Standard syllabus
Operating systems · Undergraduate · CS / Programming
Topics
Processes and threads
- Process abstraction; PCB and context switch
- CPU scheduling: FCFS, SJF, priority, round-robin
- Synchronization: mutexes, semaphores, monitors
- Classic problems: producer–consumer, readers–writers
- Deadlock: conditions, prevention, avoidance, detection
Memory and storage
- Virtual memory, paging, and TLBs
- Page replacement policies: LRU, clock (intro)
- Segmentation and combined models (survey)
- File systems: inode, directories, allocation methods
- I/O scheduling and disk management (intro)
Core OS mechanisms
- Processes vs threads; context switching
- Scheduling policies and fairness tradeoffs
- Virtual memory, paging, and TLBs (intro)
- Synchronization: mutexes, semaphores, condition variables
- Deadlock conditions and avoidance/detection
- File systems metadata and crash consistency (survey)
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