[Powertop] PowerTOP 2.0 bugs

Hi list,

I read that PowerTOP 2.0 was released yesterday, so I decided to give
it a run again. First I saw some discrepancy in the CPU usage reported
by PowerTOP. So I ran "while true; do openssl speed aes -multi 4;
done" to utilize all my 4 CPU cores at 100%. htop displays utilization
4x100% all the time. PowerTOP thinks:

Summary: 0.2 wakeups/second,  0.0 GPU ops/second, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and
187.1% CPU use

               Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
            1816 ms/s      0.00        Process        openssl speed
aes -multi 4

The usage numbers are clearly bogus.

Then I remembered that I already reported some bugs about the PowerTOP
2.0 beta release I tested in January 2011:

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(a)juffo.org> wrote:
> First, I also see an empty "Idle stats" screen, as reported by Ian
> Kumlien earlier. Old PowerTOP didn't report idle state statistics
> either, but at least it had an explanatory message.

"Idle stats page" is still empty:

         Package   |            CPU 0
                   |            CPU 1
                   |            CPU 2
                   |            CPU 3

> Fourth, the "Frequency stats" screen starts up showing good numbers,
> but after the first refresh, all per-core numbers turn bogus. For each
> core, the percentages always add up to 1895% !

Still occurs, but now the magic constant is always 1961.1%

           Package |            CPU 0
Idle         0.0%   | Idle         0.6%
 800 MHz     0.0%   |  800 MHz     0.4%
3.00 GHz   100.0%   | 3.00 GHz   1960.1%
1.80 GHz     0.0%   | 2.31 GHz     0.0%
2.31 GHz     0.0%   |

                   |            CPU 1
                   | Idle         2.6%
                   |  800 MHz     0.3%
                   | 3.00 GHz   1958.1%
                   | 2.31 GHz     0.0%
                   |

                   |            CPU 2
                   | Idle         2.0%
                   |  800 MHz     0.3%
                   | 3.00 GHz   1958.8%
                   | 1.80 GHz     0.0%
                   | 2.31 GHz     0.0%

                   |            CPU 3
                   | Idle         1.9%
                   |  800 MHz     0.2%
                   | 3.00 GHz   1958.7%
                   | 1.80 GHz     0.3%
                   | 2.31 GHz     0.0%

Can anyone remind me why do you do beta releases and why should users
spend their time reporting bugs?

Regards,
Marti