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*[http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/processor.html Getting c-state and p-state info in linux] | *[http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/processor.html Getting c-state and p-state info in linux] | ||
*[http://www.intel.co.jp/Assets/en_US/PDF/datasheet/323369.pdf Intel | *[http://www.intel.co.jp/Assets/en_US/PDF/datasheet/323369.pdf Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series, Datasheet Volume I]. March 2010. | ||
:-p. 168: "Processor core (including shared cache) is unavailable for less than 2us during the frequency transition." | :-p. 168: "Processor core (including shared cache) is unavailable for less than 2us during the frequency transition." | ||
:Power consumption table for 5600 by C-state | :Power consumption table for 5600 by C-state | ||
:-p. 167: "Processor C-State Power Specifications" table power consumption by C-state | |||
*Adrian Hoban. [http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323671.pdf Designing Real-Time Solutions on Embedded Intel® Architecture Processors]. Intel Corporation. May, 2010. | *Adrian Hoban. [http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323671.pdf Designing Real-Time Solutions on Embedded Intel® Architecture Processors]. Intel Corporation. May, 2010. | ||
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*[http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=420&pgno=0 Techarp: very good but poorly referenced article on ACPI standard] | *[http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=420&pgno=0 Techarp: very good but poorly referenced article on ACPI standard] | ||
:-Gives wakeup times, but don't know where they came from | :-Gives wakeup times, but don't know where they came from | ||
:-[http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=420&pgno=7 example power performance by P-states] | |||
=== DVFS Project Resources === | === DVFS Project Resources === | ||
Revision as of 02:44, 29 August 2010
DVFS, Wikipedia An article that need to be written.
Switching Overhead
- Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series, Datasheet Volume I. March 2010.
- -p. 168: "Processor core (including shared cache) is unavailable for less than 2us during the frequency transition."
- Power consumption table for 5600 by C-state
- -p. 167: "Processor C-State Power Specifications" table power consumption by C-state
- Adrian Hoban. Designing Real-Time Solutions on Embedded Intel® Architecture Processors. Intel Corporation. May, 2010.
- Power consumption table for several processors at different power management C-states
- Taylor Kidd. There's got to be a catch. Intel Software Blog. April 29, 2008 at 9:24 am
- -20us transition overhead for all C-states?
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Toshiba Corporations, and Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Revision 4.0a. April 5, 2010
- Power Efficiency – Analysis and SW Development Recommendations for Intel® Atom™ based MID platforms. Intel Software Network. May 4, 2009 9:00 PM PDT.
- -Overview charts on C-State configuration details wakeup times and power consumption
- -Gives wakeup times, but don't know where they came from
- -example power performance by P-states
DVFS Project Resources
- Concise references for DVFS project from 2003 using speedstep on an IBM Thinkpad
- Good linux kernel reference
- Topic: Addressing the power cost of switching overhead in DVFS processors.
Experimental Setup
DVFS Papers
- Isci, Martonosi, Buyuktosunoglu, "Long-term Workload Phases: Duration Predictions and Applications to DVFS
- Prediction and switching overhead
- "The Simulation and Evaluation of Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms", 1998
- "Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) Benchmarking on a Freescale’s iMX31 Multimedia Processor", SEP 2006
- "Dynamic Power-Performance Adaptation of Parallel Computation on Chip Multiprocessors"
- M. Pedram, K. Choi, R. Soma, "Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Precise Energy and Performance Tradeoff Based on the Ratio of Off-Chip Access to On-Chip Computation Times"
- "DVFS information from the University of Colorado"
- Zhu, Mueller, "Feedback EDF Scheduling Exploiting Hardware-Assisted Asynchronous Dynamic Voltage Scaling, North Carolina State University"
