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My goal is to understand the exact differences between SoEMT, SMT and "time-slice multi threading".

Thus far I already found information on SoEMT and SMT and it does not seem to hard to find more on google. However my problem is: Time-slice multithreading. The best I found - apart from a long winded book, was:

– Processor switches between software threads after a predefined time slice – Can minimize the effects of long lasting events – Still, some execution slots are wasted For Time-slice multithreading I found:

However, this doesn't really go into detail how this things are achieved, for what purpose, its pros, cons and implementations etc.

I would thus be quite happy, if someone knew a good resource, that read up further on that topic. Bonus, if it also compares SoEMT, SMT. As always thanks in advance.

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  • $\begingroup$ Fine-grained MT is a type of time-slice multithreading where the time slice is one cycle. Software MT generally combines SoEMT (I/O interrupts, blocking system calls, et al.) and coarse-grained time-slice MT (timer interrupt). $\endgroup$
    – user4577
    Sep 10, 2017 at 23:29

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Time-slice multithreading is the convectional multithreading where CPU creates an illusion of executing more than once program at a time but the CPU can execute only one of these programs at a time. The OS maintains the illusion of concurrency by rapidly switching between running programs at a fixed interval, called a time slice. Time slice multithreading works similar to RoundRobin fashion.

For detailed understanding refer

  1. Definition (Convectional multithreading)
  2. Stackoverflow answer
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