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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 11:25:39 EST



* Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> 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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