Cautionary Tales on Implementing the Software That People Want

Presented by

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  Paul McKenney
  @paulmckrcu
  http://www.rdrop.com/~paulmck

  Paul E. McKenney has been coding for more than four decades, more than half of that on parallel hardware. Paul is a software engineer at Meta Platforms. where he maintains the RCU implementation within the Linux kernel, where the variety of workloads present highly entertaining performance, scalability, real-time response, and energy-efficiency challenges. Prior to that, he did very similar work for IBM's Linux Technology Center, before which he worked on the DYNIX/ptx kernel at Sequent, and prior to that on packet-radio and Internet protocols (but long before it was polite to mention Internet at cocktail parties), system administration, business applications, and real-time systems. His hobbies include what passes for running at his age ("hiking") along with the usual house-wife-and-grown-kids habit.