PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Scheduling

[Agrawal 1984]

Discusses methods for tuning the fair-share scheduler in VM/370.

[Bunt 1976]

A survey of scheduling techniques.

[Henry 1984]

Describes the "fair share" scheduling algorithm, a proposed addition to Unix which divides users into groups and ensures each group its fair share of total resources.

Concurrency

[Atwood 1976]

Overview of concurrency in OSs.

[Andrews & Schneider 1983]

A good survey of mechanisms for concurrency control and synchronization, and language structures for expressing these mechanisms.

[Artsy et al 1986]

Describes IPC techniques using links in Charlotte.

[Haberman 1969]

An early study of deadlock prevention techniques, which introduced the Bankers Algorithm.

[Havendar 1968]

Describes techniques used for deadlock avoidance in OS/360.

[Hoare 1985]

Communicating sequential Processes. the book.

[Peterson 1983]

A new solution to the mutual exclusion problem.

[Raynal 1986]

A comparative study of algorithms for mutual exclusion, in both centralized and distributed systems.