I'm surprised there's no mention of the classic Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy. Combine that with a recent book on the Linux kernel (either the O'Reilly one or I think there's one from Addison-Wesley) or the BSD red book (design and implementation of 4.4 bsd I think it's called) and I think you'd have good coverage of the topic.
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I'm surprised there's no mention of the classic Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy. Combine that with a recent book on the Linux kernel (either the O'Reilly one or I think there's one from Addison-Wesley) or the BSD red book (design and implementation of 4.4 bsd I think it's called) and I think you'd have good coverage of the topic.