Chapter 7. Thread Scheduling, Priorities, and Affinities
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A preemptive operating system must use some algorithm to determine which threads should be scheduled when and for how long. In this chapter, we’ll look at the algorithms that Microsoft Windows Vista uses.
In Chapter 6, we discussed how every thread has a context structure, which is maintained inside the thread’s kernel object. This context structure reflects the state of the thread’s CPU registers when the thread was last executing. Every 20 milliseconds ...
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