Operating Systems II

Concurrency: States & state diagrams, Structures, Dispatching and Context switching; interrupts, Concurrent execution, mutual exclusion problem and some solutions. Deadlock; Models and mechanisms (Semaphores, monitors etc)Producer-consumer problem & synchronization; Multiprocessor issues; Scheduling and dispatching, ; Memory management: Overlays, swapping and partition, paging and segmentation, placement and replacement policies, working sets and trashing, caching.