Device Management.pptVIP

Device Management Andy Wang Operating Systems COP 4610 / CGS 5765 So far… We have covered CPU and memory management Computing is not interesting without I/Os Device management: the OS component that manages hardware devices Provides a uniform interface to access devices with different physical characteristics Optimizes the performance of individual devices Basics of I/O Devices Three categories A block device stores information in fixed-size blocks, each one with its own address e.g., disks A character device delivers or accepts a stream of characters, and individual characters are not addres