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From: "Ashwin Chandra" <ashcs@ucla.edu>
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I wanted to get some clarification about the 4BSD scheduler. I am sort =
of confused why there are two forms of scheduling, one done between =
processes and another done between threads in a process. The priority =
calculations seem to be done only with processes and I assume that the =
global run queue holds processes, not threads.  Also why is there only 1 =
run queue for 1 CPU. What happens to blocked processes and ready to be =
runned processes?

Ash