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DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Gero Schmidt, Bertrand Dufrasne, Jana Jamsek, Peter Kimmel, Hiroaki Matsuno, Flavio Morais, Lindsay Oxenham, Antonio Rainero, Denis Senin
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
726 pages
26h 28m
English
IBM Redbooks
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12.2.4 I/O device driver
The Linux kernel takes control of devices using a device driver. The device driver is a
separate kernel module and is provided for each device (or group of devices) to make the
device available for the Linux operating system. After the device driver is loaded, it runs as a
part of the Linux kernel and takes full control of the device. We describe SCSI device drivers.
SCSI
The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is the most commonly used I/O device
technology, especially in the enterprise server environment. In Linux kernel implementations,
SCSI devices are controlled by de ...
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