On 6/10/20 2:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In KVM/QEMU you can also pin specific cores to your VM to prevent competition between the host and guest (mainly by avoiding cache pollution as I understand it).
CPU affinity can improve performance for NUMA systems, and does improve cache efficiency, but it does not (to my knowledge) prevent competition between the host and guest.
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