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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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