Sun Education Course Announcement

[Susan Morin]

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

Questions:    Gary Morin, Programming Training Manager, 
              (408) 276-3632, or via email sun\!gmorin
              or gmorin at sun.com.

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.