[Gems-users] "DYNAMIC_AF" or "STATIC_AF", question about opal power

[Guoqiang Yang <nkyangguoqiang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I'm back again~

I am now trying to see the power consumed every N cycles. To do so, I 
call "update_power_status" every N cycles, and dump the variable 
"current_COMPONENT_NAME_power_cc3". After I got this information I found 
that the register file power and result bus power is zero!!!
So I checked opal/power/power.C[.h], i found it had something to do with 
STATIC_AF and DYNAMIC_AF. Since "window_af_b" is increased by function 
"incrementWinNumPopCount" defined in power.h, but that function is never 
invoked, so i was using STATIC_AF instead of DYNAMIC_AF, and then I 
found that those variables "current_COMPONENT_NAME_power_cc3" seemed to 
be forgotten using "STATIC_AF".
Any idea about this? Also, I found another function 
"output_periodic_power", it seems to me that "output_periodic_power" 
really dumps the total cc3 power of each component, but I don't know 
much about it. Am I doing the right thing to use "update_power_status"?
Many thanks,

Guoqiang Yang