diff --git a/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml index 1184002b6a..e0411fbbb6 100644 --- a/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-apps/corefreq/metadata.xml @@ -6,4 +6,25 @@ zdanevich.vitaly@ya.ru Vitaly Zdanevich + +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 +