Week 11

Readings & Notes

• xv6 Book

Notes

• Ferd’s notes

Code

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Additional Resources

• Browsable xv6 source code
• 2.7 Operating-System Structure in Operating system concepts, available online through our library
• xv6 Installation Instructions
• xv6 Book, Chapter 3
• xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system (Homepage)
• The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond, in particular,
  • Chapter 2. History
• A Guide Through The History of Unix & Linux, another take on the history of Unix & Linux. Watch the video!
• The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate on Minix vs. Linux and more widely, micro- vs. monokernels
• Completely Fair Scheduler, the current Linux scheduler
• Inside the Linux 2.6 Completely Fair Scheduler, another look at CFS