[rumanator]

> This is exactly the situation for a well-balanced parallel work queue.

What if your work queues are running on a multitasking operating system that runs services? And what about a hypervisor?

[johncolanduoni]

For this technique you generally dedicate some core(s) to those miscellaneous threads and flag the rest as unscheduable unless a thread is specifically assigned to them.

If you’re not sharing cores between VMs it’s typical to do the same at the hypervisor layer.