Teaching operating systems (and systems research) through tracing and analysis.

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• Robert Watson
• Tuesday 02 June 2015, 13:30-13:45
• Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Heidi Howard.

NB change of venue/time to FW26/13:30

This talklet describes the approach, content, and results from teaching L41 : Advanced Operating Systems, a new ACS /Part III module introduced this year. The module combines lectures with a set of hands-on labs in which students use tracing and profiling tools such as DTrace and processor performance counters to explore, analyse, and present behaviour of ‘potted’ I/O, IPC , and TCP microbenchmarks in terms of protocol, OS, architectural, and micro-architectural behaviour. This teaching style offers the opportunity to explore real-world artefacts (i.e., production operating system kernels, TCP ) while avoiding the risks associated with more conventional ‘build an OS’ courses — which would be difficult to fit into our 8-week term schedule. It also provides the opportunity to link practical exercises to contemporary research — e.g., divergence of TCP implementations from the classical state machine. This talklet is intended to be fodder for discussion as much as a presentation, and will hopefully help refine the teaching style and content for its next teaching in Michaelmas term 2015.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets series.

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