A New CPU, Power Monitoring Utility

[renkin]

Shouldn't it be 's/Liano/Llano'?

[deanjo]

It puts out some nice info:

./cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: powernow-k8
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 8.0 us.
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 3.20 GHz
  available frequency steps: 3.20 GHz, 2.40 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave, ondemand, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 3.20 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 3.20 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
  boost state support: 
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
    Boost States: 1
    Total States: 5
    Pstate-Pb0: 3600MHz (boost state)
    Pstate-P0:  3200MHz
    Pstate-P1:  2400MHz
    Pstate-P2:  1600MHz
    Pstate-P3:  800MHz

[plonoma]

Linux should have a very general hardware information (monitoring) API instead of these projects.

Now that I have that out, the cpu/gpu utility is a good idea I'm fully in favor of it.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A New CPU, Power Monitoring Utility

Thomas Renninger of SuSE has announced cpupowerutils, a new free software project derived from cpufrequtils that is designed to offer much more thorough and advanced support for CPU usage/power monitoring and other performance statistics...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTIwNg