COMP 530 -- Introduction to Operating Systems Fall 2011 MWF 11:00-12:15, Brooks 007 Instructor: Kevin Jeffay Office hours by appointment FB316, jeffay at cs.unc.edu TA: Chih-Hao Sun Office hours: 2:30-4:30 TuTh SN153, chsun at cs.unc.edu

Copies of Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 -- UNIX Warmup (Wed 8/24) Due 9/7
• Homework 2 -- Building a Simple UNIX Shell (Wed 9/7) Due 9/21
  
• Homework 3 -- Written Problems on Processes & Scheduling (Mon 9/26) Due 10/5
• Homework 4 -- Implementing Producer/Consumer Systems With Threads (10/5) Due 10/17
• Homework 5 -- Implementing Producer/Consumer Systems With Pipes (10/26) Due 11/8
• Homework 6 -- Some written problems on process synchronization & memory management (11/9) Due 11PM on 11/23

Class Schedule & Lecture Notes

• Aug. 24 -- Administrivia
• Aug. 29 -- History of OSs & Basic OS Concepts
  Reading:
  • Chapter 1 -- Introduction
  • Chapter 2 -- Operating Systems Structures
• Aug. 31 -- Processes
  Reading:
  • Chapter 3 -- Processes
  • Chapter 4 -- Threads
• Sep. 7 -- Process Implementations & Processor Scheduling
  Reading:
  • Chapter 4 -- Threads
  • Chapter 5 -- CPU Scheduling
• Sep. 14 -- Scheduling Policies
  Reading:
  • Chapter 19 -- Real-Time Systems
  • Chapter 21 -- The Linux System (section 21.5 on Scheduling)
• Sep. 19 -- Process Coordination
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Sep. 21 -- Semaphores (An animated version of the slides is available here.)
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Sep. 28 -- Higher-Level Synchronization Primitives
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Oct. 8 -- Message Passing
  Reading:
  • Chapter 21 -- The Linux System (section 21.9 on Inter-Process Communication)
• Oct. 17 -- Memory Management
  Reading:
  • Chapter 8 -- Main Memory
• Oct. 24 -- Virtual Memory
  Reading:
  • Chapter 9 -- Virtual Memory
• Oct. 31 -- Page Replacement Algorithms
  Reading:
  • Chapter 9 -- Virtual Memory
• Nov. 9 -- Load Control
  Reading:
  • Chapter 9 -- Virtual Memory
• Nov. 14 -- Segmentation & Shared Memory
  Reading:
  • Chapter 8.6 -- Segmentation
  • Appendix B -- Mach
• Nov. 16 -- Secondary Storage Management
  Reading:
  • Chapter 10 -- File-System Interface
  • Chapter 11 -- File-System Implementation
  • Chapter 12 -- Mass-Storage Structure
• Nov. 21 -- Secondary Storage Performance
  Reading:
  • Chapter 10 -- File-System Interface
  • Chapter 11 -- File-System Implementation
  • Chapter 12 -- Mass-Storage Structure

On-Line References

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What you have to look forward to when you graduate...

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