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Design Decisions
Processor Scheduling
The windows are known for pre-emptive and scheduling system. It provides the resources to the highest priority renewable thread which is already ready for the running, and it execute the thread which has the high priority, and the thread is selected for run. The thread which has the limited resources by the processor will be allowed to run and this phenomenon is known as the processor affinity. By default, the threads can only run over the available processor, but we can alter the processor affinity with the help of one of the windows scheduling functions. We can also set the affinity mask in the image header (Futagawa, J.).
When the selected thread is running it will run for the particular amount of time which is known as the quantum. The quantum can be defined as the length of time for which the thread is allowed to run before another thread comes into the running state which has the same priority level. Once the quantum is over then another thread with the same priority level will be allowed to run. The quantum values can be different for process to process and system to system for different reasons.
The reason can be explained with configuration settings which are present in the system regarding long or short quantum, use of the job object for altering the quantum or the background or the foreground status for the current process. A thread may not complete the job due to the less quantum provided to it. The windows are implementing the pre-emptive scheduler which means that if another thread which has a higher priority is ready for the run, then the currently running thread can be pre-emptive before finishing the time slice provided to it (Futagawa, J.). The thread can also be selected for the next run, and it can be pre-empted before the starting of the quantum.
At each of the junction the windows is allowed to determine which thread is able to run next. When the windows...