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Maximum Linux Kernel Performance (KernelTrap)

Posted Sep 23, 2003 0:38 UTC (Tue) by stumbles (guest, #8796)
Parent article: Maximum Linux Kernel Performance (KernelTrap)

That's some mighty high praise for Andrew Morton.

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Maximum Linux Kernel Performance (KernelTrap)

Posted Sep 23, 2003 12:17 UTC (Tue) by brugolsky (guest, #28) [Link]

All of it well-deserved. He has midwifed the 2.6 kernel through its entire gestation and done much dirty work and heavy-lifting along the way (like splitting, fixing, and merging the rmap VM patches, or fixing ext3 scalability). He is careful and methodical, taking pains to create regression tests and insert assertions into code to make sure that obscure problems don't reappear (as has occasionally happened in the past). Perhaps most importantly, he has good people skills -- a lot of code got merged because Andrew provided lots of useful feedback and assistance to folks who showed up on linux-kernel bearing gifts in need of some fixing and tweaking.