Tentative Schedule
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No.

Day

Date

Topics

Reading List: 10th ed
1
 Mon 1/8

Overview of operating systems

Ch-1
2
 Wed 1/10

Operating-system structures

Ch-2

  Mon 1/15

Martin Luther King Day (University Closed)

  
3 Wed 1/17

Processes: creation, termination, scheduling; IPC: shared meemory, message passing; client-server communications

Ch-3
4 Mon 1/22

Proj1+, Thread models; Threads: POSIX (pthread)

Ch-4
5 Wed 1/24

Implicit threading; multithreaded programming

 
6 Mon 1/29

CPU-I/O bursts, CPU scheduling: criteria

Ch-5
7 Wed 1/31

CPU scheduling algorithms, Thread scheduling; multi-processor scheduling

 
8 Mon 2/5

-Proj1, Proj2+, Real-time CPU scheduling; Linux CFS

 
9 Wed 2/7

 Critical section problems; solutions: mutex locks, semaphores

Ch-6
10 Mon 2/12

Critical section problems; solutions

 
11 Wed 2/14

 Mutex locks, semaphores, monitors

 
12 Mon 2/19

Classical synchronization problems: producer-consumer, readers-writers, dining philosophers

Ch-7
13 Wed 2/21

-Proj2, Synchronization examples

  
  Mon 2/26

Spring Break

  
  Wed 2/28

Spring Break

  
Mon 3/4

Mid-term exam

  
14 Wed 3/6

Proj3+, Deadlock characteristics; prevention and avoidance

Ch-8
15 Mon 3/11

Deadlock detection and recovery

16 Wed 3/13

Memory address: logical and physical; memory allocation: contiguous, fragmentation, sementation, paging, Shared pages, page table structure

Ch-9
17 Mon 3/18

Shared libraries, demand paging, copy-on-write, page replacement agorithms

Ch-10

18 Wed 3/20

-Proj3, Allocation algorithms, local vs global replacements; thrashing; memory-mapped: I/O and files

 
19 Mon 3/25

Proj4+, Mass-storage structures,disk scheduling algorithms

Ch-11

20 Wed 3/27

Disk management, RAID

 
21 Mon 4/1

I/O subsystems: polling, interrupt, DMA;

Ch-12
22 Wed 4/3

Nonblocking and asynchronous I/O, kernel I/O subsystem, STREAMS

 
23 Mon 4/8

File attributes, operations; file interfaces

Ch-13
24 Wed 4/10

-Proj4, Dir and disk structure; file sharing, protection

 
25 Mon 4/15

File system: structure, implementation; dir implementation

Ch-14

26 Wed 4/17

Allocation methods, free space mangement, recovery, NFS, WAFL

 

Wed 4/24

Final exam (9:45am – 11:45am)

 

Projx+ : The specification for Project x will be made available

-Projx : The completed Project x must be submitted before 11:50pm