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    Mind posting actual commands how you achieved this?<br>
    <br>
    All im doing now is this:<br>
    <blockquote type="cite">cset set -c 0-3 system<br>
      cset proc -m -f root -t system -k<br>
    </blockquote>
    <blockquote type="cite">  <vcpu
      placement='static'>4</vcpu><br>
        <cputune><br>
          <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/><br>
          <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/><br>
          <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='6'/><br>
          <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/><br>
          <emulatorpin cpuset='0-3'/><br>
        </cputune></blockquote>
    Basically this puts most of threads to 0-3 cores including emulator
    threads. Some threads cant be moved though so they remain on 4-7
    cores. VM is given 4-7 cores. It works better but there is still
    much to be desired.<br>
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    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016.01.09 15:59, Quentin Deldycke
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote
cite="mid:CAHYLta5DBko3xcE=zOhD49ybm-+peUCu53biR0UxPHbr4D9Z9g@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">Hello,
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Using cpuset, i was using the vm with:</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Core 0: threads 0 & 4: linux + emulator pin</div>
        <div>Core 1,2,3: threads 1,2,3,5,6,7: windows</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I tested with:</div>
        <div>Core 0: threads 0 & 4: linux</div>
        <div>Core 1,2,3: threads 1,2,3: windows</div>
        <div>Core 1,2,3: threads 5,6,7: emulator</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>The difference between both is huge (DPC latency is mush
          more stable):</div>
        <div>Performance on single core went up to 50% (cinebench ratio
          by core from 100 to 150 points)</div>
        <div>Performance on gpu went up to 20% (cinebench from 80fps to
          100+)</div>
        <div>Performance on "heroes of the storm" went from 20~30 fps to
          stable 60 (and much time more than 100)</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>(performance of Unigine Heaven went from 2700 points to
          3100 points)</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>The only sad thing is that i have the 3 idle threads which
          are barely used... Is there any way to put them back to
          windows?</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">--
                <div>Deldycke Quentin<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On 29 December 2015 at 17:38, Michael
            Bauer <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:michael@m-bauer.org" target="_blank">michael@m-bauer.org</a>></span>
            wrote:<br>
            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I noticed that
                attaching a DVD-Drive from the host leads to HUGE
                delays. I had attached my /dev/sr0 to the guest and even
                without a DVD in the drive this was causing huge lag
                about once per second.<br>
                <br>
                Best regards<span><font color="#888888"><br>
                    Michael</font></span>
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                  <div><br>
                    <br>
                    <div>Am 28.12.2015 um 19:30 schrieb rndbit:<br>
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                    <blockquote type="cite"> 4000μs-16000μs here, its
                      terrible.<br>
                      Tried whats said on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=43126.15"
                        target="_blank">https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=43126.15</a><br>
                      Its a bit better with this:<br>
                      <blockquote type="cite">  <vcpu
                        placement='static'>4</vcpu><br>
                          <cputune><br>
                            <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/><br>
                            <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/><br>
                            <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='6'/><br>
                            <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/><br>
                            <emulatorpin cpuset='0-3'/><br>
                          </cputune></blockquote>
                      I tried <i>isolcpus</i> but it did not yield
                      visible benefits. <i>ndis.sys</i> is big offender
                      here but i dont really understand why. Removing
                      network interface from VM makes <i>usbport.sys</i>
                      take over as biggest offender. All this happens
                      with <i>performance</i> governor of all cpu
                      cores:<br>
                      <blockquote type="cite">echo performance | tee
                        /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
                        >/dev/null</blockquote>
                      Cores remain clocked at 4k mhz. I dont know what
                      else i could try. Does anyone have any ideas..?<br>
                      <br>
                      <div>On 2015.10.29 08:03, Eddie Yen wrote:<br>
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                        <div dir="ltr">I tested again with VM reboot, I
                          found that this time is about 1000~1500<span
                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">μs.</span><br>
                          <div><span
                              style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Also
                              I found that it easily get high while hard
                              drive is loading, but only few times.</span></div>
                          <div><br>
                          </div>
                          <div><span
                              style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Which
                              specs you're using? Maybe it depends on
                              CPU or patches.</span></div>
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                          <div class="gmail_quote">2015-10-29 13:44
                            GMT+08:00 Blank Field <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com"
                                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com">ihatethisfield@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                              <p dir="ltr">If i understand it right,
                                this software has a fixed latency error
                                of 1 ms(1000us) in windows 8-10 due to
                                different kernel timer implementation.
                                So i guess your latency is very good.</p>
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                                <div>
                                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 29,
                                    2015 8:40 AM, "Eddie Yen" <<a
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:missile0407@gmail.com"
                                      target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:missile0407@gmail.com">missile0407@gmail.com</a></a>>

