power management

[BurningMemory]

I've checked the power management and cpu freq scaling pages, but I want to know
if anyone here has any other suggestions on proper battery care. I have a thinkpad E15, which I recently
installed gentoo on. I use TLP and the "performance" governor in the kernel config,
although TLP sets it to "powersave" in battery mode. The problem is that my battery
degrated relatively significantly in the few months of lightweight work, other than
compiling of course
My CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Kernel config: https://0x0.st/Xcqo.txt

[xgivolari]

By battery care, do you mean battery life (i.e. the laptop draws too much power on battery) or battery health (i.e. the battery has lost capacity)? Because the latter has little to do with power management, i.e. which cpu governor you select, etc...

To preserve the health of your battery, the most effective tool is charge thresholds. Thinkpads support these out of the box with the thinkpad-acpi kernel driver. To verify support on your machine, there should be a directory /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 which contains, among other things, files named charge_control_end_threshold and charge_control_start_threshold. You can even set these limits via tlp.conf Check out the corresponding tlp wiki page for more info.

[BurningMemory]

[spica]