Operating Systems Papers
Here are some papers that I've found very useful to have around.
Of Special Interest
Guy Steele's talk at OOPSLA. (courtesy of Amer Diwan).
General Papers
Ritchie and Thompson's UNIX paper. History begins.
Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management
Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System
The Interaction of Architecture and Operating System Design
Threading/Synchronization
Fast Mutexing
SMT Architectures
Scheduling
Lottery Scheduling
Scheduler Activations
Memory
Machine Independent VM
64-bit paging
Multics VM
Filesystems
Fast File System
XFS1, XFS2
RAID
HP Auto-RAID
Design and Implementation of a Log Structured File System
4.4BSD VFS
Episode
Power Management
Dynamic Voltage Scaling
(architecture)
Efficent Voltage Scaling (arch)
Other
Kerberos