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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] tools/power turbostat: if --max_loop, print for
 specific time of loops
From:   Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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        Yu Chen <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
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Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:53:35 +0300
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On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 12:22 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Yu Chen <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
> > 
> > There's a use case during test to only print specific round of
> > loops
> > if --interval is specified, for example, with this patch applied:
> > 
> > turbostat -i 5 --max_loops 4
> > will capture 4 samples with 5 seconds interval.
> 
> Why --max_loops and not just --loops or --iterations?

Or just --count.

Artem.