Jump to content

System Contention Scope

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Achaemenes (usurped) (talk | contribs) at 09:17, 15 February 2006. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Ultimately a user-level thread is mapped to a kernel-level one via a scheme called process contention scope (PCS). The name is derived from the fact that the processes and threads are contending for a kernel process.

The Operating System decides which kernel-thread to run based on a scheme called system contention scope (SCS) since the threads are contending for the system/processor.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=System_Contention_Scope&oldid=39714562"