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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-19 10:04:23 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-10-19 16:05:01 -0300
commitb14f2d357675bd7fb4e5a705ac7320a9638ecab5 (patch)
tree6773699d486df953956f21fd0cb67ba8d88617fc /tools/perf/Documentation
parent7a46a8fd13bd60584687f417cd35935965f29ae2 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt4
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'