commit: 7a0864d7cdd49d0f9ab45248bfd28af2518551b9 Author: Vitaly Zdanevich <zdanevich.vitaly <AT> ya <DOT> ru> AuthorDate: Fri Jun 2 05:14:53 2023 +0000 Commit: Vitaly Zdanevich <zdanevich.vitaly <AT> ya <DOT> ru> CommitDate: Fri Jun 2 05:14:53 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/commit/?id=7a0864d7
sys-apps/corefreq: longdescription add Signed-off-by: Vitaly Zdanevich <zdanevich.vitaly <AT> ya.ru> sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml index 1184002b6..e0411fbbb 100644 --- a/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml @@ -6,4 +6,25 @@ <email>zdanevich.vit...@ya.ru</email> <name>Vitaly Zdanevich</name> </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> +CoreFreq provides a framework to retrieve CPU data with a high degree of precision: + +* Core frequencies and ratios; SpeedStep (EIST), Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading (HTT) and Base Clock +* Performance counters including Time Stamp Counter (TSC), Unhalted Core Cycles (UCC), Unhalted Reference Cycles (URC) +* Number of instructions per cycle or second, IPS, IPC, or CPI +* CPU C-States C0 C1 C3 C6 C7 - C1E - Auto/UnDemotion of C1 C3 +* DTS Temperature and Tjunction Max, Thermal Monitoring TM1 TM2 state, Vcore +* Topology map including Caches for boostrap and application CPU +* Processor features, brand and architecture strings +* In progress: Uncore, Memory Controller channels and geometry, DIMM timings, +* Stress tools, Power and Energy (RAPL, P-State, HWP, TDP), Overclocking, cpuidle and cpufreq driver, ClockSource, Mitigation Mechanisms + +To reach this goal, CoreFreq implements a Linux Kernel module which employs the followings: + +* asm code to keep as near as possible the readings of the performance counters; +* per-CPU, implements slab data memory and high-resolution timer; +* compliant with suspend / resume and CPU Hot-Plug; +* a shared memory to protect kernel from the user-space part of the software; +* atomic synchronization of threads to avoid mutexes and deadlock + </longdescription> </pkgmetadata>