INDIRECTION-BASED PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for process management. The method includes assigning a drawer and a physical processor to each element of a first ready queue pointer array, wherein each element of the first ready queue pointer array is configured to point to a memory address of a ready queue header. The method further includes assigning the drawer and the physical processor to each element of a second ready queue pointer array, wherein each element of the second ready queue pointer array is configured to point to the same ready queue header as a respective element of the first ready queue pointer array. The method further includes detecting that either a physical processor has become unavailable to process executable instructions or that a ready queue is empty. The method further includes allocating an available physical processor and a ready queue with executable instructions.