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Interrupts
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Interrupts
- Multiple Interrupts ( when another interrupts starts during the process of another interrupts) Can be handled by: disabling interrupts priority scheme
Interrupt normal sequencing of processor to improve processor utilization
- Because most I/O devices are slow
- Processor must wait for device
TYPES
- Hardware Failure
- failure such as power failure or memory parity failure
- I/O
- Caused by I/O controller signals completion of operations and error conditions
- Timer
- caused by timer within processor
- Program
- caused by conditions that occurs as a result of an instruction execution
- Hardware Failure
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- University CIE 302 (Operating systems Background) Mind Map on Interrupts, created by Tseyi on 17/09/2014.
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