CS33100 Advanced Operating Systems

David Beazley
Ry257B
702-9111
beazley@cs.uchicago.edu

• Syllabus.

Assignments and projects

• Assignment 1. October 8, 2002.
• Project 1.
• Project 2.
• Project 3.

Handouts

• "Beyond Multiprocessing: Multithreading the SunOS Kernel"
• "A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads Under Unix"

• "SunOS 5.0 Multithreaded Architecture"

Lectures

• Lecture 1. SMP Computer architecture.
• Lecture 2. Threads. Kernel threads.
• Lecture 3. User threads. Solaris LWP model. Nasty thread problems.
• Lecture 4. Scheduler Activations, MACH continuations.
• Lecture 5. Discussion of project.
• Lecture 6. IPC, Message Passing.
• Lecture 7. Active Messages, RPC, Doors.
• Lecture 8. Linking, libraries, and loading.