cpupower-governors

Enables the ability to swap between kernel governors for the CPU useful for laptops.

• Balanced: Mode controlled by the schedutil governor. Frequency changes dynamically and in a smart way.
• Performance: Run the CPU at the maximum frequency.
• Powersave: Run the CPU at the minimum frequency.

Requirements

• cpupower.
• pkexec, which is from polkit.

Tested on Gnome 3.38.1

Persistance

If you would like to define a governor on boot, check cpupower manual. Normally, it consists of two steps:

1. Edit /etc/default/cpupower accordingly.
2. Enable the service systemctl enable cpupower.service.