Exam 10: Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling

A disadvantage of static assignment is that one processor can be idle, with an empty queue, while another processor has a backlog.

Processes at _________ priority levels are guaranteed to be selected to run before any time-sharing process but must defer to real-time processes.

In the real-time-priority class, all threads have a fixed priority that never changes and all of the active threads at a given priority level are in a round-robin queue.

In a __________ architecture, the kernel can execute on any processor, and each processor does self-scheduling from the pool of available processes.

An operating system is __________ to the extent that it performs operations at fixed, predetermined times or within predetermined time intervals.