Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:26:22 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
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* Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> 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 find 'dcache' extremely confusing given that we have a dcache in 
Linux already.

	Ingo
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