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I/O Systems: Bibliographical Notes

This chapter discusses computer input/output (I/O) systems. It describes how the operating system manages and controls I/O operations and devices to bridge the gap between hardware interfaces and application interfaces. The chapter covers I/O hardware basics, I/O services provided by the operating system, and how it improves I/O performance. It also discusses UNIX System V STREAMS for assembling driver code pipelines dynamically.

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I/O Systems: Bibliographical Notes

This chapter discusses computer input/output (I/O) systems. It describes how the operating system manages and controls I/O operations and devices to bridge the gap between hardware interfaces and application interfaces. The chapter covers I/O hardware basics, I/O services provided by the operating system, and how it improves I/O performance. It also discusses UNIX System V STREAMS for assembling driver code pipelines dynamically.

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CHAPTER

I/O Systems

The two main jobs of a computer are I/O and computing. In many cases, the
main job is I/O, and the computing or processing is merely incidental. For
instance, when we browse a web page or edit a file, our immediate interest
is to read or enter some information, not to compute an answer.
The role of the operating system in computer I/O is to manage and con-
trol I/O operations and I/O devices. Although related topics appear in other
chapters, here we bring together the pieces to paint a complete picture of
I/O. First, we describe the basics of I/O hardware, because the nature of the
hardware interface places constraints on the internal facilities of the operating
system. Next, we discuss the I/O services provided by the operating system
and the embodiment of these services in the application I/O interface. Then,
we explain how the operating system bridges the gap between the hardware
interface and the application interface. We also discuss the UNIX System V
STREAMS mechanism, which enables an application to assemble pipelines of
driver code dynamically. Finally, we discuss the performance aspects of I/O
and the principles of operating-system design that improve I/O performance.

Bibliographical Notes

[Vahalia (1996)] provides an overview of I/O and networking in UNIX.


[McKusick and Neville-Neil (2005)] detail the I/O structures and methods
employed in FreeBSD. The use and programming of the various interprocess-
communication and network protocols in UNIX are explored in [Stevens
(1992)]. [Hart (2005)] covers Windows programming.
[Intel (2011)] is a good source of information for Intel processors. For a
discussion of STREAMS, see [Rago (1993)]. [Hennessy and Patterson (2012)]
describe multiprocessor systems and cache-consistency issues.

Bibliography

[Hart (2005)] J. M. Hart, Windows System Programming, Third Edition, Addison-


Wesley (2005).
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[Hennessy and Patterson (2012)] J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Archi-


tecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann (2012).
[Intel (2011)] Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Com-
bined Volumes: 1, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B. Intel Corporation (2011).
[McKusick and Neville-Neil (2005)] M. K. McKusick and G. V. Neville-Neil,
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD UNIX Operating System, Addison
Wesley (2005).
[Rago (1993)] S. Rago, UNIX System V Network Programming, Addison-Wesley
(1993).
[Stevens (1992)] R. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment,
Addison-Wesley (1992).
[Vahalia (1996)] U. Vahalia, Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Prentice Hall
(1996).

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