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 ...

So I was checking out XP at a friend's house. After a while, I don' know why, I launched Seti, and changed its priority to real-time in the (very nice, I wish we had something similar) task ...

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 ...