| Week | Recommended Readings | Optional Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | OSTEP Introduction | Play with code from Introduction: |
| Dialogue | Code from OSTEP Intro | |
| Introduction | ||
| Week 2 | OSTEP Processes | References & Resources for Kernel Hacking in assignment 1 |
| Dialogue | ||
| Processes | Familiarize yourself with code examples from Process API reading. | |
| Process API | ||
| Week 3 | OSTEP Direct Execution & Scheduling | Very helpful for assignment 2: |
| Direct Execution | Discussion of Signal Handling | |
| CPU Scheduling | More Signal Handling | |
| Chapter 8 Optional Systems book | ||
| Week 4 | OSTEP More Scheduling | Familiarize yourself with code examples from Scheduling readings. |
| Multi-Level Feedback Scheduling | ||
| Lottery Scheduling | ||
| Week 5 | OSTEP Finish Scheduling | None |
| Multi CPU Scheduling | ||
| Summary | ||
| OSTEP Address Spaces | ||
| Dialogue | ||
| Address Spaces | ||
| Week 6 | OSTEP Address Spaces | None |
| Memory API | ||
| Address Translation | ||
| Segmentation | ||
| Week 7 | No Reading - Prepare for Midterm | None |
| Week 8 | OSTEP Address Spaces & Virtual Memory | OSTEP Page Management (Useful for Paging Strategies assignment) |
| Free Space Management | Swapping: Mechanisms | |
| Introduction to Paging | Swapping: Policies | |
| Translation Lookaside Buffers | ||
| Advanced Page Tables | ||
| Summary | ||
| Week 9 | OSTEP Concurrency | Familiarize yourself with code examples from Threads Intro readings. |
| Dialogue | ||
| Concurrency and Threads Intro | ||
| Threads API | ||
| Week 10 | OSTEP Concurrency | None |
| Locks | ||
| Locked Data Structures | ||
| Conditional Variables | ||
| Semaphores | ||
| Week 11 | OSTEP Concurrency | None |
| Concurrency Bugs | ||
| Event-based Concurrency | ||
| Summary | ||
| Week 12 | OSTEP Persistence | None |
| Dialogue | ||
| I/O Devices | ||
| Hard Disk Drives (Focus on how to prevent starvation) | ||
| Week 13 | OSTEP Persistence | None |
| RAID | ||
| Files and Directories | ||
| File System Implementation | ||
| Week 14 | OSTEP Persistence | OSTEP Distributed |
| Fast File System | Dialogue | |
| Log-structured File Systems | Distributed Systems | |
| Data Integrity and Protection | Network File System (NFS) | |
| Summary | Andrew File System (AFS) | |
| Summary | ||
| Week 15 | No Readings - Review for Final | None |