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Chapter 13: I/O Systems
Overview
I/O Hardware
Application I/O Interface
Kernel I/O Subsystem
Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations
STREAMS
Performance
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Tujuan
Mempelajari struktur sub sistem I/O
Mendiskusikan prinsip-prinsip hardware I/O dan kompleksitasnya
Menyediakan aspek performa dengan rinci terhadap software dan hardware I/O
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Overview
Manajemen I/O merupakan komponen utama dari desain dan operasi pada sistem operasi
Aspek penting pada operasi komputer
Perangkat I/O bervariasi
Metode yang beragam untuk mengendalikannya
Manajemen performa
Jenis terbaru dari perangkat yang berganti-ganti
Device drivers menyajikan interface akses perangkat yang sama ke subsistem I/O
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I/O Hardware
Komputer menjalankan berbagai macam perangkat I/O:
Storage devices (disk, tapes)
Transmission devices (koneksi jaringan, bluetooth, wireless)
Human-interface devices (monitor, keyboard, mouse, audio in and out)
Konsep umum – Perangkat I/O mengirim sinyal (baik kabel atau nirkabel) dengan komputer
Port – Titik koneksi perangkat
Bus - daisy chain or akses koneksi bersama
PCI bus umumnya di PC dan servers, PCI Express (PCIe)
expansion bus menghubungkan perangkat yang relatif lambat (keyboard, port USB)
Controller (host adapter) – kumpulan komponen elektronik yang menjalankan port, bus, dan perangkat
Papan sirkuit kadang terintegrasi, kadang terpisah (host adapter)
Berisi prosesor, microcode, memory, kontroler bus, dll
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A Typical PC Bus Structure
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I/O Hardware (Cont.)
Instruksi I/O mengendalikan perangkat
Perangkat biasanya memiliki register dimana driver perangkatnya menempatkan perintah, alamat, menulis dan
membaca data dari register seteah eksekusi perintah
Data-in register, data-out register, status register, control register
Data register ukurannya 1-4 bytes, beberapa controller memiliki FIFO buffer
Perangkat memiliki alamat, digunakan oleh
Direct I/O instructions
Memory-mapped I/O
Register dari kontrol perangkat dipetakan ke alamat prosesor
Khususnya untuk alamat yang besar (grafis)
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Device I/O Port Locations on PCs (partial)
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Polling
Pada contoh berikut, Host memberikan perintah kepada perangkat I/O melalui sebuah port
1. Membaca busy bit dari status register sampai 0
2. Host mengaktifkan write bit di command register dan menulis sebuah byte ke data-out register
3. Host mengaktifkan command-ready bit
4. Controller mengaktifkan busy bit, eksekusi transfer
5. Controller membaca command register dan melihat perintah write
6. Controller menghapus busy bit, error bit, dan command-ready bit ketika transfer selesai
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Interrupts
Polling dapat terjadi dalam 3 siklus instruksi
Membaca status register perangkat, logikal dan ekstrak status bit, dan branch jika tidak 0
Bagaimana menjadi lebih efisien jarang melakukan non-zero?
CPU Interrupt-request line yang dipicu oleh perangkat I/O
Diperiksa oleh prosesor setelah melakukan instruksi
Interrupt handler menerima interupsi
Maskable untuk mengabaikan atau menunda beberapa interupsi
Interrupt vector untuk pengiriman interupsi ke penanganan yang benar
Context switch pada awal dan akhir
Berbasiskan prioritas
Beberapa bersifat nonmaskable
Menggunakan interrupt chaining jika lebih dari satu perangkat pada jumlah interupsi yang sama
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Interrupt-Driven I/O Cycle
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Intel Pentium Processor Event-Vector Table
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Interrupts (Cont.)
