Operating Systems20795 marksImplementing Mutual Exclusion
List any two demerits of disabling interrupt to achieve mutual exclusion. Describe about fixed and variable partitioning.
List any two demerits of disabling interrupt to achieve mutual exclusion. Describe about fixed and variable partitioning. [5]
According to the notes, the following are two demerits of disabling interrupts to achieve mutual exclusion: 1. Unsafe to give power to user processes: It is unwise to give user processes the power to turn off interrupts. If a user process disables interrupts and never re-enables them, the entire ...