Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756977AbZFYPEI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:04:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753663AbZFYPD5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:03:57 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-1.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:7111 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752546AbZFYPD4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:03:56 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,290,1243814400"; d="scan'208";a="205574488" From: Roland Dreier To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , 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> <20090625092409.GC23547@elte.hu> X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:03:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20090625092409.GC23547@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:24:09 +0200") 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 15:03:59.0571 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B3F3A30:01C9F5A6] 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: 715 Lines: 22 > > 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). - R. -- 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/