Dear All,

    Here are the papers that Rob Graham mentioned:

"What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" -- Ulrich Drepper,
    https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

"Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers" -- Paul E. McKenney
    http://www.puppetmastertrading.com/images/hwViewForSwHackers.pdf
(see also: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt)

RCU synchronization:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
    (or: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt)

There were several project ideas proposed during the lecture, such as
evaluating the performance savings of using "huge" pages (1M-2M);
analyzing the adoption of RCU in the Linux kernel and evaluating its
wins; analyzing Masscan (https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan)
and measuring its perfomance gains. Rob will be happy to provide guidance
should you choose any of these.

Also, today you got a taste of embedded OS/firmware reverse engineersing
from Travis Goodspeed. We have the hardware and the software toolchain 
to work with it; I will be posting links to these resources tomorrow.

Thank you,

--Sergey