Summary
Explore how operating systems implement process virtualization by managing process states, CPU registers, and process APIs. Understand the mechanisms and policies behind CPU scheduling and how processes transition between running, ready, and blocked states to provide a comprehensive view of OS process management.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
We have introduced the most basic abstraction of the OS: the process. It is quite simply viewed as a running program. With this conceptual view in mind, we will now move on to the nitty-gritty: the low-level mechanisms needed to implement processes, and the higher-level policies required to schedule them in an intelligent way. By combining ...