Streams server for multiplexer driver

Details Streams server for multiplexer driver Streams server for multiplexer driver

1995-06-23

2000-05-23

Oberley, Alvin E.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer data routing

Least weight routing

G06F 900, G06F 945, G06F 15163

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060675764

ABSTRACT:
A computer system is provided with an operating system that has a streams mechanism for providing streams between user-space processes and drivers. This mechanism permits a user-space process to set up a multiplexer driver for multiplexing and demultiplexing streams. To facilitate the dynamic allocation of new streams to the multiplexer driver, a stream server is associated with the multiplexer driver, the stream server keeping a pool of available streams from which it satisfies any requests for more streams made by the multiplexer driver. The stream server can request a special user-space process to supply new streams to top up the pool.

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