Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: Fix COMM and MMAP events for cpu wide counters

Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30T09:41:17Z

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> GeunSik Lim wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> >> Commit-ID: efb3d17240d80e27508d238809168120fe4b93a4
> >> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/efb3d17240d80e27508d238809168120fe4b93a4
> >
> > I have one question about "tip-bot" and "-tip" word.
> > "tip" word is abbreviation. Can anyone explain me meaning of the "tip" word?
> > Sorry for trivial question.
> > But I always wondered about this abbreviation in private.

-tip is to signal the 'cutting edge/summit' of the trees we are
maintaining and working on. "define:tip" on google gives:

tip:
[...]
peak: the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or
hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered
to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at
the summit"

> T: Thomas
> I: Ingo
> P: hpa

That secondary meaning is valid too ;-)

Ingo