1. What are the advantages of implementing threads in user space? What are the disadvantages of it?
2. Suppose a multiprocessor system has p homogeneous (equal capability) processors. The OS supports many-to-many multi-threading by providing up to p kernel threads for an application. Suppose a multi-thread application with u long-running threads is running on the system. Assuming that is the only process on the system, discuss whether 100% processor utilization (ignoring the context switch overhead, which is is always guaranteed during execution of the application if it is known that u > p.

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