Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757730AbZFYPeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:34:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753061AbZFYPem (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:34:42 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:53360 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752783AbZFYPem (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:34:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:34:06 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Roland Dreier Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events Message-ID: <20090625153406.GA12918@elte.hu> References: <1245760130.3776.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090623195656.GC8777@elte.hu> <1245876060.3038.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090625093346.GD23547@elte.hu> <1245934522.5308.39.camel@hpdv5.satnam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 32 * Roland Dreier 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$" > might be a little clearer, but I stil like "L1-dcache" best. i changed it to L1-d$ / L1-i$. > The formatting of aligning things is nice defitely but we could > also shorten lines by saying "scaled from" in fewer characters > maybe? (I have to admit I don't know what "scaled from X%" means > in this case so I can't suggest something better, but the fact > that I can't easily tell what it means probably suggests that the > wording could be improved) Indeed, the '(scaled from 12.3%)' message should i guess be changed to: (9.43x scaled) ( and a multiplicative factor is more expressive anyway, than the percentage of from where we scale up. ) Ingo -- 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/