| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 3 | sep 4 Reg Day |
sep 5 LEC 1 (fk): Operating systems (handouts: xv6 source, xv6 book) Preparation: Unix intro Assignment: Lab 1: C, Assembly, Tools, and Bootstrapping |
sep 6 | sep 7 |
| sep 10 LEC 2 (ab): PC hardware and x86 programming slides, notes Preparation: Read Bootstrap/PC hardware appendices and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: Boot xv6 |
sep 11 | sep 12 LEC 3 (TAs): C and gdb (pointers example) Homework 1 due: Boot xv6 Preparation: Read 2.9 (Bitwise operators), 5.1 (Pointers and Addresses) through 5.5(Character Pointers and Functions) and 6.4 (pointers to structures) in K&R Assignment: HW: shell Assignment: Lab 2: Memory management |
sep 13 DUE: Lab 1 |
sep 14 |
| sep 17 LEC 4 (fk): Shell & OS organization Preparation: Read chapter 0 of the xv6 book. Homework 2 due: shell |
sep 18 | sep 19 LEC 5 (fk): Isolation mechanisms Preparation: Read "Chapter 1: Operating system organization" and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: system calls |
sep 20 | sep 21 |
| sep 24 LEC 6 (ab): Virtual memory (1) (handouts: page table translation and registers) (slides) Preparation: Read "Chapter 2: Page Tables" Homework 3 due: system calls Assignment: HW lazy page allocation |
sep 25 | sep 26 LEC 7 (ab): Virtual memory (2) (handout: JOS virtual memory layout) (slides) Homework 4 due: HW lazy page allocation Assignment: HW xv6 CPU alarm Assignment: Lab 3: User-Level Environments |
sep 27 DUE: Lab 2 |
sep 28 |
| oct 1 LEC 8 (fk): System calls, interrupts, exceptions (handouts: IDT) Preparation: Read "Traps, interrupts, and drivers" and the related xv6 source files Homework 5 due: HW xv6 CPU alarm Assignment: HW multithreaded programming |
oct 2 | oct 3 LEC 9 (ab): Multiprocessors and locking (slides) Preparation: Read "Locking" with spinlock.c and skim mp.c Homework 6 due: HW multithreaded programming Assignment: HW xv6 locks |
oct 4 DUE: Lab 3 (Part A) |
oct 5 ADD DATE |
| oct 8 - oct 9 Columbus Day |
oct 10 Hacking day Assignment: Lab 4: Preemptive Multitasking |
oct 11 DUE: Lab 3 (Part B) |
oct 12 | |
| oct 15 LEC 10 (ab): Processes and switching Preparation: Read "Scheduling" up to "Sleep and wakeup" and proc.c, swtch.S Homework 7 due: HW xv6 locks Assignment: HW uthreads |
oct 16 | oct 17 LEC 11 (fk): sleep&wakeup Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling", and corresponding parts of proc.c Homework 8 due: HW uthreads Assignment: HW barrier |
oct 18 DUE: Lab 4 (Part A) |
oct 19 |
| oct 22 LEC 12 (fk): File systems Preparation: Read bio.c, fs.c, sysfile.c, file.c and "File system" except for the logging sections Homework 9 due: HW barrier Assignment: HW big files |
oct 23 | oct 24 LEC 13 (fk): Crash recovery Preparation: Read log.c and the logging sections of "File system" Homework 10 due: HW big files Assignment: HW crash Assignment: Lab 6: Networking Assignment: Lab 7: Final project |
oct 25 DUE: Lab 4 (Part B) |
oct 26 |
| oct 29 Quiz #1 open book and notes scope: Lectures 1 through 13, HW 1 through 10, labs 1 through 3 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
oct 30 | oct 31 Hacking day Assignment: Lab 5: File system, spawn, and sh |
nov 1 DUE: Lab 4 (Part C) |
nov 2 DUE: Piazza discussion final project |
| nov 5 LEC 14 (fk): File system performance and fast crash recovery Homework 11 due: HW crash Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) Assignment: mmap() |
nov 6 | nov 7 LEC 15 (ab): Virtual Memory (3) (slides) Preparation: Read Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs (1991) Homework 12 due: mmap |
nov 8 DUE: Final project proposal (if doing project) |
nov 9 |
| nov 12 Veteran's Day |
nov 13 | nov 14 LEC 16 (fk): OS Organization Preparation: Read Exokernel (1995) Homework 13 due: HW exokernel question |
nov 15 DUE: Lab 5 |
nov 16 |
| nov 19 LEC 17 (cc): Kernels and HLL Preparation: Read the Biscuit paper (2018) Homework 14 due: HW Biscuit question |
nov 20 | nov 21 DROP DATE LEC 18 (ab): Scalable locks (slides) (code) Preparation: Read Non-scalable locks paper (2012) Homework 15 due: ticket lock question |
nov 22 - nov 23 Thanksgiving |
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| nov 26 LEC 19 (ab): Scaling OSes slides Preparation: Read RCU (2013) Homework 16 due: RCU question DUE: Email us a status update on your final project (a paragraph) |
nov 27 | nov 28 LEC 20 (ab): Virtual Machines (1) (slides) Preparation: Read Software vs Hardware Virtualization (2006) Homework 17 due: VM question |
nov 29 | nov 30 |
| dec 3 LEC 21 (ab): Virtual Machines (2) (slides) Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 18 due: Dune question |
dec 4 | dec 5 Hacking day |
dec 6 DUE: Lab 6 (networking) or lab 7 (Final project) |
dec 7 |
| dec 10 LEC 22 (fk): High-performance networking Preparation: Read IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (2014) Homework 19 due: IX question |
dec 11 | dec 12 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 23: demos in class Project sign-offs |
dec 13 | dec 14 |
| dec 17 | dec 18 | dec 19 | dec 20 Quiz #2 DUPONT-Gym, 9am-11pm open book, notes, and papers. scope: Lectures 14 through last lecture (dec 12), labs 4 and 5. practice: previous years' quizzes. |
dec 21 |
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