[Kernel-meetup] Pune Kernel meetup May 2017 [Meeting minutes]

[Pankaj Gupta]

Thanks Amit for the good session and sharing your 
experience with 'Power Management' and related areas.

Best regards,
Pankaj

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks all for attending this months kernel meetup.
> Around 15 people attended the May kernel meetup which
> happened in Reserved-Bit. Also, we had some good
> discussions on various topics:
> 
> Meet-up started with talk on 'Overview of Power management'
> by 'Amit Kucheria' and discussion went on various subsystems
> related with performance and throughput on different architectures.
> 
> Also, Amit shared how different working groups solved various
> problems upstream and now all the architectures are now getting
> benefited with the effort.
> 
> Some of the topics which Amit touched are:
> 
> * SOC Architecture
> * Power vs Performance
> * Power and thermal effect
> * CPUfreq, CPUIdle and other regulator
> * C states and performance effect
> * Cache impact with different C-states
> * Memory and power management
> * CPUfreq vs CPUIdle
> * Dynamic Ticks
> * CPU Hotplug and power management
> * Runtime PM & OPP framework
> * Thermal framework
> * Power management stack
> * Some discussion on scheduler type like CFS, EAS, SCHEDULE_DEADLINE & RT.
> * Use PowerTOP tool to start working on power issues.
>  
> Over all discussion started with power management and went on to
> topics like throughput, latency, hardware accelerators, memory and
> scheduler.
> 
> After meetup ended still discussion continued on various topics
> related to chip design, memory, cpu, caches and people started sharing
> their experiences on various issues they faced and asked for suggestions.
> 
> Overall it was a nice experience and I enjoyed it :-)
> 
> Hoping to see all for next meetup, Siddhesh will send a doodle vote-up
> for date selection.
> 
> Feel free to add if I missed anything.
> 
> Best regards,
> Pankaj
> 
> 
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