Operating System《操作系统》ch13-IO Systems-38.pptVIP

Life Cycle of An I/O Request STREAMS STREAM – a full-duplex communication channel between a user-level process and a device in Unix System V and beyond A STREAM consists of: - STREAM head interfaces with the user process - driver end interfaces with the device- zero or more STREAM modules between them. Each module contains a read queue and a write queue Message passing is used to communicate between queues The STREAMS Structure Performance I/O a major factor in system performance: Demands CPU to execute device driver, kernel I/O code Context switches due to interrupts Data copying Netw