Action taken to context switch among user level threads

Explain the actions taken by thread library to context switch among user level threads?

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The thread library function carry out the following actions to context switch among user level threads Copy all live registers to Thread control Block (TCB) Restore the state of the thread to run next which means (copy the values of live registers from (TCB) to registers) Move to the next thread to execute.

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