Switch context


Context switching, task switching - a process for preserving and restoring a processor's state (context) so that multiple processes can share the resources of a single processor. Context switching involves assigning tasks to the processor and is an important feature of multi-tasking operating systems. As a rule, context switching is a highly computationally intensive task, and many of the time when designing operating systems is devoted to optimizing this task.

The dispatcher is responsible for switching the context.

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