CS 574: Midterm Topics

Review Topics

• Hardware support for OS
  • virtual memory
  • user mode vs. kernel mode
  • file systems

Microkernels

• Device drivers in user space
• Exporting resources directly

File Systems

• Kernel file system interface
• Data structures on disk

Schedulers

• Multiplexed access to resources
• Quality of service guarantees

VM and page coloring

• hashed page tables
• cache hit rates

Last modified: Mon Oct 16 11:12:24 MDT 2006