how quick can the processor handle the interrupts

Question

I was studying about interrupts. So most architecture are interrupt driven, if everything is interrupt driven, how fast the processor can handle all of those. For example, while

Answer 1

In a normal linux system there is a nice value , and lower nice values have around typical 800ms quanta value and higher nice value have 5ms quanta.

Linux system uses heuristics to decide whether the process is interactive or not. You better read this note:

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/classes/s06-4118/l13.pdf

There are several data structures that regarding the scheduler, Such as linux keep track on number of interactive processes wait on IO bound , etc etc.

In windows more than preemptive multitasking , the application programs support the kernel through the GetMessage() API call[in the case of windows GUI programs].Where when you call GetMessage() , that process will schedule back when there is a message pending to be processed in it's system queue.