| 摘要 |
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for switching user mode thread context. A user mode portion of a thread can be switched without entering a kernel by using execution context directly based on registers. Upon receiving a request to switch a user mode part of a thread to a new thread, user mode register contexts are switched, as well as a user mode thread block by changing an appropriate register to point at the user mode thread block of the new thread. Switching is available in environments using segment registers with offsets. Each user mode thread block in a process has a descriptor in a local descriptor table. When switching a user mode thread context to a new thread, a descriptor is located for a user mode thread block of the new thread. A shadow register is updated with a descriptor base address of the new thread.
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