cpu_pinning_alone test compare cpu pinning alone: Processor: AMD EPYC-Milan (8 Cores), Motherboard: SeaBIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552c-rebuilt.opensuse.org, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 10GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 22.04, Kernel: 5.15.0-1067-kvm (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.3.255, Compiler: GCC 11.4.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test: Processor: AMD EPYC-Milan (8 Cores), Motherboard: SeaBIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552c-rebuilt.opensuse.org, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 10GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 22.04, Kernel: 5.15.0-1072-kvm (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.3.255, Compiler: GCC 11.4.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Sysbench 1.0.20 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better cpu pinning alone . 31597.42 |================================================= test .............. 17841.06 |============================