Kok, Auke wrote:
> nisha jain wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thanks alot for the information. I will search androit related information.
>> I have one more question does ACPI HW support is not enough to measure the 
>> power information?
> 
> depends on what you want to measure.
> 
>> I think all intel platforms support ACPI hw that's why i choose it. Also i 
>> have tried modifying the powertop code to
>> see the cpu1 c and p states and not able to get any results. Can some one 
>> guide me on that?
> 
> you can just read out /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
> 
> (for instance)
> 
>> I have duplicated the same code as for the cpu0 and reading the states files 
>> in similar fashion.
>>
>> I have a query on the code why there are two consecutive these calls in main 
>> function
>> I have tried alot but not able to figure it out so far -
>>
>> do_proc_irq() // line 1012
>> do_proc_irq() // line 1013
>> ....
>>
>> My understanding is that it is to identify the interrupt generated but why 
>> called twice is not clear.
> 
> no idea, arjan?
> 

we do incremental measurement (eg we need to calculate a delta).
During the startup of powertop we call several of these function twice, so that 
at that point
we have a valid delta (0) ...

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