Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:32:39 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | 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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