Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758293AbZFYEe6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752916AbZFYEet (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:34:49 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-2.cisco.com ([171.71.176.71]:17744 "EHLO sj-iport-2.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752678AbZFYEes (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:34:48 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,288,1243814400"; d="scan'208";a="180174324" From: Roland Dreier To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events References: <1245760130.3776.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090623195656.GC8777@elte.hu> <1245876060.3038.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1245904175.3022.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:34:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1245904175.3022.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Jaswinder Singh Rajput's message of "Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:59:35 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jun 2009 04:34:50.0345 (UTC) FILETIME=[46F47590:01C9F54E] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim2002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 31 > L1-data-Cache-Load-Reference [Hardware cache event] > L1-instruction-Cache-Load-Reference [Hardware cache event] obvious place to start is to change "data-Cache" and "instruction-Cache" to "dcache" and "icache" which are still easy to figure out without needing to look anything up. And "Reference" can become "ref" with minimal loss of clarity too. So we could get down to L1-icache-load L1-icache-load-miss L1-icache-store-miss L1-icache-prefetch L1-icache-prefetch-miss and so on. > Data-TLB-Cache-Load-Reference [Hardware cache event] Could become dTLB-load dTLB-load-miss iTLB-load etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/