Practice - Addressing Scheme
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Practice Questions
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Define polling in one sentence.
💡 Hint: Think about how a parent checks if a child is ready to play.
What is memory-mapped I/O?
💡 Hint: Consider how a shared space could work.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the main disadvantage of polling?
💡 Hint: Think about how it affects CPU performance.
True or False: In memory-mapped I/O, I/O device addresses do not overlap with memory addresses.
💡 Hint: Remember what memory-mapped means!
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Challenge Problems
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Propose an optimization strategy to reduce CPU time wastage during polling operations in a low-priority system.
💡 Hint: Consider the advantages of being notified versus checking repeatedly.
Compare and contrast the efficiency of memory-mapped and isolated I/O in a scenario with multiple I/O devices.
💡 Hint: Think about the complexity of managing addresses in both schemes.
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