Ultimately a user-level [[thread]] is mapped to a kernel-level one via a scheme called [[Process Contention Scope (PCS)]]. The name is derived from the fact that the processes and threads are contending for a kernel process.

The Operating System decides which kernel-thread to run based on a scheme called [[System Contention Scope (SCS)]] since the threads are contending for the system/processor.

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