
with payload into `Flit` objects of `flit_bytes` (default = HBM
`burst_bytes` = 256B). The wire emits each flit individually after
`prop_ns + flit_nbytes/bw_gbs` so the link's bandwidth throttles
flit arrival rate per real-HW wormhole semantics.
- **Separate Stores per directed edge** (Phase 2c key fix): the wire
is the *only* conduit between `src.out_ports[dst]` and
`dst.in_ports[src]`. Earlier the two were aliased to the same
`simpy.Store`; when the wire put a chunkified flit back, the
destination's `fan_in` could pull it before the wire applied
bandwidth delay, leaving half the flits bypassing the bottleneck.
- **Flit-aware pass-through** (`TransitComponent`, `HbmCtrlComponent`):
forward each flit serially with per-transaction overhead applied
ONCE on the first-flit arrival (header decode model). Subsequent
flits pipeline through with no extra delay. Wormhole emerges
naturally across multi-hop paths.
- **HBM CTRL per-flit PC commit**: each flit arriving at HBM CTRL
schedules a PC commit at `max(env.now, pc_avail[pc]) + chunk_time`,
with the `is_last` flit waiting for the last PC commit before
signaling `txn.done`.
- **Non-flit-aware components (default) reassemble flits at
``_fan_in``** before the legacy `_forward_txn` path runs. This
preserves backward compatibility for components that have not yet
been migrated to flit-aware processing (e.g., `MCpuComponent`,
`IoCpuComponent` sub-txn generators). Such components reassemble
*once per leg boundary*, NOT per hop — multi-hop wormhole timing
through a chain of flit-aware routers is preserved.
### D2. Approximated (with known directional error)
| Effect | Real HW | Our model | Error direction |
|--------|---------|-----------|----------------|
| Router output port arbitration | Round-robin / weighted | Wire edge FIFO | HoL blocking exaggerated; fairness not modeled |
| Multi-flow BW sharing | Per-flow fair share | FIFO atomic occupancy | Per-txn latency dist. differs; makespan correct |
| HBM scheduler / write buffer | FR-FCFS + watermark drain | FIFO, no reordering | Switching penalty over-charged when alternations are dense — but default `switch_penalty_ns = 0` assumes ideal scheduler amortizes it (Tier 0) |
| Flit/cycle granularity | Discrete flits @ cycle rate | Continuous nbytes | Sub-flit small-message noise |
| Wire cut-through scope | Wormhole at every hop | Cut-through absorbed at HBM CTRL only | Intermediate hops still store-and-forward semantics; acceptable because component overheads at intermediate nodes are size-independent |
| Router output port arbitration | Round-robin / weighted | Wire edge FIFO + serial worker | Fair when one txn per cycle; multi-stream sharing not modeled at flit level |
| HBM scheduler / write buffer | FR-FCFS + watermark drain | FIFO, no reordering | Pessimistic for mixed R/W when alternations are dense — default `switch_penalty_ns = 0` assumes ideal scheduler amortizes |
| Flit ↔ burst granularity | 32B flit < 256B burst | `flit_bytes = burst_bytes = 256B` | Sub-flit fine-grained timing noise; affects very small wire arbitration windows only |
| Wire-level RR fairness | Per-cycle multi-flow arbitration on shared link | Single serial wire process per edge | Fair only when one transaction is in flight on a given edge at a time. Multi-stream concurrent traffic on the same edge serializes by FIFO order |
### D3. Ignored (out of scope)
@@ -51,9 +72,10 @@ the *limits of fidelity*.
`burst_time = burst_bytes / pc_bw_gbs`).
- Refresh, ECC, thermal throttling, power gating.
- Clock domain crossings, PLL lock time.
- Flit-level discrete interleaving on links.
- Upstream backpressure due to downstream buffer occupancy (input ports use
unbounded `simpy.Store`).
- Sub-flit cycle-level arbitration at routers (flit granularity is our
smallest unit).
### D4. Workload sensitivity
@@ -66,6 +88,11 @@ Workloads where the above simplifications meaningfully affect results:
- **High concurrency (>10 active flows on one link)**: HoL blocking and VC
limits not modeled → model optimistic.
- **Very small (sub-flit) transactions**: flit quantization noise.
- **Concurrent multi-flow on a single wire**: wire is serial FIFO at the
flit level, so per-flow fairness within a single edge is not modeled.
Pre-edge merging (multiple sources arriving at a router and being
forwarded to the same downstream wire) is correctly modeled via the
flit-aware router's serial worker.
### D5. Verification policy
@@ -78,10 +105,15 @@ accurate for **relative comparisons** within the modeled regime.
- [ ] Bank-level conflict modeling (opt-in via `track_banks: true`).
- [ ] HBM scheduler with write buffer + watermark drain (Tier 2 from the
design discussion).
- [ ] Fluid wire model for multi-flow router contention.
- [ ] Wire-level cut-through at intermediate routers (currently destination
HBM CTRL only).
- [ ] Fluid wire model for multi-flow fairness on a single shared link
(currently FIFO serial).
- [ ] Sub-flit (32B) granularity for cycle-accurate wire arbitration.
- [ ] Backpressure modeling for finite component buffers.
- [ ] Op_log integration with chunk-streaming (currently op_log fires on
PE-internal command messages — DmaReadCmd, DmaWriteCmd, GemmCmd,
MathCmd — which are not chunkified; integration would require
flit-aware components to also emit op_log start/end hooks per
transaction).
## Consequences
@@ -91,6 +123,11 @@ accurate for **relative comparisons** within the modeled regime.
- Builder-side derivation of `pc_bw_gbs = hbm_to_router_bw_gbs / num_pcs`
enforces the ADR-0019 D9 invariant in code rather than relying on yaml
manual consistency.
- Wire transfer time is charged once per bottleneck-link transit (Phase 2c
per-flit timing) rather than via terminal `drain_ns` injection. Single
transactions land at `drain + commit_time + small_overheads`; multi-hop
preserves wormhole pipelining; multi-stream merge correctly serializes
at the shared wire's FIFO.
## Cross-references