Lecture Plan, Autumn 2001

In the following plan, the abbreviation HPOS refers to the notes:

• High Performance Operating Systems,
  by Robin Sharp.

DATE		TEXT			TOPIC
Sep.	 6	HPOS, Ch. 1		Introduction.  OS architecture.
		HPOS, Ch. 2 (p.9-21)	Static and dynamic scheduling.
					RM, DM, EDF scheduling.
					Schedulability analysis.
Sep.	13	HPOS, Ch. 2 (p.21-35)	Scheduling dependent tasks.
					Priority inversion, PIP and PCP.
					Sporadic and aperiodic tasks.
Sep.	20	HPOS, Ch. 3 (p.41-68)	Memory management. Address translation.
					Virtual memory policies.
					Implementation of the VM manager.
Sep.	27	HPOS, Ch. 3 (p.68-74)	Real-time memory management.
					Application-level paging.
		HPOS, Ch. 4 (p.79-89)	Kernel threads and user threads.
					Two-level schedulers.
Oct.	 3	HPOS, Ch. 4 (p.89-110)	Synchronisation.  Barriers.
					Process and thread creation.
Oct.	11	HPOS, Ch. 5 (p.115-132)	IPC data passing semantics.
					Remote Procedure Call.
					User-level IPC.
					Hardware-assisted IPC.
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Oct.	18	A U T U M N   H O L I D A Y
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Oct.	25	HPOS, Ch. 6 (p.135-156)	Hardware architecture: buses, caches.
					Interrupt handlers, DMA transfers,
					  polling.
Nov.	 1	HPOS, Ch. 7 (p.159-184)	Disk systems, disk arrays.
					Disk scheduling.
					File system data structures.
					Clustering, LFS.
Nov.	 8	HPOS, Ch. 7 (p.184-194) File caches.
                HPOS, Ch. 9 (p.199-217)	Multimedia task scheduling.
					End-to-end scheduling.
Nov.	15
Nov.	22	  )
Nov.	29	  ) PROJECT PERIOD.  NO ORDINARY LECTURES.
Dec.	 6	  )

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