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From: Simon Martin <furryfuttock@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Strange interdependace between domains
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:28:19 +0000
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> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 16:56 +0000, Simon Martin wrote:
>> I can't understand this as disk activity should be running on cores 0,
>> 1  and 2, but never on core 3. The only thing running on core 3 should
>> by my paravirtual machine and the hypervisor stub.
>> 
>> Any idea what's going on?

> Is core 3 actual a hyperthread -- IOW it is sharing processor execution
> resources with e.g. core 2. Or shared L2 caches etc.

> Ian.

Thanks  Ian.  Very good point. It is a hyperthread. I will reconfigure
tomorrow, retest and let you know, but that make sense.

Regards.


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 Simon                            mailto:furryfuttock@gmail.com