Course pages 2016–17

Advanced Operating Systems

Course materials for L41: Advanced Operating Systems

L41: Advanced Operating Systems teaches OS internals, experimental methodology, and systems-research topics through a hands-on, lab-based course based on the FreeBSD operating system and BeagleBone Black embedded ARM board.

Course handouts

These course handouts provide more detailed information about the module and laboratory environment.

• L41 - Syllabus (PDF)
• L41 - Readings (PDF)
• L41 - DTrace Quick Start (PDF)
• L41 - Lab Reports (PDF)
• L41 - Lab Setup (PDF)

Lecture slides

Lecture slides will be posted shortly before each lecture.

• L41 - Lecture 1: Advanced Operating Systems: Tracing, Analysis, and Experimentation (PDF)
• L41 - Lecture 2: Kernels and Tracing (PDF)
• L41 - Lecture 3: The Process Model (1) (PDF)
• L41 - Lecture 4: The Process Model (2) (PDF)
• L41 - Lecture 5: The Network Stack (1) (PDF)
• L41 - Lecture 6: The Network Stack (2) (PDF)

Lecturelet slides

Lecturelet slides will be posted shortly before each lab.

• L41 - Lecturelet 1: I/O
• L41 - Lecturelet 2: Kernel implications of IPC
• L41 - Lecturelet 3: Micro-architectural implications of IPC (PDF)
• L41 - Lecturelet 4: The TCP state machine (PDF)
• L41 - Lecturelet 5: TCP latency and bandwidth (PDF)

Lab handouts

Lab handouts will be posted shortly before each lab.

1. L41 - Lab 1: I/O (PDF)
2. L41 - Lab 2: Kernel implications of IPC (PDF)
3. L41 - Lab 3: Micro-architectural implications of IPC (PDF)
4. L41 - Lab 4: The TCP state machine (PDF)
5. L41 - Lab 5: TCP latency and bandwidth (PDF)

Lab Jupyter Notebook templates

• L41 - Lab 1 Jupyter Notebook template
• L41 - Lab 2 Jupyter Notebook template
• L41 - Lab 3 Jupyter Notebook template
• L41 - Lab 4/5 Jupyter Notebook template

Lab Report Template

This Lab Report template must be used for all submissions. Please see the Lab Report handout above for more details.

• L41 - Lab Report template

Lab Analysis Notes

These notes provide retrospective information on data collection and analysis for L41's lab assignments.

Lab analysis notes will be posted shortly after Lab Report 1 is due.

• L41 - Lab 1: I/O - Analysis Notes

Useful reference material

• FreeBSD operating system
• BeagleBone Black
• ARM Cortex A8 r3p2 performance-counter documentation

Last Year

Last year’s course materials are still available.