Interrupt mechanism also used for exceptions
Terminate process, crash system due to hardware error
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Direct Memory Access
Used to avoid programmed I/O (one byte at a time) for large data movement
Bypasses CPU to transfer data directly between I/O device and memory
Version that is aware of virtual addresses can be even more efficient - DVMA
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Six Step Process to Perform DMA Transfer
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Application I/O Interface
I/O system calls encapsulate device behaviors in generic classes
Device-driver layer hides differences among I/O controllers from kernel
New devices talking already-implemented protocols need no extra work
Each OS has its own I/O subsystem structures and device driver frameworks
Devices vary in many dimensions
Character-stream or block
Sequential or random-access
Synchronous or asynchronous (or both)
Sharable or dedicated
Speed of operation
read-write, read only, or write only
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A Kernel I/O Structure
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Characteristics of I/O Devices
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Characteristics of I/O Devices (Cont.)
Subtleties of devices handled by device drivers
For direct manipulation of I/O device specific characteristics, usually an escape / back door
Unix ioctl() call to send arbitrary bits to a device control register and data to device data register
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Block and Character Devices
Block devices include disk drives
Commands include read, write, seek
Raw I/O, direct I/O, or file-system access
Memory-mapped file access possible
File mapped to virtual memory and clusters brought via demand paging
DMA
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Network Devices
Varying enough from block and character to have own interface
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Clocks and Timers
Provide current time, elapsed time, timer
ioctl() (on UNIX) covers odd aspects of I/O such as clocks and timers
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Nonblocking and Asynchronous I/O
Blocking - process suspended until I/O completed
Easy to use and understand
Insufficient for some needs
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Two I/O Methods
Synchronous Asynchronous
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Vectored I/O
Vectored I/O allows one system call to perform multiple I/O operations
For example, Unix readve() accepts a vector of multiple buffers to read into or write from
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Kernel I/O Subsystem
Scheduling
Some I/O request ordering via per-device queue
Some OSs try fairness
Some implement Quality Of Service (i.e. IPQOS)
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Device-status Table
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Sun Enterprise 6000 Device-Transfer Rates
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Kernel I/O Subsystem
Caching - faster device holding copy of data
Always just a copy
Key to performance
Sometimes combined with buffering
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Error Handling
OS can recover from disk read, device unavailable, transient write failures
Retry a read or write, for example
Some systems more advanced – Solaris FMA, AIX
Track error frequencies, stop using device with increasing frequency of retry-able errors
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I/O Protection
User process may accidentally or purposefully attempt to disrupt normal operation via illegal I/O
instructions
All I/O instructions defined to be privileged
I/O must be performed via system calls
Memory-mapped and I/O port memory locations must be protected too
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Use of a System Call to Perform I/O
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Kernel Data Structures
Kernel keeps state info for I/O components, including open file tables, network connections, character
device state
Many, many complex data structures to track buffers, memory allocation, “dirty” blocks
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UNIX I/O Kernel Structure
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Power Management
Not strictly domain of I/O, but much is I/O related
Computers and devices use electricity, generate heat, frequently require cooling
OSes can help manage and improve use
Cloud computing environments move virtual machines between servers
Can end up evacuating whole systems and shutting them down
Mobile computing has power management as first class OS aspect
For example, Android implements
Component-level power management
Understands relationship between components
Build device tree representing physical device topology
System bus -> I/O subsystem -> {flash, USB storage}
Device driver tracks state of device, whether in use
Unused component – turn it off
All devices in tree branch unused – turn off branch
Wake locks – like other locks but prevent sleep of device when lock is held
Power collapse – put a device into very deep sleep
Marginal power use
Only awake enough to respond to external stimuli (button press, incoming call)
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I/O Requests to Hardware Operations
Consider reading a file from disk for a process:
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Life Cycle of An I/O Request
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STREAMS
STREAM – a full-duplex communication channel between a user-level process and a device in Unix
System V and beyond
Asynchronous internally, synchronous where user process communicates with stream head
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The STREAMS Structure
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Performance
I/O a major factor in system performance:
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Intercomputer Communications
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Improving Performance
Reduce number of context switches
Use DMA
Balance CPU, memory, bus, and I/O performance for highest throughput
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Device-Functionality Progression
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End of Chapter 13
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