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|8||Oct 28||[[#Week 8 - Class I|Intrinsics and SIMDMemory Ordering / Barriers / Acquire-Release Semantics]]||[[#Week 8 - Class II|Project Hacking]]||[[#Week 8 Deliverables|Blog blog about your project.]]
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* Catch up on any incomplete labs (and blog about them)
* Blog about your project selection progress
== Week 8 ==
=== Week 8 - Class I ===
==== Overview/Review of Processor Operation ====
* Fetch-decode-dispatch-execute cycle
* Pipelining
* Branch Prediction
* In-order vs. Out-of-order execution
** Micro-ops
==== Memory Basics ====
* Organization of Memory
** Process organization
*** Text, data
*** Stack
*** Heap
** System organization
*** Kernel memory in process maps
*** Use of unallocated memory for buffers and cache
* Memory Speeds
* Cache
** Cache lookup
** Cache synchronization and invalidation
** Cache line size
* Prefetch
** Prefetch hinting
==== Memory Architecture ====
* Virtual Memory and Memory Management Units (MMUs)
** General principles of Virtual Memory and operation of MMUs
** Memory protection
*** Unmapped Regions
*** Write Protection
*** Execute Protection
*** Privilege Levels
** Swapping
** Text sharing
** Demand Loading
** Data sharing
*** Shared memory for Inter-Process Communication
*** Copy-on-Write (CoW)
** Memory mapped files
=== Memory Statistics ===
* Resident Set Size (RSS) and Virtual Set Size (VSS)
* Total memory consumption per process
* Total system memory consumption
=== Software Impact ===
* Alignment checks
* Page boundary crossing
=== Week 8 - Class II ===
* Project Discussion
=== Week 8 Deliverables ===
* Blog about your project work
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* Organization of Memory
** Process organization
*** Text, data
*** Stack
*** Heap
** System organization
* Memory Speeds
* Cache
* Virtual Memory and Memory Management Units (MMUs)
** General principles of VM Virtual Memory and operation of MMUs
** Memory protection
*** Unmapped Regions
** Swapping
** Text sharing
** Demand Loading
** Data sharing
*** Shared memory for Inter-Process Communication*** Copy-on-Write (CoW)** Demand Loading
** Memory mapped files
