Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:51 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
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* Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> 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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