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CPU Scheduling & Context Switching Questions

How the operating system decides which runnable task gets the CPU and switches between them: preemptive vs. cooperative scheduling, algorithms such as round-robin, priority, and multilevel feedback queues, time slices, and the mechanics and cost of a context switch. Covers scheduling goals like throughput, latency, fairness, and starvation avoidance.

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