Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:37:54PM -0700, hong zhang wrote: > > List, > > I am using powertop version 1.10 on my Lenovo laptop with a wifi device > iwlagn. Powertop display is different from what I see in > www.linuxpowertop.org. > > I want to measure power consumption or wakeup latency against my wifi device > that is represented by iwlagn. See > > 14.9% ( 77.3) <interrupt> : iwlagn > > My question is what 77.3 means here. Does 77.3 mean power consumption or > wakeup latency? How does powertop provide power consumption and wakeup > latency for my wifi device?
If I'm not entirely mistaken 77.3 means 77.3 wakeups within the last interval which translated into 14.9% of the total number of wakeups there. I don't know of WLAN wakeup latency requirements of a card/driver being displayed by powertop currently. Andreas Mohr _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
