CIS4307: Selected Topics

• First Lecture: Almost for Fun ..
• Concurrency, Performance, and other Preliminaries
  • Understanding Concurrency: Interleavings
  • Spinlocks and Semaphores
    • Franke, Russell,Kirkwood: Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast UserLevel Locking in Linux
    • Drepper: Futexes are Tricky
  • Readers and Writers
  • Monitors
  • Transactional Memory
  • File Structure - Stable Storage
    • Princeton University CS598e: Distributed Storage Systems
  • Performance Evaluation
    • Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering
    • Lazowska et al: Quantitative System Performance
• Unix Programming
  
  • Unix I: process management and file commands
  • Unix II: errors, pipes, FIFOs, protection, file locks, shared memory, and memory-mapped IO
    • Using Read and Write Locks: Example
    • The ZFS File System
  • Measuring Time
    • lmbench: Tools for Performance Analysis
    • Performance Analysis Results using LMBENCH
    • Sun Performance Information
  • Signals
    • Tutorial on Signals by Jim Frost (Software Tool & Die)
  • Threads: Part I, Part II
    • Livermore: Posix Threads Programming
  • Unix III: select
  • Unix IV: Sockets
  • Daemons