962715 - [meta] Create Talos tests for Firefox power use

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vladan Djeric (:vladan)]

We need regression tests for Firefox power consumption in common uses cases, e.g. browser idle with 0 tabs, browser idling on popular websites, video playback, etc.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

I am not sure if making this a talos test would be the best use.  We could add it to the talos harness, but it won't be run as part of normal talos. If we need to do something out of band, I would rather make this simpler and not have it conform 100% to talos proper.

Comment 2

[Roberto Agostino Vitillo (:rvitillo)]

It could also be worth to track the number of idle wakeups and the number of cycles spent executing FF code on the CPU. On Linux this could be quite feasible using the perf subsystem by tracing the context switches (sched:sched_switch), wakeups (sched:sched_wakeup) and the C-states of the CPU (power:cpu_idle). I suspect that it would be enough, at least initially, to collect that sort of data only on a single platform to provide us with useful metrics.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The meta keyword is there, the bug doesn't depend on other bugs and there is no activity for 12 months.
:Dolske, maybe it's time to close this bug?

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Redirecting NI to reporter

Comment 5

[Vladan Djeric (:vladan)]

I stopped working at Mozilla in early 2016 :) Fwiw, I'm ok with closing this

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Thanks, I think as it hasn't been actively used, I'll close it. If we need it, we'll reopen or file a new one.