Operating Systems (Fall 2015)

Course Outline

Here is the course outline for COMP 3000: Operating Systems.

Lectures and Exams

Note that the topics below are primarily chapters from the class textbook, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Note that while introductory and summary dialogues are not linked below, they are worth reading for an informal take on the material.

Date	Topic
Sept. 2	Lecture 1: Introduction
Sept. 9	Lecture 2: (Video only) Processes, Process API
Sept. 11	Lecture 3: (Video only) Limited Direct Execution
Sept. 16	Lecture 4: CPU Scheduling, MLFQ
Sept. 18	Lecture 5: Lottery Scheduling, Multi-CPU scheduling
Sept. 23	Lecture 6: Address Spaces, Memory API
Sept. 25	Lecture 7: Address Translation, Segmentation
Sept. 30	Lecture 8: Free space management, Paging
Oct. 2	Lecture 9: Concurrency and Threads, Locks
Oct. 7	Lecture 10: Concurrent Data Structures, Thread API
Oct. 9	Lecture 11: Condition Variables, Semaphores, Concurrency Problems
Oct. 14	Lecture 12: Test 1 Review
Oct. 16	Test 1 (in class)
Oct. 21	Lecture 13: TLBs, Smaller Tables
Oct. 23	Lecture 14: TBA
Nov. 4	Lecture 15: Hard Disk Drives, File and Directories
Nov. 6	Lecture 16: FSCK and Journaling
Nov. 11	Lecture 17: I/O Devices
Nov. 13	Lecture 18: File System Implementation, FFS
Nov. 18	Lecture 19: Test 2 Review
Nov. 20	Test 2 (in class)
Nov. 25	Lecture 20: Distributed Systems, Swapping: Mechanisms, Swapping: Policies
Nov. 27	Lecture 21: NFS, AFS (optional readings)
Dec. 2	Lecture 22: TBA
Dec. 4	Lecture 23: TBA