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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 2 Question 16 (Page No. 175)

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It is not possible to preempt the User-level threads by the clock until the entire process' quantum is used. But it is possible to preempt the Kernel-level threads individually. In this case, the clock will interrupt the current thread if a thread is running for too long.

After this, the Kernel can pick any other thread from the same process for running, if it wants to run.

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