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Dispatch latency is

(a) Time taken to swap a process.

(b) The time taken to the submission and completion of the process.

(c) The time taken to stop a process and start another process.

(d) Time taken to switch from one thread to another.

Comments

C .

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when Short Term Scheduler schedule a process, Actually what happens is, STS tell to Dispatcher to make Context Switching. The time which taken by the Dispatcher to perform context switching is called Dispatch latency.

Answer 1

Dispatch Latency is the time taken to dispatch a process to the processor i.e. the time taken to stop the ongoing process and start the next process. So option C is correct.