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Linux's Turbostat Utility Can Now Be Used For Reading Intel PMT Counters


Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics

Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics. Intel Platform Monitoring Technology is one of their newer ways of exposing telemetry across client, server, and companion products. One of the initial focuses with this PMT integration is for Turbostat to be able to report Meteor Lake's DC6 residency metrics to user-space.

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