Advanced Operating Systems   COMP9242 2002/S2

UNSW

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Preemptions and Preempters Basic idea: treat a preemptions like a page fault, i.e., a time faults, have a preempter as a time-fault handler, preempter is invoked via IPC. Model is, at present, not matured, and preemtpers are not implemented in any L4 version.