CS 3733 Operating Systems Daily Topics

1. Tuesday, January 16

Introductory Lecture, what is an OS?

Processes

PUP Chapter 2, through Section 2.2

PUP, finished Chpater 2

PUP Chapter 3, through Section 3.2

PUP Sections 3.3 through 3.5

PUP Sections 3.5, Example 3.20 through end of Chapter 3

PUP, Section 4.1

Tracing Program 4.1 and demo in lab

Interprocesses Communication and Synchronization (Tanenbaum, Chapter 2) through Peterson's solution

Finished Peterson's solution, synchronization hardware, semaphores, the bounded buffer problem

Monitors, readers and writers, dining philosophers

Chapter 8 of PUP, starting with Section 8.4, Semaphores in System V

A brief look at POSIX semaphores, start Chapter 5 of PUP, through sigprocmask.

Review for midterm exam, continue signals upto sigaction

Midterm exam

Give back midterm, continue signals starting with sigaction, up to biff example

Continue signals starting with biff example, Semaphores and signals (PUP, Section 8.5), Start Process Scheduling (Tan, Section 2.4) through preemptive scheduling

-------------------- Spring Break --------------------

19. Tuesday, March 26

Continue process scheduling, through round robin scheduling.

Finish process scheduling, start memory management (Tan, Chapter 3)

Discuss leader election, memory management: partitiions, paging

memory management: virtual memory, page replacement: FIFO

virtual memory page replacement algorithms: optimal, LRU, LRU approximation, second chance, clock, VAX, BSD Unix

Virtual memory example: the VAX, Network Communications: PUP Chapter 12 through Section 12.1.

Network Communications starting with Section 12.2, UICI through Section 12.2.1.

Evaluations, PUP Section 12.2.2, Discussion of Assignment 5

sockets, UICI implementation

Threads

Assignment 5 demonstrations

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