Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760258AbZFZQHV (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751269AbZFZQHK (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:07:10 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45664 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbZFZQHJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:07:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roland Dreier , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , LKML In-Reply-To: <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> <20090625153406.GA12918@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:36:39 +0530 Message-Id: <1246032399.3063.3.camel@hpdv5.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 40 On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:34 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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. ) > Can you please let me know how you get 9.43x from 12.3% Thanks, -- JSR -- 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/