METHOD FOR SCHEDULING THREAD EXECUTION ON A LIMITED NUMBER OF OPERATING SYSTEM THREADS

摘要

A system for scheduling thread execution on a limited number of operating system threads inside a kernel device driver and allowing execution of context threads by kernel mode threads includes a kernel device driver that itself includes at least one kernel thread. A data structure stored in a memory element is associated with a context thread to be executed by the system. A flow scheduler stores context thread state in the associated data structure and schedules the execution of one or more context threads.