Rafael Vanoni <> wrote:
> Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> Rafael Vanoni wrote:
>>
>>> Pat picked up a bug in the previous patch, here's a better one.
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>>> Rafael Vanoni wrote:
>>>> Here's a patch for
>>>>
>>>> # RFE to have PowerTOP have an option to specify number of iterations
>>>>
>>>> This functionality is useful for users who'd like to include the
>>>> output of PowerTOP in automated scripts. It's basically an extension
>>>> of the -d mode that causes the tool to dump output for a specified
>>>> number of iterations.
>>>>
>>>> For instance,
>>>>
>>>> powertop 3
>>>>
>>>> powertop -t 1 3
>>>>
>>>> powertop 3 -t 1
>>>>
>>>> are all valid PowerTOP options with this patch.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>>
>>
>> I like this idea, it makes more sense to dump the report into a file.
>> PowerTOP now supports UI mode and dump mode.
>> But the new option looks a bit confused. How about user want to iterate
>> 3 times
>> and exit in UI mode?(Although it's not supported now and may not be
>> reasonable).
>> The idea actually put PowerTOP iteration into dump mode. So, my idea is:
>>
>> #./powertop --help
>> usage: powertop [OPTION...]
>>     -d, --dump [count]                Read wakeups count times and print list
>> of top offenders
>>     -t,  --time double                Default time to gather data in seconds
>> [1 - 100s]
>>     -v, --verbose             Verbose mode, reports kernel cyclic
>> activity
>>     -h, --help                        Show this help message
>> #./powertop -d 3
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I agree. Is the rest of the implementation okay ?
>
> thanks
> Rafael

Yeah, the rest looks good.

Thanks,
-Aubrey

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