Host IRQ Affinity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IRQs are pinned to core 0. The same configuration is applied in host Linux and guest VM. :: $ for l in `ls /proc/irq`; do echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/irq/$l/smp_affinity; done Host RCU Affinity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RCUs are pinned to core 0. The same configuration is applied in host Linux and guest VM. :: $ for i in `pgrep rcu[^c]` ; do sudo taskset -pc 0 $i ; done Host Writeback Affinity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Writebacks are pinned to core 0. The same configuration is applied in host Linux and guest VM. :: $ echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/writeback/cpumask