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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 05:24:52 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ?

Ingo
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