Re: [LDWG] Power & Performance Lead?

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM Chris Moerz <freebsd@ny-central.org> wrote:

> Hi Dudley,
>
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Dudley Innocent wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Noticed in the web call that "Performance & Power" is a want/need, but
> there
> > is little interest in leading it.  Not sure why that is (by stander
> effect?),
> > but I do not mind throwing a few hours towards the concept.  Out of my
> depth,
> > so are there any friendly headings on what to start with? None of the
> items in
> > the worksheet are prioritized.
>
> You're certainly welcome to add your name as you see fit! Admittedly, it's
> probably one of the bigger challenges.
>
> >
> > Hoping for input,
>
> Unless anyone has additional insights, here's my two cents: there are
> likely various ways to address this "area or interest".
>
> It may be a good starting point to raise that topic during the next call
> and look into organizing a subgroup of people to develop this forward,
> unless we manage to rally people through the mailing list.
>
> Right now, it's mixing a few things together. It may also be helpful to
> split or focus it a bit more: right now I can identify at least four
> topics (there may be more?):
>
>  * performance, i.e. making use of p- and e-cores
>  * power management, reducing power draw
>  * improving the scheduler to be more responsive for user-centric
>    workloads
>  * suspend/resume improvements - may require clarification (may have
>    a strong dependency to drm-kmod, but I'm not sure about it)
>

Also, there are the issues open in the FreeBSD Foundation repo for further
investigation/work. For example:

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3APower

Mark