Concurrency
Concurrency refers to the ability to have
two or more threads of execution.
- logical concurrency
-
refers to concurrency between
multiple threads that do not execute simultaneously.
Logical concurrency exists between a driver's
base level contexts
and its interrupt context
and is the only type of concurrency
on a uniprocessor configuration.
- physical concurrency
-
refers to concurrency between
multiple threads executing simultaneously
on different processors in a multiprocessing environment.
See
``Critical code section''
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