The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

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Last month, we saw that the threads library implements a relatively simple queue of runnable threads, in which threads at the same user-thread priority are maintained on a linked list. Each list of ...