We are pleased to announce that the Power Management and Thermal Control Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!

Power management and thermal control is an important area in the Linux ecosystem to help with the global environment. Optimizing the amount of work that is achieved while having long battery life and keeping the box from overheating is critical in today’s world. This meeting will focus on continuing to have Linux be an efficient operating system while still lowering the cost of running a data center.

Last year’s meetup at Linux Plumbers resulted in the introduction of thermal pressure support into the CPU scheduler as well as several improvements to the thermal framework, such as a netlink implementation of thermal notification and improvements to CPU cooling. Discussions from last year also helped to improve systems-wide suspend testing tools.

This year’s topics to be discussed include:

• Power capping based on the Energy Model
• Energy Model evolution possibilities
• Regression and performance testing of system-wide suspend
• Warming support in the thermal framework
• Use of running average of temperature for thermal thresholds
• Hardware Feedback Interface support and CPU offline
• CPU power management improvements
• Device power management (runtime PM and system-wide PM) improvements
• Consumer-producer workloads, power distribution

Come and join us in the discussion about extending the battery life of your laptop and keeping it cool.

We hope to see you there!