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I want to get the current CPUPower governor.

When I type cpupower frequency-info I get a lot of information. I just want to get the governor, just like "ondemand" with no more information, to use its value in a program.

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The current governor can be obtained as follows:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Note that cpu* will give you the scaling governor of all your cores and not just e.g. cpu0.

This solution might be system dependent, though. I'm not 100% sure this is portable.

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    Working in Fedora 23! With cpupower frequency-info --governors you can see the governors and with cpupower frequency-info --governor <gov> you can set it.
    – Facundo Victor
    Commented May 23, 2016 at 18:21
  • Wow! That is so user-friendly that it boggles the mind!
    – Theodore R. Smith
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 13:19
  • still works in fedora 40. to change to performance mode (if supported)... dnf install kernel-tools ... cpupower frequency-set --governor performance .
    – Vigrond
    Commented Sep 10 at 13:07
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In the latest Fedora release (26 alpha) on my Ryzen 7 system, I did this:

Fedora 26 alpha didn't have cpupower installed - so get it:

dnf install kernel-tools

This installs /etc/sysconfig/cpupower which should set performance level by default (edit the first line if you want a different level):

CPUPOWER_START_OPTS="frequency-set -g performance"
CPUPOWER_STOP_OPTS="frequency-set -g ondemand"

Now the critical bit - enable and start the cpupower service

systemctl enable --now cpupower

Confirm that performance level is set:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Reboot and repeat that cat command to confirm still performance

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