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Information processing apparatus, data inputting/outputting method, and program storage medium therefor

US6754736B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 2000
Grant dateJun 22, 2004
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Expiry dateSep 15, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/545
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

When a user process issues an input/output request in a process performed in response to the input/output request generated by the user process, the input/output request is queued in the input/output request list which is a queue in a list format on the user space side. On the kernel side, when a input/output request in the input/output request list is processed, the status is changed into ‘processed’, and a list element whose status indicates ‘processed’ is removed from the request list on the user space side. On the kernel side, a thread for performing a process in response to an input/output request is divided into a plurality of threads, and the CPU is released to another thread before completion of the process.

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