CS 574: Midterm Topics

1. Microkernels and Virtualization
   • Definition of microkernel. User/kernel boundaries. Message-passing
   • Virtualization. Abstracting hardware to VM
2. Filesystems
   • Filesystem goals
   • VFS Layer
   • Enhancements to standard disk filesystems (e.g. journalling)
   • Flash filesystems
   • FUSE filesystems
3. Schedulers
   • Scheduler goals
   • Scheduling algorithms
     • EDF, RR, SFQ
4. Virtual Memory
   • Forward, Inverted, and Hashed page tables
   • Page coloring and other techniques to improve cache hit rates

Last modified: Mon Oct 19 11:58:44 MDT 2009