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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-10-19 10:04:23 +0200 |
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| committer |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-10-19 16:05:01 -0300 |
| commit | b14f2d357675bd7fb4e5a705ac7320a9638ecab5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6773699d486df953956f21fd0cb67ba8d88617fc /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | |
| parent | perf bench: List output formatting options on 'perf bench -h' (diff) | |
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perf bench mem: Change 'cycle' to 'cycles'
So 'perf bench mem memset/memcpy' has a CPU cycles measurement method,
but calls it 'cycle' (singular) throughout the code, which makes it
harder to read.
Rename all related functions, variables and options to a plural 'cycles'
nomenclature.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-8-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
[ s/--cycle/--cycles/g in perf-bench man page ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt index 9cb60abe03aa..17135ef92d70 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-movsq and x86-64-movsb are supported. Repeat memcpy invocation this number of times. -c:: ---cycle:: +--cycles:: Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall. *memset*:: @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ On x86-64, x86-64-unrolled, x86-64-stosq and x86-64-stosb are supported. Repeat memset invocation this number of times. -c:: ---cycle:: +--cycles:: Use perf's cpu-cycles event instead of gettimeofday syscall. SUITES FOR 'numa' |