Part of the Software Internals Email Book Club.
The next book we'll read is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. The book is freely available online or you can buy a physical copy.
Because this book is not short we're going to read it in three chunks. I will only ask people to be the discussion starter for chapters until the next BREAK. During the BREAK we'll pause for a bit to allow people to catch up and for new people to join.
We won't read the online-only sections on Security after Chapter 51.
Sign up here. You will be added to the Google Group eventually. I add everyone manually and it rate limits me to 50 or something invites per day. You also must allow me to add you directly or invite you, in your Google Group settings.
| Date | Discussion starter | Chapter(s) | Title |
| January 24 | Phil Eaton | 1 & 2 | Dialogue & Introduction |
| January 31 | Katarzyna Zalewska | 3 & 4 | Dialogue & Processes |
| February 7 | Lionel Montrieux | 5 | Process API |
| February 14 | Stephen Maresh | 6 | Direct Execution |
| February 21 | Mohit Karekar | 7 | CPU Scheduling |
| February 28 | Jake Westfall | 8 | Multi-level Feedback |
| March 7 | Handrian Vittorio | 9 | Lottery Scheduling |
| March 14 | Tamir Hemo | 10 & 11 | Multi-CPU Scheduling & Summary |
| March 21 | Bhargav Voleti | 12 & 13 | Dialog & Address Spaces |
| March 28 | Floria Tsui | 14 | Memory API |
| April 4 | Hendrik Makait | 15 | Address Translation |
| April 11 | Rohith Reddy Kota | 16 | Segmentation |
| April 18 | Pranav Pateriya | 17 | Free Space Management |
| BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | Regroup |
| June 5 | None | 18 | Introduction to Paging |
| June 12 | TBD | 19 | Translation Lookaside Buffers |
| June 19 | TBD | 20 | Advanced Page Tables |
| June 26 | TBD | 21 | Swapping: Mechanisms |
| July 3 | TBD | 22 | Swapping: Policies |
| July 10 | TBD | 23 & 24 | Complete VM Systems & Summary |
| July 17 | TBD | 25 & 26 | Dialogue & Concurrency and Threads |
| July 24 | TBD | 27 | Thread API |
| July 31 | TBD | 28 | Locks |
| August 7 | TBD | 29 | Locked Data Structures |
| August 14 | TBD | 30 | Condition Variables |
| August 21 | TBD | 31 | Semaphores |
| August 28 | TBD | 32 | Concurrency Bugs |
| September 4 | TBD | 33 & 34 | Event-based Concurrency & Summary |
| September 11 | TBD | 35 & 36 | Dialogue & I/O Devices |
| September 18 | TBD | 37 | Hard Disk Drives |
| September 25 | TBD | 38 | Redundant Disk Arrays (RAID) |
| October 2 | TBD | 39 | Files and Directories |
| October 9 | TBD | 40 | File System Implementation |
| October 16 | TBD | 41 | Fast File System (FFS) |
| October 23 | TBD | 42 | FSCK and Journaling |
| October 30 | TBD | 43 | Log-structured File System (LFS) |
| November 6 | TBD | 44 | Flash-based SSDs |
| November 13 | TBD | 45 & 46 | Data Integrity and Protection & Summary |
| November 20 | TBD | 47 & 48 | Dialogue & Distributed Systems |
| November 27 | TBD | 49 | Network File System (NFS) |
| December 4 | TBD | 50 & 51 | Andrew File System (AFS) & Summary |
All discussion is via a Google Group. You probably need a Google account. Your email will be public if you post but otherwise it will not be visible to anyone.
There will be no Zoom or Google Hangout, it will purely be over text email.
You should read the chapter before the date it is listed.
Each weekend, one person will send out an email to start discussion. It can be as short as a paragraph or two just to get discussion going. Anyone else can chime in afterward.
It's most fun if this discussion starter doesn't summarize the chapter but tells a bit about themselves, their background, and what resonated or was confusing in the chapter, or how it tied back to something they experienced in the real-world.
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