diff --git a/src/common/thread.cpp b/src/common/thread.cpp
index 5144c0d9fa..fe7a420ccc 100644
--- a/src/common/thread.cpp
+++ b/src/common/thread.cpp
@@ -27,18 +27,6 @@ namespace Common {
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 
-void SetThreadAffinity(std::thread::native_handle_type thread, u32 mask) {
-    SetThreadAffinityMask(thread, mask);
-}
-
-void SetCurrentThreadAffinity(u32 mask) {
-    SetThreadAffinityMask(GetCurrentThread(), mask);
-}
-
-void SwitchCurrentThread() {
-    SwitchToThread();
-}
-
 // Sets the debugger-visible name of the current thread.
 // Uses undocumented (actually, it is now documented) trick.
 // http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxtsksettingthreadname.asp
@@ -70,31 +58,6 @@ void SetCurrentThreadName(const char* name) {
 
 #else // !MSVC_VER, so must be POSIX threads
 
-void SetThreadAffinity(std::thread::native_handle_type thread, u32 mask) {
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-    thread_policy_set(pthread_mach_thread_np(thread), THREAD_AFFINITY_POLICY, (integer_t*)&mask, 1);
-#elif (defined __linux__ || defined __FreeBSD__) && !(defined ANDROID)
-    cpu_set_t cpu_set;
-    CPU_ZERO(&cpu_set);
-
-    for (int i = 0; i != sizeof(mask) * 8; ++i)
-        if ((mask >> i) & 1)
-            CPU_SET(i, &cpu_set);
-
-    pthread_setaffinity_np(thread, sizeof(cpu_set), &cpu_set);
-#endif
-}
-
-void SetCurrentThreadAffinity(u32 mask) {
-    SetThreadAffinity(pthread_self(), mask);
-}
-
-#ifndef _WIN32
-void SwitchCurrentThread() {
-    usleep(1000 * 1);
-}
-#endif
-
 // MinGW with the POSIX threading model does not support pthread_setname_np
 #if !defined(_WIN32) || defined(_MSC_VER)
 void SetCurrentThreadName(const char* name) {
diff --git a/src/common/thread.h b/src/common/thread.h
index 2cf74452d7..c5fc3533db 100644
--- a/src/common/thread.h
+++ b/src/common/thread.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <thread>
-#include "common/common_types.h"
 
 namespace Common {
 
@@ -78,9 +77,6 @@ private:
     std::size_t generation = 0; // Incremented once each time the barrier is used
 };
 
-void SetThreadAffinity(std::thread::native_handle_type thread, u32 mask);
-void SetCurrentThreadAffinity(u32 mask);
-void SwitchCurrentThread(); // On Linux, this is equal to sleep 1ms
 void SetCurrentThreadName(const char* name);
 
 } // namespace Common