Receiving Completed I/O Request Notifications
At this point, you know how to queue an asynchronous device I/O request, but I haven’t discussed how the device driver notifies you after the I/O request has completed.
Windows offers four different methods (briefly described in Table 10-9) for receiving I/O completion notifications, and this chapter covers all of them. The methods are shown in order of complexity, from the easiest to understand and implement (signaling a device kernel object) to the hardest to understand and implement (I/O completion ports).
Table 10-9. Methods for Receiving I/O Completion Notifications
Technique | Summary |
|---|---|
Signaling a device kernel object | Not useful for performing multiple simultaneous I/O requests against a single device. ... |
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