Finding Available Governors
You can use any as you please.
To find what governors are available from your CPU, execute the following cat command to view CPU information.
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
Applying CPU Governor
As seen in the example output, we have performance available to us. Let’s go ahead and use cpupower to apply it.
sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance
Checking CPU Clock Speeds
We can utilize cpupower to print out information about our speeds.
sudo cpupower monitor
| Mperf || RAPL || Idle_Stats
CPU| C0 | Cx | Freq || pack | core || POLL | C1 | C2
0| 0.79| 99.21| 4136||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.44| 98.80
8| 0.05| 99.95| 4189||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.84| 99.13
1| 28.09| 71.91| 4196||44464207|1176026|| 0.01| 0.69| 71.29
9| 0.88| 99.12| 4246||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.04| 99.13
2| 23.87| 76.13| 4222||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.64| 75.58
10| 0.79| 99.21| 4249||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.00| 99.25
3| 19.94| 80.06| 4217||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 1.17| 78.95
11| 0.72| 99.28| 4248||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.01| 99.31
4| 16.99| 83.01| 4172||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.85| 82.16
12| 0.63| 99.37| 4217||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.00| 99.41
5| 13.35| 86.65| 4181||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.43| 86.22
13| 0.60| 99.40| 4227||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.02| 99.41
6| 11.63| 88.37| 4178||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.42| 87.95
14| 0.48| 99.52| 4225||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.00| 99.56
7| 11.01| 88.99| 4179||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.08| 88.97
15| 0.63| 99.37| 4211||44464207|1176026|| 0.00| 0.02| 99.36
As you can see, I’m now averaging 4.15Ghz instead of my stock 3.8Ghz.