Don't require full rebuild when doing --for_firesim
#30 aberto em 21 de mar. de 2021
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Whenever we add on --for_firesim this forces a full rebuild. It's very annoying and slows down development speed. This should not be required because all for_firesim on the ORT binary does is basically flush gemmini at process start (the flag for the runner does mlockall, but since runner builds in 1 min anyway that's not an issue).
I propose instead of controller whether flush happens via an ifdef, we just always flush on the first call to gemmini if the execution mode is WS. Basically have a global variable that stores whether flush has happened, and then on the very first call to one of the gemmini functions (conv/matmul) we flush if mode is WS. The get_matmul_type function is a good place for this because all calls go through that.