| April 6 |
Introduction; What is an Operating System?
Read What is an Operating System? and Operating System Evaluation
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| April 8 |
Files and Directories
Read File System Introduction
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| April 10 |
File System Implementation
Read File System Implementation
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| April 13 |
The Process Model
Read OSTEP Chapter 4 (p. 27–36)
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| April 15 |
The Kernel Abstraction
Read The Kernel Abstraction
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| April 17 |
Interrupts and System Calls
Read The Kernel Abstraction
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| April 20 |
Unix Process API
Read Process API
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| April 22 |
Introduction to Concurrency
Read OSTEP Chapter 26
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| April 24 |
Thread API and Implementation
Read OSTEP Chapter 27
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| April 27 |
Race Conditions and Locks
Read OSTEP Chapter 28
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| April 29 |
Condition Variables
Read OSTEP Chapter 30, section 30.2
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| May 1 |
Semaphores and Advanced Locks
Read OSTEP Chapter 31, sections 31.1-5, 31.8
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| May 6 |
Writing Concurrent Software
Read OSTEP Chapter 29
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| May 8 |
Other Approaches to Concurrency
Read OSTEP Chapter 33
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| May 11 |
Deadlock
Read OSTEP Section 31.6 and OSTEP Chapter 32.3
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| May 13 |
Uniprocessor Scheduling
Read OSTEP Chapter 8
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| May 15 |
Advanced Scheduling
No reading
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| May 18 |
Caches and Address Translation
Read OSTEP Chapter 15
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| May 20 |
WORK DAY, no topic
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| May 22 |
Segmentation and Paging
Read OSTEP Chapter 18
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| May 25 |
Paging: Smaller Tables
Read OSTEP Chapter 20
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| May 27 |
Paging: Faster Translations (TLBs)
Read OSTEP Chapter 19
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| May 29 |
Beyond Physical Memory
(optional) Read OSTEP Chapter 21 and Chapter 22
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| June 1 |
Software Protection and Virtual Machines
(optional) Xen and the Art of Virtualization
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| June 3 |
WORK DAY, no topic
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