Operating Systems: Virtualization, Concurrency & Persistence

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• The fundamentals of CPU virtualization and memory, including CPU scheduling, process virtualization, and API virtualization.
• Concurrency concepts, with a focus on locks, semaphores, and how to triage concurrency bugs such as deadlocks.

Syllabus :

• Introduction
• Processes
• Process API
• Direct Execution
• CPU Scheduling
• Multi-Level Feedback
• Lottery Scheduling
• Multi-CPU Scheduling
• Address Space
• Memory API
• Address Translation
• Segmentation
• Free Space Management
• Introduction to Paging
• Translation Lookaside Buffers
• Advanced Page Tables
• Swapping: Mechanisms
• Swapping: Policies
• Complete VM Systems
• Concurrency and Threads
• Thread API
• Locks
• Locked Data Structures
• Conditional Variables
• Semaphores
• Concurrency Bugs
• Event-Based Concurrency
• I/O Devices
• Hard Disk Drives
• Redundant Disk Arrays (RAID)
• iles and Directories
• File System Implementation
• Fast File System
• FSCK and Journaling
• Log-Structured File System
• Flash-based SSDs
• Persistence: Data Integrity and Protection
• Distributed Systems
• Network File System (NFS)
• Andrew File System (AFS)