Lectures

Week	Topic	Print
01	Introduction (Microkernels and seL4)
02	Caches (What every OS designer must know) Papers: [Clark, Emer 1985], [Uhlig et al. 1994], [Wiggins 2003] Book: [Schimmel 1994]
03	OS Execution Models
	Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)
	Why Events are a Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) Papers: [von Behren et al., 2003]
04	Virtual Machines [Barham et al., 2003], [Waldspurger, 2002], [Adams and Agesen, 2006]
05	Microkernel Design (with focus on seL4) Papers:[Liedtke 1993], [Liedtke 1995], [Blackham & Heiser 2012], [Blackham et al. 2012]
06	Performance Evaluation [Fleming and Wallace, 1986] [Gernot's Benchmarking Crimes]
07	Device Drivers [Swift et al. 2003] [Leslie et al. 2005]
	Automatic Device Driver Synthesis with Termite
08	SMP and Locking [Anderson, 1990]
09	Security
10	Multiprocessors 2 Drawbridge [Porter et al., 2011]
11	Scalability and Linux Internals
12	Local Systems Research

References in square brackets are recommended readings from the papers list.

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