User talk:PaulMcKenney

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Potential conflict of interest
Based on your insertion of content citing PaulMcKenny (your user name):

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 * As one of the creators of RCU our guidelines state that you should refrain from editing the article directly. It is recommended that you post your suggestions on the article talk page, clearly identifying your affilition with the subject of the article, and let a third party editor determine if and how to incorporate your suggestions. Active  Banana    (bananaphone  14:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Response to suggestion of conflict of interest.
Hello, Active Banana, and thank you for your efforts on Wikipedia. You mentioned some COI concerns about my edits adding citations to the read-copy-update (RCU) page, and I hope that the following alleviates your concerns:


 * My user name (PaulMcKenney) is my real name (Paul E. McKenney). I am not contributing "on the sly".
 * I have been contributing to the RCU page since 2004, and this is the first time that a COI concern has been brought to my attention, which should indicate that I am doing a good job of handling any COI issues. Of course, if you are aware of any specific complaints, please do let me know.
 * I am indeed one of the inventors of RCU. I am also co-maintainer of the RCU implementation in the Linux kernel and a contributor to user-level RCU implementations that Mathieu Desnoyers maintains. If it would help, I would of course be happy to declare all of this on the RCU talk page.
 * I did not create the RCU page, though I am a significant long-term contributor (in terms of bytes, not number of updates). When I first encountered this page in 2004, it was fragmentary and misleading. I have updated and maintained it primarily out of self-defense: it is far better to improve the page than to deal with the consequences of its being incomplete or inaccurate.
 * I am not using Wikipedia to promote RCU. RCU stands on its own merits, evidenced by more than 3,000 uses of its API within the Linux kernel, as well as its use in DYNIX/ptx, K42, and elsewhere.
 * RCU is part of the concurrency curriculum at a number of universities, including U. of Toronto, U. of Kansas, U. of Rochester, UCLA, Yale, and MIT, to name but a few. RCU is therefore a legitimate topic in parallel programming.

PaulMcKenney (talk) 21:46, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Introduction to the article about RCU's
Hello Paul, I've just rewritten the introduction to Read-copy-update. I know you're the creator and the maintainer of this mechanism in the Linux kernel, therefore, if you have some spare time, I'd appreciate to know what you think about it. Kind regards, Fabio Maria De Francesco (talk) 05:34, 26 June 2020 (UTC)