Re: [PATCH v2] perfcounters: record time running and time enabled for each counter

[Ray Lee]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>
>> Perhaps one of the reasons why this code is confusing is the blurring
>> between the "time" at which an event occured and the "time" between the
>> occurrence of two events. ÂA weakness in English, I guess. ÂUsing the term
>> "interval" in the latter case will help a lot.
>
> Except that we aren't measuring an "interval", we're measuring the
> combined length of a whole series of intervals. ÂWhat's a good word
> for that?

As Ingo pointed out, 'runtime' is a decent choice for that.
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