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Cores, Hyperthreads, and KVM



Hi all,

When I configure a KVM guest to have 2 vcpus, will that be 2 full cores?
Or will it give the guest both threads on the same real core? Or might
it use half of each of 2 different cores?

I guess the same applies to physical CPUs, too - there's presumably an
advantage in giving a VM a set of cores all on the same CPU, to take
advantage of shared caching - is that dealt with automatically?

I've always assumed that I should allocate even numbers of vcpus on an
HT capable machine, so that it keeps the threads together.

Does any of this matter?

Cheers,
Richard

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