Preemptive scheduling;tasks are usually assigned with priorities at times, it’s necessary to run a certain tasks that has a higher priority before another tasks that has a higher priority before another tasks although it’s running.
Non-preemptive scheduling ;once the cpu has been allocated to a process. The cpu keeps the cpu until it releases the cpu either by terminating or by switching to the waiting state.
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