The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

I work in robotics research and am building a multi-threaded controller application, running on OSX, which collects data from multiple sources (i.e., a computer vision system, a wireless sensor board ...

Some sources claim that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs could perform better in Windows 10 except for the way the operating system incorrectly handles Ryzen’s simultaneous multi-threading (SMT). We’re told that ...

Back in early November 2001, I started following a discussionbetween two factions of the Linux kernel community. The gist of thediscussion was over what was the best solution to the Linux ...

At the beginning of the year HEXUS reported upon the release of the utility called CorePrio. As a brief reminder, CorePrio is a collaboration between LevelOneTechs and BitSum, which allows users to ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...