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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH][v3] tools/power turbostat: if --max_loop, print for specific time of loops
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:18:44 -0700
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On 2018.04.11 03:31 Yu Chen wrote: 

> From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
>
> There's a use case during test to only print specific round of loops
> if --iterations is specified, for example, with this patch applied:
>
> turbostat -i 5 -t 4
> will capture 4 samples with 5 seconds interval.

Hi Yu,

This would be a very useful addition to turbostat.
Please also update the man turbostat man page.

tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8

... Doug