COSC440

Lecture and lab timetable

This is the schedule of lectures and labs. It is subjected to change when necessary. All laboratories are held in Room 127 of the Owheo building.

Week beginning Lecture topics Lab topics Reading
10 July Lecture 1: Introduction Lab 1: Installation of RPI Linux and system calls The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System
The UNIX Time-Sharing System
17 July Lecture 2: Processes Lab 2: The structure of a Linux kernel module Eliminating Receive Livelock in an Interrupt-driven Kernel
24 July Lecture 3: Interrupts Lab 3: Linked list, seeking device and process sleeping Read-Copy Update
Wikipedia article on Read-copy-update
31 July Lecture 4: Character devices Lab 4: Mutex, semaphore and the /proc filesystem Exokernel
7 August Lecture 5: Debugging & concurrency in kernel Lab 5: Memory management Scalable Address Spaces Using RCU Balanced Trees
14 August Lecture 6: Advanced char driver Lab 6: Using ioctl() KeyKOS
KeyKOS Homepage
21 August Lecture 7: Hardware and interrupt handler Lab 7: Catchup lab Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The Netmap Framework
Mid-semester break: August 28th - September 1st
4 September Lecture 8: File system performance and durability Lab 8: Hardware interrupt and tasklet Rethink the Sync!
11 September Lecture 9:Distributed OS Lab 9: Walking through the Assignment 2 Fault tolerance under UNIX
18 September Lecture 10: Virtualization and Security Lab 10: Timer A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization
25 September Lecture 11: Multicore Computing Presentation session 1 of Assignment 3 Backtracking Intrusions
2 October Presentation session 2 of Assignment 3 Presentation session 3 of Assignment 3
9 October Presentation session 4 of Assignment 3 Presentation session 5 of Assignment 3
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