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UWA week 37 (2nd semester, week 7) ↓

1st project Defining timequantum clarification (all 6)

12:53pm Mon 11th Sep, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> In my brain time quantum is a time which the process is allowed to run before being interrupted so other processes have an opportunity to run too. With that said, my question is

Yes, that's correct.

> does TIME_CONTEXT_SWITCH and TIME_ACQUIRE_BUS require checking for overtime with respect to time quantum?

Those time values are not consumed/performed by the individual processes, but by the OS or a device. So they do not add to the processes' time on the CPU, and thus have nothing to do with the timequantum.