Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 10 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 10 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Presence of many CPUs in a multiprocessor computer system holds the promise of high throughput and fast response to applications. This chapter discusses different kinds of multiprocessor systems, and describes how the OS achieves high throughput and fast response by using special techniques of structuring its kernel, so that many CPUs can execute kernel code in parallel, and of synchronizing and scheduling processes.