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Chameleon: application level power management with performance isolation

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Prashant Shenoy,

Mark CornerAuthors Info & Claims

MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

Pages 839 - 848

https://doi.org/10.1145/1101149.1101332

Published: 06 November 2005 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present Chameleon---an application-level power management approach for reducing energy consumption in mobile processors. Our approach exports the entire responsibility of power management decisions to the application level. We propose an operating system interface that can be used by applications to achieve energy savings. We consider three classes of applications---soft real-time, interactive and batch---and design user-level power management strategies for representative applications such as a movie player, a word processor, a web browser, and a batch compiler. We also design a user level power manager based on GraceOS using Chameleon. We implement our approach in the Linux kernel running on a Sony Transmeta laptop. Our experiments show that, compared to the traditional system-wide CPU voltage scaling approaches, Chameleon can achieve up to 32-50% energy savings while delivering comparable or better performance to applications. Further, Chameleon imposes small overheads and is very effective at scheduling concurrent applications with diverse energy needs.

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Chameleon: application level power management with performance isolation
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
        Scheduling
    2. Software system structures
      1. Embedded software
      2. Real-time systems software

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MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

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ISBN:1595930442

DOI:10.1145/1101149

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