The course follows the three parts of Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces : virtualisation, concurrency and persistence. Each lecture links its slides and its class recording; lectures 15 to 17 were not recorded. Programs shown in class are in the code folder .
Virtualisation: processes and the CPU1–8 Virtualisation: memory9–16 Concurrency17–26 Persistence27–32
Virtualisation: processes and the CPU Lectures 1–8
Lecture 01Introduction and logistics Lecture 02The process Lecture 03The process API (fork, wait, exec) Lecture 04Revisiting the Linux shell Lecture 05CPU scheduling policies Lecture 06CPU scheduling: MLFQ Lecture 07MLFQ and limited direct execution Lecture 08Limited direct execution and memory virtualisation
Virtualisation: memory Lectures 9–16
Lecture 09Memory management: introduction Lecture 10Base and bounds, and segmentation Lecture 11Segmentation and paging Lecture 12Paging and TLBs Lecture 13TLBs and advanced paging Lecture 14Advanced paging and swapping Lecture 15Swapping Lecture 16Swapping and free-space management · Memory management in Linux
Concurrency Lectures 17–26
Lecture 17Concurrency and threads Lecture 18Quiz discussion; threads and locks Lecture 19Locks Lecture 20Advanced locks Lecture 21Condition variables Lecture 22Condition variables (advanced) Lecture 23Condition variables and semaphores Lecture 24Semaphores and deadlocks Lecture 25Common concurrency problems Lecture 26Semaphores revision and common concurrency problems
Persistence Lectures 27–32
Lecture 27I/O devices and hard disks Lecture 28Hard disks and RAID Lecture 29RAID (continued) Lecture 30Files and directories Lecture 31File systems (continued) Lecture 32File system implementation
Slides are the PDFs used in class. Recordings are full class videos from the 2018 offering.