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The "different kind of switch" you talk about doesn't exist on any OS of the past 30 years.
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
The "different kind of switch" you talk about doesn't exist on any OS of the past 30 years.
- gpderetta 3y agoI'm talking about raising a process privilege level, via whatever syscall mechanism. Which is a completely different code path than a process/thread context switch and, among other things, doesn't require going through the scheduler.