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Context Switching (CS) is a valuable service provided by the underlying Operating System. It prevents greedy processes from CPU hogging, time-shares CPU between multiple threads/tasks/processes to create an illusion of continuous progress. However, the suspension of the first process and scheduling of the second one requires the kernel to store the state of the first […]