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

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Message-ID: <20090625152451.GA10868@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:51 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	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


* Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:

> 
>  > > 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 ?
> 
> I think L1-dcache is a good compromise between length and ease of 
> understanding (at least for me).

all of them are caches and dcache is quite ugly as we already have a 
'dcache' in the kernel.

We could do L1-data-loads or just go back to dL1-loads or 
d-L1-loads.

	Ingo
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