How does the ThreadPool decide which type of thread to use for a work item

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There are two types of threads that the ThreadPool utilizes - worker and I/O threads.

According to this answer from Stephen Cleary:

... "the" thread pool is actually two thread pools: there's worker threads (that execute queued work) and there's I/O threads (that enlist in the I/O completion port and handle low-level I/O completion).

From what I was able to read in the source/debug BCL with DnSpy there is actually just one queue. (correct me if I am wrong).

So my questions how does the call to

 ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(callback)

internally decide which type of thread to use for the WaitCallback delegate?

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