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I/O Systems Review Questions and Answers

This document contains review questions about input/output systems from different sections of a chapter. The questions cover topics such as conflicting trends in I/O devices, what controllers are, interrupt handling, device drivers, kernel I/O subsystems, the lifecycle of I/O requests, and STREAMS mechanisms. The document serves to test understanding of key concepts about I/O systems from across the chapter.

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I/O Systems Review Questions and Answers

This document contains review questions about input/output systems from different sections of a chapter. The questions cover topics such as conflicting trends in I/O devices, what controllers are, interrupt handling, device drivers, kernel I/O subsystems, the lifecycle of I/O requests, and STREAMS mechanisms. The document serves to test understanding of key concepts about I/O systems from across the chapter.

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CHAPTER

I/O Systems
Revaiew Questions
Section 12.1
12.1 What are the two conflicting trends of I/O devices?

Section 12.2
12.2 What is a controller?
12.3 True or False? Most CPUs allow some interrupts to be ignored so that a
critical instruction cannot be interrupted.

Section 12.3
12.4 True or False? A given device may require different drivers for different
operating systems.
12.5 What is an alternative to a nonblocking system call?

Section 12.4
12.6 List at least three different services provided by the kernel I/O subsys-
tem.

Section 12.5
12.7 True or False? The lifecycle of an I/O request does not require many
CPU cycles.

Section 12.6
12.8 What operating system is the STREAMS mechanism designed for?

Section 12.7
12.9 True or False? I/O operations do not have a significant impact on
performance.
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