Lectures

Week	Lecturer	Topic	View	Print
01	Gernot	Introduction (Microkernels and seL4)
02	Gernot	Caches (What every OS designer must know) Papers: [Clark, Emer 1985], [Uhlig et al. 1994], [Wiggins 2003] Book: [Schimmel 1994]
03	Kevin	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	Gernot	Virtual Machines [Barham et al., 2003], [Waldspurger, 2002], [Dall & Nieh, 2014]
05	Gernot	Performance Evaluation [Fleming and Wallace, 1986] [Gernot's Benchmarking Crimes]
06	Kevin	SMP and Locking [Anderson, 1990], [Clements et al. 2013]
07	Gernot	Real-Time Systems [Liu, 2000]
08	Peter	Linux Papers: [McKenney 2004], [McKenney et al 2009], [Ritchie & Thompson 1974]
09	Gernot	Microkernel Design (with focus on seL4) Papers: [Liedtke 1993], [Liedtke 1995], [Blackham et al. 2012], [Elphinstone &Heiser 2013]
10	— —	NO LECTURE
11	Toby	Security
12	Ihor	Multiprocessors, Drawbridge [Porter et al., 2011]
13	Gernot	Exam preparation and Local Systems Research [Klein et al., 2014]

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

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