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From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perfcounters: record time running and time enabled for  each counter
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:16:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c0942db0903221016y45c21dbeu699f666b8e3431ee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18885.29855.433194.463455@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>
>> Perhaps one of the reasons why this code is confusing is the blurring
>> between the "time" at which an event occured and the "time" between the
>> occurrence of two events.  A weakness in English, I guess.  Using the term
>> "interval" in the latter case will help a lot.
>
> Except that we aren't measuring an "interval", we're measuring the
> combined length of a whole series of intervals.  What's a good word
> for that?

As Ingo pointed out, 'runtime' is a decent choice for that.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-22 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 12:04 Paul Mackerras
2009-03-21 12:52 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 15:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-21 15:54   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-21 16:10     ` [tree] Performance Counters for Linux, v7 Ingo Molnar
2009-03-22  6:48       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-23 22:06         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-21 23:13   ` [PATCH v2] perfcounters: record time running and time enabled for each counter Paul Mackerras
2009-03-22  8:55     ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-22 11:44       ` Paul Mackerras
2009-03-22 17:16     ` Ray Lee [this message]

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