Hello,

We have conducted power measurement on Q1U with ondemand and performance
governors. I don't know about the Power and Performance project, but the
test result seems to use BLTK.
http://www.lesswatts.org/downloads/#bltk
BLTK is a kind of logger and workload. It collects battery capacity and
various speedstep related values from sysfs periodically. Also it
generates very intuitive graph of the values. I don't know this can be
of any help, but I think BLTK is a good starting point for the
measurement.

Thanks,
Owen 

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To: Justin Bailey
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] Power and Performance Measurement tests?

Justin Bailey wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> As part of a class project, I am interested in measuring the power vs.
> performance of various cpufreq governors. On LessWatts.Org, there is a
> page about a Power and Performance project[1]. Are the tests used
> available for download somewhere? They make mention of a Kernel
> Performance Project[2], but I don't see where that project is
> measuring any power either.
>
> Any info is much appreciated! I will be sure to post my results back
here.
>
> Justin
>
> [1] http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/power-performance/
> [2] http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net/
>
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Powertop will report battery usage in Watts for laptops which implement 
it (remember to unplug the power cable first!)

It may be that other software deliberately doesn't include this, because

it's designed to be used with a special power measuring device.  That 
presumably avoids issues with variable battery management 
implementations, makes it easier to compare across different computers, 
and allows desktops to be tested as well.  Though it does mean you have 
to test with the power cable _plugged in_, which can make a difference 
on some laptops (when unplugged, some BIOS's will automatically switch 
some hardware to low power mode; I'm thinking of something like enabling

CPU C4 deep sleep, though that shouldn't affect raw power/performance 
figuires).

I don't know about the performance side of the tests though.

Alan

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