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cpu-affinity
- Jun 22, 2026 CPU Affinity Masks and What Pinning Actually Costs How a task affinity mask restricts the scheduler, why pinning a thread can lower latency and raise queueing at the same time, and what the load balancer does when every task is pinned. memory systems
- Apr 30, 2025 Load Balancing and Thread Migration on Symmetric Multiprocessors How per-CPU run queues are kept in balance without a global lock, when a thread is worth moving, and why affinity and NUMA topology constrain the answer. operating systems