Friday July 08, 2005

Solaris Internals: 2nd Edition!

It's no secret that we hope to get an updated Solaris Internals book out. Jim and I have had this AI on our desk for a while. The good news is that it's been making quite a bit of progress of late!

The idea is to update the existing book from Solaris 7 to Solaris 10, highly leveraging OpenSolaris, DTrace and mdb. There's a lot to add, given the onslaught of development: substantially revised virtual memory, a new file system interface, a new threads model, zones, ZFS, Least privilege, SMF and the list goes on. We scoped adding all of this, and we'd have a 2000+ page book when we're done.

What we've decided to do is break up the work into smaller deliverable chunks, and deliver it in parts. Yes, we're taking the Knuth approach: Solaris 10 Internals will have more than one volume. We're splitting some of the new material and most of the performance discussion out into the subsequent volume. We're enlisting a few helpers for the subsequent volume, to make it more of a community effort.

So that you can keep the pressure on us, I thought I'd share where we are with the current volume. Our target is to be done with this volume in the next couple of months.

Part	Chapter	Primary	Old pages	Target pages	Left
	Preface	JM	6	7	2
I – Intro	Introduction	Phil Harman/JM	36	40	10
Running Page Total
782
II – Tools	Introduction	JM	2	2	2
	Dtrace	Jon	0	30	5
	MDB	RMC	5	5	5
	Kstat	Boothby/RMC	0	15	0
III – Memory	VM Intro	RMC	6	6	0
	VM Monitoring	RMC	44	44	0
	Large pages	RMC	14	14	0
	Memory Arch	RMC	36	36	0
	Physical Mem Mngmnt	RMC	20	20	0
	HAT	Tariq	12	20	7
	Kernel Memory	RMC	48	48	0
IV – Platform	Sync Intro	JM	16	16	5
	Sync Impl	JM	16	16	4
	NUMA/CMT	RMC/Saxe/Chew	16	18	4
	Kernel Services	JM	37	38	20
	Kernel Modules & Linker	JM	0	20	20
V – Process Model	Process Model	JM	48	48	20
	Sched Classes & Disp	JM	65	50	40
	ProcFS	JM	22	22	6
	Signals	JM	18	20	10
	Resource Management	JM	8	20	12
	IPC	JM	48	48	10
VI – Files & File Systems	Files	RMC	40	40	4
	Intro	RMC	18	22	6
	FS Architecture	RMC	46	70	0
	UFS	Shawn	24	30	6
	NFS	Spencer/Sameer	0	30	0
	ZFS	RMC	20	0	20
Appendix A	ELF File Format	JM	12	12	12
Appendix B	Kernel Maps	RMC	12	12	0
				819	260

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