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    Chapter 13. I-O Systems

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    I/O Hardware

    1. Polling
    2. Interrupts
    3. Direct Memory Access
    4. I/O Hardware Summary

    Application I/O interface

    1. Block and character devices
    2. Network devices
    3. Clocks and timers
    4. Blocking and non-blocking I/O

    Kernel I/O subsystem

    1. I/O scheduling
    2. Buffering
    3. Caching
    4. Spooling and device reservation
    5. Error handling
    6. I/O protection
    7. Kernel data structures
    8. Kernel I/O subsystem summary

    Transforming I/O requests to Hardware Operations

    Streams

    Performance

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