Hi everyone,

(regarding the list, the home page is https://lists.netdevconf.info/postorius/lists/net-power.netdevconf.info/)

I think we don’t have a lot of subscribers yet to this list (hey Jamal you should subscribe!) – invite your power-concerned friends and colleagues.

Toke and I were chatting offline about this problem of power management in networking.

We thought it might be a useful start to figure out a good set of benchmarks to demonstrate “power vs networking” problems. I have a couple in mind right away. One is “system is sleeping but I’m trying to run a latency sensitive workload and the latency sucks” Two is “system is sleeping and my single-threaded bulk throughput benchmark (netperf/iperf2/neper/etc) shows a lot of retransmits and / or receiver drops”

Another thought is how do I count these events and / or notice I have a problem?

More thoughts on this from anyone?

Jesse