From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuanhan Liu Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Green goal: power efficiency with all hardwares Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:56:40 +0800 Message-ID: <20170911085640.GV9736@yliu-home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Thomas Monjalon , bugzilla@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f51.google.com (mail-pg0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C187CB6 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:56:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id v66so14188941pgb.5 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Congratulations for filing the first DPDK bug :) --yliu On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 08:43:05AM +0000, bugzilla@dpdk.org wrote: > http://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=1 > > Bug ID: 1 > Summary: Green goal: power efficiency with all hardwares > Product: DPDK > Version: unspecified > Hardware: All > OS: All > Status: CONFIRMED > Severity: normal > Priority: Normal > Component: other > Assignee: dev@dpdk.org > Reporter: thomas@monjalon.net > Target Milestone: 17.11 > > Internet infrastructures have a large environmental impact. > We need more and more machines, implying more manufacturing, more shipping, > more powering and more cooling. > > With DPDK, every CPU cycle matters in order to achieve a high throughput. > It helps to reduce the number of required machines for maximum load. > Using machine capabilities at best is a case of power efficiency. > > There in another case to consider regarding our energy footprint. > When the machines are not under heavy load, we can reduce powering and cooling. > This case requires power management to be well integrated with DPDK systems. > > Last but not the least, the power efficiency must be considered for every > hardwares used in datacenters and telecom equipments. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are the assignee for the bug.