02.14.89
We are pleased to introduce the SunOS Internals course as described
below. We anticipate that this will be a popular offering.
Course: UP-450
SunOS Internals: Data Structures and Algorithms
Duration: 3 days
Dates: 03/20/89 - 03/22/89
05/15/89 - 15/17/89
Tuition: $750
Location: Sun Microsystems Education Center
1494 California Circle
Milpitas, CA 95058
Registration:
Call our registrar at 800-422-8020.
When registering, please have this information ready:
name of student(s)
company name, invoicing address, phone
course title (SunOS Internals)
course number (UP-450)
date you wish to attend
terms of payment
Description:
This course provides a broad overview of how the SunOS kernel
provides its basic services. It will be most useful to those who
need to learn how these services are provided. Individuals
involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities
and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn
how to effectively and efficiently interface to the system;
systems programmers without direct experience with the SunOS
UNIX kernel can learn how to maintain, tune, and interface to that
system.
This course is directed to users who have had at least a year of
experience using the UNIX system. They should have an understanding
of fundamental algorithms (searching, sorting, and hashing) and
data structures (lists, queues, and arrays). Students will not need
to prove relationship with a source license holder, as actual source
code will not be presented.
This course will provide a firm background in the SunOS kernel.
The SunOS kernel supports both the BSD (Berkeley) and AT&T System
V user interfaces. (In this course, only the BSD user interface
and services will be covered.) The first half of the course will
cover basic kernel services, process structure, memory management,
scheduling, paging and swapping. The kernel I/O structure will be
described showing how I/O is multiplexed, special devices are
handled, and the buffer pool is managed. The implementation of
the file system and its capabilities will be described. The
introduction to the interprocess and networking capabilities of
the system will provide an overview of networking terminology and
an example use of the socket interface. Other related topics
include performance measurement, system tuning, and security issues.
The presentations will emphasize code organization, data structure
navigation, and algorithms. It will not cover the machine specific
parts of the system such as device drivers.
Agenda: Monday morning - Kernel Overview
Kernel terminology
Basic kernel services
Process structure
Monday afternoon - Kernel Resource Management
Memory management
Paging and swapping
Scheduling
Signals
Tuesday morning - Kernel I/O structure
Special files
Line disciplines
Multiplexing I/O
Autoconfiguration strategy
Structure of a disk device driver
Tuesday afternoon - File System Overview
File system services
Block I/O system (buffer cache)
File system implementation
Vnodes and NFS
Wednesday morning - System Tuning
Performance measurement
System tuning
Crash dump analysis
Security issues
Wednesday afternoon - Interprocess Communication
Concepts and terminology
Basic IPC services
Example use of IPC and network facilities
Subnets, address resolution, and trailers
Routing policy
Instructor:
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick received his undergraduate degree in
Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
His graduate work was done at the University of California, where
he received Masters degrees in Computer Science and Business
Administration, and a Ph.D. in the area of programming languages.
While at Berkeley Dr. McKusick implemented the 4.2BSD fast file
system and was involved in implementing the Berkeley Pascal system.
He currently is the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley
Computer Systems Research Group, continuing the development of
future versions of Berkeley UNIX.
Dr. McKusick is a director of the Usenix Association, a member of
the editorial board of UNIX Review Magazine, and a member of ACM
and IEEE.
Dr. McKusick is one of the authors of the class text "The Design and
Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System".
Class Text:
Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels, and
John S. Quarterman, ``The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD
UNIX Operating System'', Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading,
Massachusetts, 1989, 496 pages, $39.95.
The text will be provided to students in class.