                                    wrote:<br type="attribution">
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                                      <div dir="ltr">Thanks for
                                        information! And sorry I don'r
                                        read carefully at beginning
                                        message.
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>For my result, I got about
                                          1000<span
                                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">μs

                                            below and only few times got
                                            1000</span><span
                                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">μs

                                            above when idling.</span></div>
                                        <div><span
                                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>
                                          </span></div>
                                        <div><span
                                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I'm


                                            using 4820K and used 4
                                            threads to VM, also  I set
                                            these 4 threads as 4 cores
                                            in VM settings.</span></div>
                                        <div><span
                                            style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The


                                            OS is Windows 10.</span></div>
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                                      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                        <div class="gmail_quote">2015-10-29
                                          13:21 GMT+08:00 Blank Field <span
                                            dir="ltr"><<a
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                                              href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com"
                                              target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ihatethisfield@gmail.com">ihatethisfield@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                                            <p dir="ltr">I think they're
                                              using this:<br>
                                              <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml" target="_blank">www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml</a></p>
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                                              <div>
                                                <div class="gmail_quote">On
                                                  Oct 29, 2015 6:11 AM,
                                                  "Eddie Yen" <<a
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:missile0407@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:missile0407@gmail.com">missile0407@gmail.com</a></a>>


                                                  wrote:<br
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                                                    <div dir="ltr">Sorry,
                                                      but how to check
                                                      DPC Latency?</div>
                                                    <div
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                                                      <div
                                                        class="gmail_quote">2015-10-29


                                                        10:08 GMT+08:00
                                                        Nick Sukharev <span
                                                          dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:nicksukharev@gmail.com"
                                                          target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nicksukharev@gmail.com">nicksukharev@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                                                          <div dir="ltr">I
                                                          just checked
                                                          on W7 and I
                                                          get <span
                                                          style="font-size:12.8px">3000</span><span
style="font-size:12.8px">μs-4000</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">μs
                                                          one one of the
                                                          guests when 3
                                                          guests are
                                                          running.</span></div>
                                                          <div
                                                          class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                                          <div
                                                          class="gmail_quote">
                                                          <div>
                                                          <div>On Wed,
                                                          Oct 28, 2015
                                                          at 4:52 AM,
                                                          Sergey Vlasov
                                                          <span
                                                          dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sergey@vlasov.me" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sergey@vlasov.me">sergey@vlasov.me</a></a>></span>
                                                          wrote:<br>
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                                                          <div
                                                          class="gmail_quote"><span>On


                                                          27 October
                                                          2015 at 18:38,
                                                          LordZiru <span
                                                          dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lordziru@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lordziru@gmail.com">lordziru@gmail.com</a></a>></span>
                                                          wrote:<br>
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                                                          <div>I have
                                                          brutal DPC
                                                          Latency on
                                                          qemu, no
                                                          matter if
                                                          using
                                                          pci-assign or
                                                          vfio-pci or
                                                          without any
                                                          passthrought,
                                                          <br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <br>
                                                          my DPC Latency
                                                          is like:<br>
                                                          <div>10000,500,8000,6000,800,300,12000,9000,700,2000,9000<br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div>and on
                                                          native windows
                                                          7 is like: <br>
20,30,20,50,20,30,20,20,30<br>
                                                          </div>
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                                                          <div> </div>
                                                          </span>In<span>
                                                          Windows 10
                                                          guest I
                                                          constantly
                                                          have red bars
                                                          around 3000</span><span><span>μ</span>s
                                                          (microseconds),


                                                          spiking
                                                          sometimes up
                                                          to 10000</span><span><span>μ</span>s</span>.<span><br>
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                                                          <div><br>
                                                          I don't know
                                                          how to fix it.<br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div>this
                                                          matter for me
                                                          because i are
                                                          using USB
                                                          Sound Card for
                                                          my VMs, <br>
                                                          and i get
                                                          sound
                                                          drop-outs
                                                          every 0-4
                                                          secounds<br>
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                                                          <div><br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </span>
                                                          <div>That bugs
                                                          me a lot too.
                                                          I also use an
                                                          external USB
                                                          card and my
                                                          DAW
                                                          periodically
                                                          drops out :(<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          I haven't
                                                          tried CPU
                                                          pinning yet
                                                          though. And
                                                          perhaps I
                                                          should try
                                                          Windows 7.<br>
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