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.

Note assigned readings are subject to change, please check this page each week.

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: Test 1 Review
Oct. 7	Test 1 (in class)
Oct. 9	Lecture 10: Concurrency and Threads, Locks
Oct. 14	Lecture 11: Concurrent Data Structures, Thread API
Oct. 16	Lecture 11: Condition Variables, Semaphores, Concurrency Problems
Oct. 21	Lecture 12: TLBs, Smaller Tables
Oct. 23	Lecture 13: 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