[Lpc-announce] Power Management and Energy-Awareness Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

[Jake Edge]

Power management and energy efficiency continues to receive considerable
attention, and is becoming a Plumbers tradition (see the 2015 wiki [1] for
last year's instance).  This year's microconference will continue these
efforts [2].

This microconference will look at elimination of timers from cpufreq
governors, unifying idle management in SoCs [3] with power resources shared
between CPUs and I/O devices, load balancing utilizing workload
consolidation and/or platform energy models to improve energy-efficiency
and/or performance, improving CPU frequency selection efficiency by
utilizing information provided by the scheduler in intel_pstate [4] and
cpufreq governors [5], idle injection (CFS-based [6] vs. play idle with
kthreads [PDF] [7]), ACPI [8] compliance tests (from the power management
perspective) and more.

We hope to see you there!

[1] http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2015:energy-aware_scheduling
[2] http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016:power_management_and_energy-awareness
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip
[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
[5] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely_Fair_Scheduler
[7] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LinuxCon_Japan_2015_idle_injection1_0.pdf
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface