CSE306: Schedule of Topics (Spring 2023)

This schedule should be regarded as a plan that will certainly change during the course of the semester. The set of topics more or less matches what I expect to cover, and I expect to cover them in roughly the order listed, but might have to rearrange things in order to try to keep lecture topics in advance of the homework assignments that relate to them.

My rough plan for the homework assignments is as follows:

• HW1: xv6 basic operation; interrupt handling; system calls

• HW2: xv6 more advanced operation; address translation; process address space layout; device drivers

• HW3: CPU scheduling

• HW4: Filesystems

• HW5: Virtual memory

NOTE: Chapter numbers listed below are for Anderson and Dahlin, Operating Systems: Principles and Practice (2nd edition) and the xv6 book, rev. 10. The xv6 book is also an excellent source of general operating systems material, as well as being the primary reference for the homework assignments. The final exam questions will not necessarily be limited just to material explicitly covered in lectures, but will likely also span general operating systems knowledge that you would be expected to have acquired by having read the related sections of these texts.

I will upload the lecture slides to Piazza as the semester progresses.