Dates

Topics/Assignments

Reading from SGG

Notes

1

Jan 15

Jan 17

Course Administration

Introduction

P0 Discussion

Skim 1.1 - 1.9

Course Policies

L01:  Introduction              pdf

P0 Discussion                    pdf

2

Jan 22

Jan 24

OS Overview

Processes

P0 Due Jan 27

Skim 2.1 - 2.8

3.1 - 3.3

L02:  OS Responsibilities   pdf

L03:  Processes                 pdf

3

Jan 29

Jan 31

Threads & Scheduling

P1 Discussion and Concurrency

4.1 - 4.4

6.1 - 6.2, 6.9

L04:  Threads & Sched     pdf

L05:  Threads & Sched     pdf

Q1

4

Feb 5

Feb 7

Locks & Examples

Infinite Buffer Problem

6.3 - 6.5

6.6 - 6.7

L06:  Locks & Examples   pdf

L07:  Infinite Buffer            pdf

Q2

5

Feb 12

Feb 14

Higher-level Synchronization Constructs

Deadlock

P1 Due Feb 18

6.8

7.1 - 7.7

L08:  Higher-level Synch    pdf

L09: Deadlock                   pdf

Q3

6

Feb 19

Feb 21

Dining Philosophers & P2 Overview

P2: Processes and Memory

L10: Proc & Memory         pdf

Q4

7

Feb 26

Feb 28

Memory Management

Midterm Test

L11: MM Basics                pdf

Mar 3 - 7

SPRING BREAK

8

Mar 11

Mar 13

Virtual Memory Basics

P2 Due Mar 12

Page Management Policies

9.1

9.2 - 9.3

L12:  VM Basics                pdf

L13:  Paging Policies          pdf

Q5

9

Mar 18

Mar 20

Working Set Issues

P3 Design Milestone Due Mar 19

Disk Systems

9.4

L14:  Working Sets            pdf

L15:  Disks                        pdf

Q6

10

Mar 25

Mar 28

File Systems

File Systems

L16:  File Systems              pdf

continuation of previous notes

Q7

11

Apr 1

Apr 3

File Systems

P3 Due April 2

Fault Tolerance I

here

here

Q8

12

Apr 8

Apr 10

continuation

general discussion

continuation of previous notes

Q9

13

Apr 15

Apr 17

Readers & Writers

Fault Tolerance II

here

here

Q10-11

14

Apr 22

Apr 24

general discussion

general discussion

P4 Due April 27

Q12-13

Q14-15

15

Apr 29

The Boot Process

here

May 3

Final Exam: 10:05 – 12:05