Re: Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux

[Christian Grothoff]

On 04/12/2014 12:05 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>>> Cryogenic is the result of my Master's Thesis, completed at the Technical University
>>>> of Munich under the supervision of Christian Grothoff. You can find more information
>>>> about Cryogenic at https://gnunet.org/cryogenic
>>>
>>> Do you have any measurements how much power it actually saves?
>>
>> Yes, it depends on the device, but we have demonstrated power
>> savings for two different types of devices using two different
>> measurement setups performed by two independent groups.  Some
>> of the measurements are available on the website, the second
>> set should become available "soon" (but we can already say that
>> for the scenario we measured, the savings are in the same range
>> as before).
> 
> The video I seen.... AFAICT the savings are in <10% range?

For the scenario we scripted, yes. But note that we only
allowed 50% of the packets transmitted to be delayed (a bit).
If you were to increase the allowed delay or allowed a larger
fraction of packets to be delayed, you should see larger savings.

> I seen demo on UDP packets... delayed TCP socket write is probably
> easy, but would API allow delayed TCP connect?

Yes.

> Hmm, but the API needs redoing, anyway, fcntl()?

Depends --- while I like the idea, I did not hear enough to be
certain that having this feature embedded in such a non-modular
way was already the consensus (and I do not see a reasonable
way to change the API this way while maintaining the modularity
of the current code).

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