linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH] kernel/rcu: add kfree

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Message-ID: <20090106221755.GA19457@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:17:55 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] kernel/rcu: add kfree_rcu

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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