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Understanding a Context Switching Benchmark

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Randy Appleton Issue #57, January 1999 A look at the Linux kernel scheduler. One of the most important tasks of an operating system kernel is to manage processes and threads. A process is a program in execution, and a thread is just a CPU state stored within a process. A CPU context is either a process or a thread. Most ...

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