John Richard Moser wrote:
Can context switches be made faster? This is a simple question, mainly
because I don't really understand what happens during a context switch
that the kernel has control over (besides storing registers).
Besides saving the registers, the expensive operation in a context
switch involves flushing caches and switching page tables. This can be
avoided if the new and old processes both share the same address space.
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