From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] kernel/rcu: add kfree_rcu
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:17:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106221755.GA19457@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105044023.GC8080@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 11:25 Manfred Spraul
2009-01-02 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-03 14:59 ` Manfred Spraul
2009-01-03 23:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-04 5:50 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-01-04 19:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 2:48 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-01-05 4:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06 22:17 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-01-05 7:15 ` Manfred Spraul
2009-01-04 5:39 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-01-04 7:07 ` Manfred Spraul
2009-01-04 8:30 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-01-04 12:22 ` Manfred Spraul
2009-01-04 20:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-12 17:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
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