vhost threads are not pinned on RHEL9 based KVM hypervisors, causing performance issues
Issue
- KVM vhost processed are not pinned to the CPUs as configured in emulatorpin.
- After upgrading to RHEL9, Virtual Machines that require pinning have intermittent performance issues.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17
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