Re: [vfio-users] Mitigating CPU Stutter

There are a lot of things you can do to improve stuttering but what makes the most difference is probably to dedicate CPUs exclusively for the VM. Pinning by itself will only prevent the host scheduler from migrating the VM threads around. Other processes will still compete for CPU time and

[vfio-users] Mitigating CPU Stutter

Does anyone have advice on how to mitigate qemu guest CPU stutter? It usually manifests as audio crackle or dropped frames. I followed the advice in this thread and set my CPU governor to performance, which seems to help a tiny