Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>  > > Where is the point of this? dL1-loads is a completely non 
>  > > intuitive artificial abbreviation.
>  > 
>  > blame me :)
>  > 
>  > I found L1-data-Cache-Load-References way too long and i asked for 
>  > suggestions and came up with my list of abbreviations.
>  > 
>  > I found 'dL1' intuitive because we use 'dTLB' and 'iTLB' as well.
>  > 
>  > How about L1-data-loads ?
> 
> I think L1-dcache is a good compromise between length and ease of 
> understanding (at least for me).

all of them are caches and dcache is quite ugly as we already have a 
'dcache' in the kernel.

We could do L1-data-loads or just go back to dL1-loads or 
d-L1-loads.

	Ingo
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