Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Per-process power consumption measurement facility

From: Kyungmin Park
Date: Thu Jul 04 2013 - 20:49:13 EST


Hi Krivyakin,

Please use "./scripts/get_maintainer.pl" and send proper maintainers.

I added them.

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Konstantin Krivyakin
<k.krivyakin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patchset adds per-process power consumption measurement facility.
> Power consumption is very important on mobile platforms. This code
> allows to measure consumed power in Watts*Hours. The consumed power
> for process is updated on scheduler switch and depends on current
> CPU voltage and frequency.
>
> The formula for computation is: P = C * V^2 * f, where C is a constant
> that reflects capacity of the system, V is the current voltage and
> f is the current frequency.
> (Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation).
>
> In this patchset was added implementation for Exynos platform
> to demonstrate how it works.
>
> To minimize scheduler impact for each CPU P-state the value of (V^2 *f)
> was precomputed at the time of platform initialization.
>
> And to reduce performance impact furthermore, the C constant is multiplied
> in userspace.
>
> Konstantin Krivyakin (3):
> Add interface to receive current cpu power
> Add power consumption counter in task_struct.
> Update current cpu power when cpu freq change for exynos.
>
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c | 2 ++
> drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.h | 1 +
> drivers/cpufreq/exynos4x12-cpufreq.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 6 ++++++
> include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++
> include/uapi/linux/taskstats.h | 2 ++
> kernel/fork.c | 1 +
> kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++++++
> kernel/sched/cputime.c | 11 +++++++++++
> kernel/tsacct.c | 3 +++
> 11 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
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