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-* The p1-4.c testcase needs significant tuning.  Currently it takes
-  too long (especially when SHOW_PROGRESS is turned on) and doesn't
-  show significant improvement.
+* The tests in tests/ don't apply the grading patches.
 
-* The semantics of the join system call should change so that it only
-  returns the exit code once.
+* We need better and more example programs.
+
+  - Need an mmap example program as a replacement for the crappy mmap FAQ
+    question.
+
+  - How about `diff' and `cmp' programs?
+
+* Make it clear that the students own their code, because there was some
+  confusion on that point.
+
+* Threads:
+
+  - join-invalid doesn't compile if tid_t is not scalar type.
+
+  - mlfqs tests suck.  They aren't even correct, e.g. the amarv
+    submission from win0405 is graded incorrectly.
+
+* Userprog project:
+
+  - Don't emphasize that stuff needs to be copied from user space to
+    kernel space.  Instead, emphasize validation and suggest that
+    copying is a common solution and that it will be necessary in
+    project 3 and in real OSes.  Also revise the grading criteria to
+    match.
+
+  - Move `join' implementation here, from `threads' project, to help
+    normalize the project difficulties.
+
+  - The semantics of the join system call should change so that it
+    only returns the exit code once.
+
+  - Mark read-only pages as actually read-only in the page table.  Or,
+    since this was consistently rated as the easiest project by the
+    students, require them to do it.
+
+  - Don't provide per-process pagedir implementation but only
+    single-process implementation and require students to implement
+    the separation?  This project was rated as the easiest after all.
+    Alternately we could just remove the synchronization on pid
+    selection and check that students fix it.
+
+* VM project:
+
+  - Discuss the perils of mixing dirty bits between kernel and user virtual
+    memory.
+
+  - Sample solution.
+
+  - Update grading/vm to reflect new mmap, munmap forms.
+
+* Filesys project:
+
+  - Increase maximum disk size from 8 MB to something that actually
+    requires doubly indirect nodes.  There is a negative pressure here
+    from the bitmap object--perhaps we need a specialized bitmap that
+    doesn't have to be all in-memory at once.
+
+    Alternatively, shrink the inode size.
+
+  - Add mkdir and ls example user programs.
+
+  - Add option to disable buffer cache.
+
+  - Get rid of "dump" commands--they're not really useful.
+
+  - Sample solution.
+
+  - Need a better way to measure performance improvement of buffer
+    cache.  Some students reported that their system was slower with
+    cache--likely, Bochs doesn't simulate a disk with a realistic
+    speed.
+
+  - Clarify effect of remove(cwd).
+
+* Documentation:
+
+  - Finish writing tour.
+
+  - Add "Digging Deeper" sections that describe the nitty-gritty x86
+    details for the benefit of those interested.
+
+  - Add explanations of what "real" OSes do to give students some
+    perspective.
+
+* Assignments:
+
+  - Add extra credit:
+
+    . Low-level x86 stuff, like paged page tables.
+
+    . Specifics on how to implement sbrk, malloc.
+
+    . Other good ideas.
+
+    . opendir/readdir/closedir
+
+    . everything needed for getcwd()
+
+  - Add src/testcases/vm, src/testcases/filesys and make it clear to use
+    them?
+
+* Tests:
+
+  - Release some of them.
+
+  - The threads, userprog, vm test source files could use
+    factorization and cleanup along the lines of fslib in the filesys
+    tests.
+
+  - The p1-4.c testcase needs significant tuning.  Currently it takes
+    too long (especially when SHOW_PROGRESS is turned on) and doesn't
+    show significant improvement.
+
+* Code:
+
+  - Rewrite quick_sort() to use heap sort, for O(1) stack usage.
+
+  - Rewrite list_sort() to use merge sort, for O(1) heap usage.