lscpu uses unfitting "MHz" in frequency scaling item

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:52:25 +0100

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.util-linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

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.  So I propose to change the
message to:

   CPU(s) frequency scaling: 61%

Or abbreviated:

   CPU(s) freq. scaling: 61%


[In Dutch I'm translating it as if it said:

     CPU(s) frequency level: 61%

as the word "scaling" here is untranslatable.]


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%?


Benno

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