`psi_avgs_work` shows up in PowerTOP

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Johannes,


On the Dell Latitude E7250 with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.6.7, 
running `powertop`, `psi_avgs_work` shows up there with 40 mW to 60 mW.

> The battery reports a discharge rate of 7.16 W
> The power consumed was 147 J
> The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 31 minutes
>
> Summary: 795.2 wakeups/second,  0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 16.8% CPU use
>
> Power est.              Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
>   2.62 W      5.5 ms/s     328.9        Timer          tick_sched_timer
>   817 mW     21.9 ms/s      99.9        Process        [PID 519673] firefox
>   521 mW      3.2 ms/s      65.1        Process        [PID 519710] firefox
>   270 mW      1.9 ms/s      33.8        Timer          hrtimer_wakeup
>   261 mW      0.4 pkts/s                Device         Network interface: eno1 (e1000e)
>   162 mW      4.7 ms/s      19.8        Process        [PID 520008] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
>   156 mW      4.0 ms/s      19.1        Process        [PID 519728] firefox
>   146 mW     16.0 ms/s      16.4        Process        [PID 72917] /usr/bin/gnome-shell
>   125 mW      5.8 ms/s      15.0        Process        [PID 518973] /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
>   121 mW    160.7 us/s      15.2        Process        [PID 11] [rcu_sched]
>   117 mW      5.2 ms/s      14.1        Process        [PID 520003] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
>   100 mW    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Fujitsu Keyboard (Fujitsu)
>   100 mW    100.0%                      Device         USB device: Jolla (Jolla)
>   100 mW      0.0%                      Device         Display backlight
>   100 mW    100.0%                      Device         USB device: USB Optical Mouse (Logitech)
>  95.4 mW    605.7 us/s      11.9        Process        [PID 519018] /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
>  91.3 mW      4.0 ms/s      11.0        Process        [PID 519906] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
>  84.9 mW     45.2 ms/s       5.0        kWork          intel_atomic_commit_work
>  80.1 mW      1.1 ms/s       9.9        Interrupt      [0] HI_SOFTIRQ
>  76.6 mW     30.1 us/s       9.6        kWork          kfree_rcu_monitor
>  75.8 mW     58.0 us/s       9.5        kWork          kfree_rcu_work
>  74.5 mW    269.4 us/s       9.3        kWork          engine_retire
>  62.5 mW      1.7 ms/s       7.6        Process        [PID 73223] ibus-daemon --panel disable -r --xim
>  59.6 mW     73.5 us/s       7.5        kWork          psi_avgs_work
>  56.9 mW      8.1 ms/s       6.1        Process        [PID 72956] /usr/bin/Xwayland :0 -rootless -norese
>  54.7 mW      4.7 ms/s       6.3        Interrupt      [7] sched(softirq)
>  54.0 mW     32.1 us/s       6.8        Timer          intel_uncore_fw_release_timer
> [â]

Is that expected to show? I guess due to the granularity it is?


Kind regards,

Paul