Practice - User Threads vs. Kernel Threads
Practice Questions
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What are user threads?
💡 Hint: Think about who manages the threads.
Name one advantage of kernel threads.
💡 Hint: Consider their management by the OS.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of thread is managed by the operating system kernel?
💡 Hint: Remember which thread is visible to the kernel.
True or False: User threads can offer better performance in terms of context switching than kernel threads.
💡 Hint: Consider the overhead of kernel calls.
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Challenge Problems
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Analyze a scenario where a web server uses user threads to serve multiple requests. Discuss how this design can be beneficial and what challenges it might encounter with blocking calls.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how user threads might impact server performance.
Critically evaluate the choice of threading model for a video processing application that needs to handle heavy I/O operations and parallel processing. Which threading model would you recommend and why?
💡 Hint: Consider how each model might support or hinder performance.
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