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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:48:10 +0530
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > OK, We will show :
> > 'branch loads' -> 'branches'
> > 'branch load-misses' -> 'branch-misses'
> >
> > now issue is how we can show :
> >
> > 'branch stores' -> ?
> > 'branch store-misses' -> ?
> >
> > 'branch prefetches' -> ?
> > 'branch prefetch-misses' -> ?
>
> there's no such thing as a 'branch store'. Instructions are not
> stored. We shouldnt display those.
>
> They are prefetched sometimes speculatively ... not sure there are
> events for them ... are there?
>
yes, you are right there is no such events.
But I need to test and display all.
If I need to to need to handle branch as special case, then better to
make separate array for branches and remove from hw_cache array.
Is it OK.
Thanks,
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