Logical Processors

The hypervisor maintains a list of logical processors. Conceptually, a logical processor is a thread implemented in hardware.

At hypervisor boot time, one virtual processor is created within the root partition for each present and potential logical processor. Unlike typical virtual processors that are associated with other partitions, the root partition's virtual processors have hard affinities; that is, the root partition's virtual processors are bound to a specific logical processor. Partitions that possess the CPUManagement privilege also have hard affinities. For more information about CPUManagement, see the HV_PARTITION_PRIVILEGE_MASK union reference page.

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