{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.services.throttled; in { options = { services.throttled = { enable = mkEnableOption "fix for Intel CPU throttling"; extraConfig = mkOption { type = types.str; default = ""; description = "Alternative configuration"; }; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable { systemd.packages = [ pkgs.throttled ]; # The upstream package has this in Install, but that's not enough, see the NixOS manual systemd.services.lenovo_fix.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; environment.etc."lenovo_fix.conf".source = if cfg.extraConfig != "" then pkgs.writeText "lenovo_fix.conf" cfg.extraConfig else "${pkgs.throttled}/etc/lenovo_fix.conf"; # Kernel 5.9 spams warnings whenever userspace writes to CPU MSRs. # See https://github.com/erpalma/throttled/issues/215 boot.kernelParams = optional (versionAtLeast config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.version "5.9") "msr.allow_writes=on"; }; }