Course Title

Linux Multithreaded Architecture & Programming

Course Overview

This intensive training course teaches about multi-threaded, multi-core, parallel and/or concurrent programming techniques & architectures using Linux and C. Besides explaining about user and kernel level threads, it helps attendees understand the difference between single thread/process model and multithreaded programming models, thereby allowing the programmer to understand the intricacies involved in developing multithreaded, multi-core, parallel and/or concurrent programs and how to troubleshoot them.
The hands-on lab familiarize attendees with multithreaded programming model with threads creation and execution followed by complex scenarios likes races, synchronization, deadlock situation and troubleshooting them. The lab will consist of pthreads library in a Linux environment.

Course Highlights

1. Course will be delivered by our Founder/Director who is an Expert with 17+ years of experience in Linux Kernel and SAN software development.
2. The course flow will be an assignment driven model so that participants can have a hands-on experience of multithreaded and parallel programming techniques.

Course Delivery

1. Lectures, Classroom Discussions and Lab Exercises
2. 30% Theory, 70% Lab
3. Location: Sanfoundry Institute, Bangalore, India

Pre-Requisites

1. A sound knowledge of C programming language
2. Linux/Unix Systems Programming

Target Audience

IT Professionals / Developers who are doing development & sustenance of complex system software products in any domain (systems, kernels, databases, search engines, applications, browsers, routers,  switches, etc…)

Course Details

1. Introduction to Threads
2. Parallelism
3. Multi-cores
4. Introduction to Thread
5. Threads – Application
6. User Level Threads (ULT)
7. Advantage of ULT
8. Disadvantage of ULT
9. Kernel Level Threads (KLT)
10. Advantage of KLT
11. Disadvantage of KLT
12. Threads Vs Processes
13. Process Memory Layout
14. Child Process Memory
15. Threads Inside Processes
16. Thread Memory Layout
17. Thread Programming – I
18. Introduction to Pthreads (POSIX Threads)
19. Thread Creation
20. Thread Termination
21. Thread Id & Attributes
22. Thread Joining & Detaching
23. Thread Priorities
24. Thread Cancellations
25. Thread Cleanup Handling
26. Passing Info to Threads
27. Thread Programming – II
28. Thread Synchronizations
29. Mutual Exclusions
30. Condition Variables
31. Thread Safe Operations
32. Thread Signal Handling
33. Thread Signal Masking
34. Issues @ Threads
35. Races & Deadlocks
36. Threads  & Process Resources
37. Threads – File Handling
38. Threads – IPC Handling