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What are the advantages and disadvantages of user level threads and kernel level threads?
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- USER LEVEL THREADS
Aadvantages:
· User-level threads can be implemented on operating system that does not support threads.
· Implementing user-level threads does not require modification of operating system where everything is managed by the thread library
· Simple representation which the thread is represented by a the thread ID, program counter, register, stack , all stored in user process address space
· Simple management where creating new threads, switching threads and synchronization between threads can be done without intervention of the kernel
· Fast and efficient where switching thread is much more inexpensive compared to a system call
- Disadvantages:
· There is a lack of coordination between threads and operating system kernel. A process gets one time slice no matter it has 1 thread or 10000 threads within it. It is up to the thread itself to give up the control to other threads
· If one thread made a blocking system call, the entire process can be blocked in the kernel, even if other threads in the same process are in the ready state
KERNEL LEVEL THREAD:
- Advantages:
· Because kernel has the full knowledge of all the threads, scheduler may decide to allocate more time to a process having large number of threads than process having small number of thread, where the kernel threads come useful for intense application
- Disadvantages:
· Kernel level threads are slow and inefficient, since kernel must manage and schedule all the threads as well as the processes. It requires a full TCB for each thread to maintain information about threads, which results in increasing of overheads and kernel complexity
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Describe the action taken by a kernel to context switch between kernel level threads?
Context switching between kernel threads typically requires saving the value of the CPU registers from the thread being switched out and restoring the CPU registers of the new thread being scheduled.
What are kernel level threads?
KERNEL In computing, the kernel is the central component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel's responsibilities include managing the system's resources (the communication between hardware and software components).
What are user level threads?
•No special support needed from the kernel (use any Unix) •Thread creation and context switch are fast (no syscall) •Defines its own thread model and scheduling policies
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Are posix threads user level or kernel level?
POSIX threads are user level threads, because had a interface library and the operating systems don't control his ejecution and does not know
What takes longer a context switch with user level threads or one with kernel level threads?
Kernel level threads take a longer time to context switch since OS will have to save and reload each and every TCB (Thread Control block) where as in user level no kernel intervention threads simply context switch more efficiently. But there are disadvantages such as since OS sees the user leve threads as a whole process it will not give a large portion of CPU time for execution if a thread is blocked the whole process goes to the waiting state please correct my answer if im wrong godlovesu49@hotmail.com thanks regards yo
What is the difference between Kernel and User level thread?
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Describe the action taken by a kernel to context switch between kernel level threads?
Context switching between kernel threads typically requires saving the value of the CPU registers from the thread being switched out and restoring the CPU registers of the new thread being scheduled.
What are the circumstances of user level thread better than kernel level thread?
There are two distinct models of thread controls, and they are user-level threads and kernel-level threads. The thread function library to implement user-level threads usually runs on top of the system in user mode. Thus, these threads within a process are invisible to the operating system. User-level threads have extremely low overhead, and can achieve high performance in computation. However, using the blocking system calls like read(), the entire process would block. Also, the scheduling control by the thread runtime system may cause some threads to gain exclusive access to the CPU and prevent other threads from obtaining the CPU. Finally, access to multiple processors is not guaranteed since the operating system is not aware of existence of these types of threads. On the other hand, kernel-level threads will guarantee multiple processor access but the computing performance is lower than user-level threads due to load on the system. The synchronization and sharing resources among threads are still less expensive than multiple-process model, but more expensive than user-level threads. Thus, user-level thread is better than kernel level thread.
What are kernel level threads?
KERNEL In computing, the kernel is the central component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel's responsibilities include managing the system's resources (the communication between hardware and software components).
Is there one stack per process when user level threads are used?
In both kernel and User level they have one stack per thread
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1- State of current process is Saved. 2-Restore State of incoming process.
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