Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:48:10 +0530
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On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > OK, We will show :
> > 'branch loads'           -> 'branches'
> > 'branch load-misses'     -> 'branch-misses'
> > 
> > now issue is how we can show :
> > 
> > 'branch stores'          ->  ?
> > 'branch store-misses'    ->  ?
> > 
> > 'branch prefetches'      ->  ?
> > 'branch prefetch-misses' ->  ?
> 
> there's no such thing as a 'branch store'. Instructions are not 
> stored. We shouldnt display those.
> 
> They are prefetched sometimes speculatively ... not sure there are 
> events for them ... are there?
> 

yes, you are right there is no such events.

But I need to test and display all.

If I need to to need to handle branch as special case, then better to
make separate array for branches and remove from hw_cache array.

Is it OK.

Thanks,

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