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From: "Ky Srinivasan" <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Subject: Re: VCPU affinity
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:08:13 -0700
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I am chasing a bug we seem to be hitting where we are not able to specify the binding; will let you know once I know more.

Regards,

K. Y

>>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:01 AM, in message
<0951ba397e5752bf7a54f5ecaf67ad4e@gmail.com>, Emmanuel Ackaouy
<ackaouy@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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?