On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:52:25AM GMT, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Since commit 9b9e4f5d06be55f4b9e1a52b448055933df92c6b
> from four years ago, lscpu lists also an item like this:
>
> CPU(s) scaling MHz: 61%
>
> The printed value is a percentage, not a frequency, so the
> "MHz" should not be there, I think -- the percentage would
> be the same no matter whether the frequencies (in other items)
> are shown in kHz or MHz or GHz.
lscpu only uses MHz (as well as the kernel in /sys), but you are
correct that "CPU(s) frequency scaling" sounds better.
> I would provide a patch, but the message occurs in a dozen
> or more tests. And probably the column name needs to be
> changed too, from SCALMHZ% to FREQSCAL% or SCALING%?
I am doubtful that we can alter column names. The usual recommendation
is to use "-o <colname>" to obtain output for the script. Changing a
column name would cause a backwardly incompatible modification. It may
be feasible to introduce a column alias, but I am uncertain if it
would be worthwhile.
Karel
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