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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:32:39 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
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* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 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$" might be a
> > little clearer, but I stil like "L1-dcache" best.
> 
> There's one problem with L1-d$-* for event names. It took me a few goes
> before I realised I was being hit by bash variable expansion:
> 
> 
> #  perf stat -e L1-d$-loads ls
> 
>  usage: perf stat [<options>] <command>
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> # perf stat -e 'L1-d$-loads' ls
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
> 
>         1273291  L1-d$-loads             
> 
>     0.004434037  seconds time elapsed
> 
> 
> I also prefer the more verbose L1-dcache-* names, and since we 
> support aliases its mostly a matter of screen real estate when 
> printing out the statistics.

ok - mind sending a patch for this?

	Ingo
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