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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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