1. Midterm Review
CSE321
B.Ramamurthy
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B.Ramamurthy

2. Exam Date October 16, 2015 Please bring This is a closed book exam.
Pencils, pens and erasers.
This is a closed book exam.
No make up exam will be given.
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B.Ramamurthy

3. Topics Concurrent task execution: unix fork and pthread (as in DCAS)
Realtime system scheduling: Rate monotonic scheduling; earliest deadline scheduling
Priority scheduling: Priority inversion and solution in priority inheritance
Designing a cyclic executive schedule given n tasks and their characteristics
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4. Format 4 questions 20(+/-5) points each;
Each question may have many subsections.
EDS, and RMS scheduling
Designing a cyclic schedule for a set of RT periodic tasks
Identifying priority inversion problem and solve it using priority inheritance
Problem solving using concurrency: pthreads
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5. How to study? Review class notes and questions covered in class
Read the text book chapter 4-5, 7
(Chapter 6 has finite state machine: we will have a question in the final exam on that topic).
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B.Ramamurthy