Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of io_operations


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Nov 3, 2016, 3:01:56 PM (7 years ago)
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alain
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    v18 v19  
    4040'''External peripherals''' are shared resources, located in the I/O cluster. To minimize contention, the corresponding device descriptors are distributed on all clusters, as uniformly as possible. Therefore, an I/O operation involve generally three clusters: the client cluster, the I/O cluster, and the server cluster, containing the device descriptor.
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    42 The ''devices_dir_t'' structure contains  extended pointers on all generic devices defined by ALMOS_MK. There is one entry per channel for the external devices. There is one single entry per internal device, but the CXY value is not significant.
     42The ''devices_directory_t'' structure contains  extended pointers on all generic devices defined by ALMOS_MK. There is one entry per channel for the external devices. There is one single entry per internal device, but the CXY value is not significant.
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    4444This device directory being implemented as a global variable, is replicated in all clusters, and is initialized in the kernel initialization phase.