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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 11:34:54 EST



* Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 266590464 L1d-loads (scaled from 23.03%)
>
> IMHO "L1d" is too abbreviated for it to be obvious that it means
> L1 data cache. If you want something really short maybe "L1-d$"
> might be a little clearer, but I stil like "L1-dcache" best.

i changed it to L1-d$ / L1-i$.

> The formatting of aligning things is nice defitely but we could
> also shorten lines by saying "scaled from" in fewer characters
> maybe? (I have to admit I don't know what "scaled from X%" means
> in this case so I can't suggest something better, but the fact
> that I can't easily tell what it means probably suggests that the
> wording could be improved)

Indeed, the '(scaled from 12.3%)' message should i guess be changed
to:

(9.43x scaled)

( and a multiplicative factor is more expressive anyway, than the
percentage of from where we scale up. )

Ingo
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