Does anyone know the history of these files? They were introduced in the initial commit to kernel-ark back in July of 2019.

I've been staring at them for a while and I cannot figure out exactly why they exist. Coincidentally, I received a RHEL bug report this week about the service today where a customer upgraded to 8.7 (from 8.6). Due to new features in the intel_pstate driver, the cpupower.service now fails to start.

I don't see the service providing any actual benefit. We've been using tuned to control much of it and I think the service and config files for cpupower can be removed.

Thoughts?

P.