The Evolution of Operating Systems

A Comprehensive Review of 19 Milestone Papers

This repository contains summaries of several milestone research papers, based on the background and the development of modern day operating systems.

1. Exokernels: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management
2. The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems
3. FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls
4. The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS
5. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Synchronization But Were Afraid To Ask
6. FastTrack: Efficient and Precise Dynamic Race Detection
7. Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial
8. Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel
9. Practical, transparent operating system support for super pages
10. Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications
11. Durinn: Adversarial Memory and Thread Interleaving for Detecting Durable Linearizability Bugs
12. The Sun Network Filesystem: Design, Implementation and Experience
13. Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
14. Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
15. A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization
16. Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
17. Xen and the Art of Virtualization
18. KVM: the Linux Virtual Machine Monitor
19. kAFL: Hardware-Assisted Feedback Fuzzing for OS Kernels

Source

These summaries were written as a part of the course course CSE 506 Operating Systems by Prof. Dongyoon Lee at Stony Brook University.