On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:44:26 Nick Krause wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Please get yourself a NUMA system and test this out. > > Unfortunately I don't have money for an extra machine as of now as I > am a student If you can't get an extra machine then you probably can't contribute to developing filesystems, and your ability to do any sort of kernel development will be greatly limited. It's probably best that you choose another area of software development until you get more hardware (and skill). > so if x86 is NUMA I can test otherwise I can't. If you had even read the NUMA Wikipedia page then you would already know the answer to this implied question. But really programming computers isn't something that you are good at. It's not something that you will become good at if you attempt tasks that are way above your skill level. I think that the best strategy for you is to find a mailing list for Linux beginners, when your skills get to the level that you answer more questions than you ask (and people appreciate your answers) then you can move on to easy programming tasks. Once you master the easy programming tasks you can move on to more difficult tasks. I suggest that you develop a realistic plan. Plan to start kernel programming in 2024 and have a series of goals on that path over the next 10 years. Make your 2015 goal be answering lots of questions on a Linux beginners mailing list, that's a goal you can achieve in a year. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
