Timeline for How does Linux implement multitasking on CPUs which do not support multitasking?
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| Mar 4, 2024 at 16:40 | vote | accept | zomega | ||
| Mar 4, 2024 at 14:46 | comment | added | aviro | See: Context switch, Understanding Context Switching and Its Impact on System Performance, Linux CPU Context Switch Deep Dive, Process Switch | |
| Mar 4, 2024 at 14:45 | comment | added | paladin | Yes, usually the scheduling task uses hardware interrupts to interrupt running processes. There are also other kinds of schedulers, which allow processes to run in realtime until those processes finish or give control back to the OS. This Wikipedia article explains it nice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking | |
| Mar 4, 2024 at 14:40 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 4, 2024 at 14:33 | history | asked | zomega | CC BY-SA 4.0 |