From 1626fca07e08c11629dc3cfc7e500339fac22ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adithya Kumar <adithya@composewell.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 23:46:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note on CPU scaling

---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 236d401..9c02456 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ Enable unrestricted use of perf counters:
 # echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
 ```
 
+## Disable CPU scaling
+
+Set the scaling governer of all your cpus to `performance`:
+
+```
+echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
+echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
+...
+...
+echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/cpufreq/scaling_governor
+```
+
 ## Generating the eventlog
 
 To generate the event log, we need to compile the program with the eventlog enabled