From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754172AbXDPBEN (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754173AbXDPBEN (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:04:13 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:47657 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754172AbXDPBEN (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:04:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:04:24 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Pavel Machek Cc: Maxim Uvarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidsen@tmr.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, jesper.juhl@gmail.com Subject: Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch Message-ID: <20070416010424.GG2986@holomorphy.com> References: <461A4C1E.3070309@ru.mvista.com> <20070415094706.GB10097@ucw.cz> <20070415102157.GB2986@holomorphy.com> <20070415201024.GB12012@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070415201024.GB12012@ucw.cz> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2007-04-15 03:21:57, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> nvcsw and nivcsw are conventional variable names for these quantities. On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:10:24PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > I can't decipher them and would not want users see them in /proc. > Would nonvoluntary_ctxt_switch be that much worse? I'm not too attached to a particular name. I just think that the traditional counter names should pass readability/etc. criteria on account of the very strong historical precedent. I'd consider more verbose affairs for the sake of putative legibility as equivalent in quality. Maybe that means others voting for the more verbose names should result in an aggregate decision in favor of verbosity. -- wli