Intel Corporation
SOFTWARE ENTITY POWER CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION AND MONITORING

Abstract:

Telemetry information in the form of platform telemetry, virtualization layer telemetry, and application telemetry can be used to estimate power consumption of a software entity, such as a virtual machine, container, application, or network slice. A controller can take various actions based on software entity power consumption information. If a power limit of an integrated circuit component is exceeded, the controller can reduce the power consumption of a software entity or move the software entity to another integrated circuit component to reduce the power consumption of the integrated circuit component. The controller can determine a total software entity power consumption for software entities associated with a user entity and take actions to keep the total software entity power consumption within a power budget.