Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754020Ab2FSIwL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 04:52:11 -0400 Received: from LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.151]:49489 "EHLO LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753624Ab2FSIwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 04:52:09 -0400 X-AuditID: 9c930197-b7b87ae000000e4d-16-4fe03db5c660 From: Namhyung Kim To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix an error on perf-bench document References: <1339944948-3193-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20120618090501.GB28824@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:48:44 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20120618090501.GB28824@gmail.com> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:05:01 +0200") Message-ID: <87mx3zhekz.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.97 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1711 Lines: 80 Hi, Ingo On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:05:01 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > There's several typos all across the perf bench documentation: > > 1) > > This perf bench command is general framework for benchmark suites. > > s/is general/is a general > Will fix. > 2) > > The output of 'perf bench --help' outputs weird looking > formatting characters like: > > .ft C > % perf bench sched pipe # with no style specified > (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks) > Total time:5.855 sec > 5.855061 usecs/op > 170792 ops/sec > .ft > I have no idea on this, maybe a problem of asciidoc? > 3) > > This: > > all: test all suite (pseudo suite) > > s/all suite (psudo suite)/all benchmark suites > > (this should be fixed for perf bench mem as well.) > Will fix. > 4) > > perf bench mem memcpy -h outputs: > > -l, --length <1MB> Specify length of memory to copy. available unit: B, MB, GB (upper and lower) > > bad capitalization: s/. a/. A > > s/unit/units > Will fix too. > 5) > > This: > > -c, --clock Use CPU clock for measuring > > should probably clarify why the CPU clock matters and what > measurement is done otherwise. > This looks a bit weird. If -c switch was given, it'd use the cycles event not the cpu-clock event. If omitted, it'd use the gtod(). Thanks, Namhyung -- 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/