CS3013 Final Exam Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the final exam:

• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
    • use-proc-table.c() for 2 processor support
• Memory Management
  • Simple
  • Variable and Fixed Partitions
  • Swapping
  • Paging
    • Page Tables
    • Associative Registers
    • Multilevel Paging
    • Inverted Page Tables
  • Segmentation
• Virtual Memory
  • Page faults
  • Page replacement algorithms
  • Thrashing
  • Paging tradeoffs
• I/O Devices
  • Device independent layer
  • Device driver
  • Interrupt handler
  • Disks
    • Disk block scheduling
  • Clocks
• Software interrupts
  • signal()
  • wait()
• Project 2
  • Adding system calls
  • Scribes
    • System calls
    • Internal structures
    • Functionality
      • semaphore.c() (in relation to scribes)
  • Chat
    • Basic issues
    • Basic functionality

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