Is mode switch occur switching from user thread to kernel thread?
问题 I'm confused of user/kernel thread and mode/context switch (Platform: Linux) I have two linked questions. (1) Is the below sentence right? If I make a system call, then mode switch (user mode to kernel mode) will occur and eventually switching from user thread to kernel thread happens. Since system call can only be executed in kernel thread, I think mode switch must occur the switching from the user thread to kernel thread. (2) Then, what we call the overhead of mode switching is that