Process

Levels of processor scheduling, scheduling queue models and criteria, scheduling algorithms, and real-time scheduling.

Notes on process scheduling triggers, evaluation metrics, and common algorithms such as FCFS, SJF, RR, MLFQ, EDF, and LLF.

Types of IPC: shared memory, pipes, message-passing systems, mailboxes, and client-server mechanisms like sockets and RPC.

Notes on concurrency, parallelism, CPU cores, hardware threads, processes, and threads in operating systems.

Process synchronization in operating systems, covering critical sections, semaphores, hardware synchronization, and classic synchronization problems.

An introduction to processes and threads