Re: [PATCH] perf bench: fix confused variable namings and descriptions in mem subsystem

From: Hitoshi Mitake
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 05:06:21 EST


Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 00:06:23 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>> As Namhyung Kim pointed, there are confused namings and descriptions
>> of words "cycle" and "clock" in mem-memset.c and mem-memcpy.c.
>>
>> With the option "-c" (or "--clock", now renamed as "--cycle"), mem
>> subsystem measures cost of memset() and memcpy() with cpu-cycles
>> event.
>>
>> But current mem subsystem source code contains lots of confused
>> variable namings and descriptions with "clock" (e.g. the variable
>> use_clock). This is a very bad style because there is another
>software
>> event named "cpu-clock". This patch replaces wrong usage of "clock"
>to
>> "cycle".
>>
>
>Could you fix the Documentation/perf-bench.txt also?
>
>Thanks,
>Namhyung

Oops, sorry. I'll send the modified version later.
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