Hi Jaap
Thank you for the quick reply.
The one extra thing you could do, is explicitly make other processes *not* use those 4 cores, but I'm not sure that's easy to do.
From what I could understand about it, the isolcpus kernel argument does exactly that. It does not give the CPUs passed to it to any process which does not explicity bind itself to them.
I will implement this, and report back my findings.
Thanks Parth Mittal