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Comment by computerliker

5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)

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Havoc  5 months ago

Right so how does the scheduler know what’s low priority?

  • ahoka  5 months ago

    I thought this was actually a good question, so I have trued to look it up. If I understand correctly the CPU tells the scheduler! I could not find exactly how though, maybe an MSR?

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