Emulator Pinning Question

[TheGrownUpGeek]

Hi,

 

I have built a Windows 11 Gaming VM, In Unraid I have Isolated the following CPUs & Threads  

 

3/11, 4/12, 5/13, 6/14, 7/15

 

I have allocated the paired cores and thread 3-6 and 11-14 to the VM.  After reading some performance optimisation posts I am trying to pin Core 7 & thread 15 to the emulator for the passed through GPU that i have.  Below is the VM XML extract. It has correctly allocated vcpu to the physical cores & threads.

 

<vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='3'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='11'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='4'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='12'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='5'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='13'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='14'/>
    <emulatorpin cpuset='7,15'/>
  </cputune>

 

After adding the emulator pin line when the VM is running i see some activity on core 7 but no activity on thread 15.  Is that correct or is my emulator pin command wrong?  A second question is emulator pinning worth while to increase the performance of the VM by making sure emulation instructions and commands for passed through hardware operate on physical cores isolated from the VM and Unraid?  Is there anything else i can do to increase gaming performance for a windows 11 gaming VM?

 

Thanks in advance.

[arturovf]

interested as well in the answer