Re: [PATCH RESEND] tools: add power/x86/turbostat - v2
From: Otavio Salvador
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 12:16:55 EST
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> turbostat displays actual processor frequency on modern
> Intel processors. Note that this capability depends on free-running
> APERF and MPERF MSRs, which were cleared by the acpi_cpufreq
> driver up through Linux-2.6.29.
>
> On Intel Core i3/i5/i7 (Nehalem) and newer processors,
> turbostat displays residency in idle power saving states.
>
> See the comments in the source code for example usage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Otavio Salvador
Reviewed-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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