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Multi-Threading - Operating System

We will learn about Multithreading in an operating system, the advantage of thread, types of thread, multi-threading models in this tutorial. Want to know about multi-threading? You will get detailed information about it here. Let’s have a look at it.

Multi-Threading - Operating System

What is Tread?
First of all, it’s necessary to understand what thread is. A thread is a flow of execution by process code with its own system registers, stack, and program counters. It is also known as a lightweight process. In addition, it offers a way to improve application performance through parallelism. Each thread has exactly one process and no thread can exist outside a process.

Advantages of the thread:
- Well-organized communication.
- Thread minimizes context switching time.
- It is more efficient to create and context switch threads.
After knowing the advantages of threads, you must know about types of threads.

Types of the thread:
There are two types of thread and they are applied in two ways given below:
1. User-level threads
2. Kernel level threads

User-level threads are user-operated threads and kernel-level threads are managed by the operating system.
Now, let’s know about the multi-threading models.

Multithreading Models:
Multithreading Models

Well, some of the operating systems offer a mutual user-level thread and kernel-level thread capability. There are three types of multi-threading models.
1. Many to Many Relationship
2. Many to One model Relationship
3. One to One Relationship

In many to many relationship models, many user-level threads multiply to the kernel level threads to smaller or same numbers.
In many to one relationship model, many user-level threads to one kernel-level thread.
In one to one relationship model, there is one to one relationship of user-level thread and kernel-level thread.
User-level threads are faster to create and administer while kernel-level threads are slower to create and manage. User-level thread in general and it can be run on any operating system. Kernel level thread is specific to the operating system.
Do you get it? It’s very easy to understand multi-threading of the operating system. In case of doubts take our help and leave a comment below to drop a question. Ask us and get your answers.
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