CS560 -- Operating Systems

Jim Plank --- Spring 2009

All online lecture notes

• The p1.c program that we go over in class the first day.
• Threads 1
• Threads 2
• Threads 3
• Threads 4
• The CBThread Library: Continuation-Based Threads
• The Printer Simulation using CBThreads
• The Dining Philosophers (CBThread Version)
• The Scheduling Simulator
• Detailed Paging examples. If you see typos or errors in these notes, please let me know so that I can fix them.
• Topics in the disk/storage lecture:
  • Log-structured file systems
  • Compression
  • RAID
  • Reed-Solomon / Tornado Codes

Papers

• Slides for the Erasure Code Tutorial
• The Ruemmler/Wilkes Paper:

      .article        rw:94:idm
      author          C. Ruemmler and J. Wilkes
      title           An Introduction to Disk Drive Modeling
      journal         IEEE Computer
      volume          27
      number          3
      pages           17--29
      month           March
      year            1994
  

Defunct Lectures:

• KThreads #1: Using KThreads.
• KThreads #2: The KThreads Implementation.
• Pseudo-threads lecture #1
• #2
• Pseudo-thread Lecture #3
• The Dining Philosophers
• Scheduling in Unix