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From: Emmanuel Ackaouy <ackaouy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VCPU affinity
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:01:45 +0100
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On Dec 18, 2006, at 16:56, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> What is the best way to pin VCPUs. It looks like the implementation of 
> affinity currently  is at best  only "soft".
>
> Regards,

VCPU affinity should not be soft. By the time the set affinity hypercall
returns, the VCPU in question should be running on a physical CPU
set in its affinity mask.

If it's not behaving this way then something is broken. Can you send
more details?