Operating Systems II 2002-03
Principal lecturer: Dr Steven Hand (smh22@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Taken by: Part IB
Operating Systems II
Lecturer: Dr S.M. Hand
(smh22@cl.cam.ac.uk)
No. of lectures: 8
Prerequisite courses: Operating Systems, Concurrent Systems and Applications
Aims
This course hopes to impart a detailed understanding of the algorithms
and techniques used within operating systems. It aims to consolidate
and build upon the knowledge learned in earlier courses, and to
encourage students to develop an appreciation for the trade-offs
involved in designing and implementing an operating system.
Lectures
- Thread scheduling.
Recap: OS functions & structures. Thread
package architectures (user, kernel, combined).
Scheduling for multiprocessors.
- Real-time systems.
Introduction. Real-time scheduling:
static versus dynamic algorithms. Examples (RM, EDF, etc.).
Priority inversion. SRT/multimedia scheduling.
- Virtual memory management.
Logical versus physical addresses. Address binding. Single
and multi-VAS models. Review: segmented/paged memory.
Translation schemes. Demand paging/segmentation. Replacement
strategies: OPT, FIFO, LRU (and approximations), NRU, LFU/MFU, MRU.
Working set schemes. Application hooks. Prepaging and page daemons.
Case studies. [2 lectures]
- Storage systems.
Basic I/O revisited. Disks I/O.
Disk scheduling: FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN, etc.
Logical volumes. RAID. Disk caching; motivation, Unix buffer cache,
NT cache manager. Filing systems: file mapping algorithms, metadata,
namespace. Directory implementation. Integrity management. Examples:
FAT, FFS/EXT2, NTFS, LFS. [3 lectures]
- Protection.
Requirements. Subjects and objects. Design principles. Authentication
schemes. Access matrix: ACLs and capabilities. Combined scheme.
Covert channels.
Objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to
- write a simple program which implements any simple disk
scheduling algorithm
- define the ``working set'' of a process
- sketch the design of a log-structured file system
- describe the advantages/disadvantages of the
various page-replacement strategies
- understand the differences between ACLs and capabilities
Recommended books
Bacon, J. & Harris, T. (2003). Operating Systems or Bacon,
J. (1997) Concurrent Systems (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley.
Silberschatz, A., Peterson, J.L. & Galvin, P.C. (1998). Operating Systems Concepts. Addison-Wesley (5th ed.).
Tanenbaum, A.S. (1992). Modern Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall.
Leffler, S. (1989). The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix
Operating System. Addison-Wesley.
Solomon, D. (1998). Inside Windows NT. Microsoft Press (2nd ed.).
Singal, M. & Shivaratri, N. (1994). Advanced Concepts in Operating
Systems: Distributed, Database, and Multiprocessor Operating
Systems. McGraw-Hill.
Useful Links
The notes [gzipped postscript,
PDF] and the
past exam questions are available on-line. You may notice that the
relevant past papers are from a course entitled "Operating System
Functions"; this has morphed into this course with some change
of syllabus. However many of the past questions should be answerable.
You can also find a selection of useful papers
here.
And for the guy who asked me about embedded systems stuff, you may
find the Emeralds
stuff of interest.
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