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From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: pinning CPUs in bhyve
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Hi,

Can someone help me understand the cpu pinning feature in bhyve? I'm afraid the
docs have confused me:

 -p pinnedcpu
  Force guest virtual CPUs to be pinned to host CPUs.  Virtual CPU n is pinned
  to host CPU pinnedcpu+n.

What would the arg looks like? Something like -p 0,1,2,3 ?

Also, is there like to be much or any benefit from it?

Thanks,
Steve