linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906251445200.2767@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:48:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > >       248064467  L1-data-Cache-Load-Referencees  (scaled from 23.27%)
> > >       283542921  dL1-loads             (scaled from 23.28%)
> > 
> > Where is the point of this? dL1-loads is a completely non 
> > intuitive artificial abbreviation.
> 
> blame me :)
> 
> I found L1-data-Cache-Load-References way too long and i asked for 
> suggestions and came up with my list of abbreviations.
> 
> I found 'dL1' intuitive because we use 'dTLB' and 'iTLB' as well.

:)
 
> How about L1-data-loads ?

Yeah, something like that would be nice. The ones Roland
suggested are fine as well.

Thanks,

	tglx
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