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Re:What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? by JdeBP on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:58AM (#18192403)
Windows NT thread scheduling does not work that way. If the Zero Page Thread is ready to run, the processor's Idle Thread is not scheduled. Idle Threads do not live on ready queues, and are only dispatched when there is no thread available from the processor's ready queue.

Also, do not conflate the user-thread idle priority class with the (non-)priorities of Idle Threads.

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