Worried About Concurrency?
This lesson speculates how the OS handles multiple interrupts concurrently.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Some of you, as attentive and thoughtful readers, maybe now thinking: “Hmm… what happens when, during a system call, a timer interrupt occurs?” or “What happens when you’re handling one interrupt and another one happens? Doesn’t that get hard to handle in the kernel?” Good questions — we really have some hope for ...