Re: [RFC, PATCH] kernel/rcu: add kfree_rcu

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Jan 06 2009 - 17:36:16 EST


On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:40:23PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:48:11AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > In any case, I do apologize -- since I didn't see anything from you I
> > > incorrectly assumed that you had given up on this patch. Please accept
> > > my apologies!
> >
> > It's my fault.
> >
> > I'm a very low-yield developer.
>
> Well, I am certainly not the highest-yield developer around, and I have
> probably put in at least 30,000 hours of programming over the past 35
> years, and probably half of those between 1981 and 1985. Of course,
> a fair fraction of those hours were in languages and environments that
> are pretty much irrelevant these days. Nevertheless, my guess is that
> you need to invest about 10,000 hours to really master programming, which
> works out to about five years at 40 hours per week of doing nothing but
> designing, coding, and debugging.
>
> So please don't give up!

Two more things:

1. I believe that reviewing code counts towards the 10,000 hours.
Just in case you were curious. ;-)

2. To help prevent more collisions, I have posted a rough RCU
to-do list at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/rcutodo.html.

Thanx, Paul
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