Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

Appendix HCreditsH.1 AuthorsH.2 Reviewers• Alan Stern (Section 12.2).• Andi Kleen (Section D.2).• Andrew Morton (Section D.2).• Andy Whitcroft (Section 8.3.1, Section 8.3.3,Section D.2, Section D.4)).• Artem Bityutskiy (Section 12.2, Appendix C).• Dave Keck (Chapter C).• David S. Horner (Section E.7, Section D.2).• Gautham Shenoy (Section 8.3.1, Section 8.3.3),Section D.2).• Ingo Molnar (Section D.2).• “jarkao2”, AKA LWN guest #41960 (Section8.3.3).• Jonathan Walpole (Section 8.3.3).• Josh Triplett (Section E, Section D.4, SectionD.1, Section D.2).• Lai Jiangshan (Section D.2).• Manfred Spraul (Section D.2).• Mathieu Desnoyers (Section D.2).• Michael Factor (Section 15.1).• Mike Fulton (Section 8.3.1).• Nivedita Singhvi (Section D.4).• Oleg Nesterov (Section D.4).• Peter Zijlstra (Section 8.3.2, Section D.2).• Richard Woodruff (Section C).• Robert Bauer (Section D.4).• Steve Rostedt (Section D.4).• Suparna Bhattacharya (Section E).• Vara Prasad (Section E.7).Reviewers whose feedback took the extremely welcomeform of a patch are credited in the git logs.H.3 Machine OwnersA great debt of thanks goes to Martin Bligh, whooriginated the Advanced Build and Test (ABAT)system at IBM’s Linux Technology Center, as wellas to Andy Whitcroft, Dustin Kirkland, and manyothers who extended this system.Manythanksgoalsotoagreatnumberofmachineowners:• Andrew Theurer (Section E.7, Section D.2).• Andy Whitcroft (Section D.2).• Anton Blanchard (Section D.2).• Chris McDermott (Section 2.2.2).• Darrick Wong (Section D.2).• David ”Shaggy” Kleikamp (Section D.2).• Jon M. Tollefson (Section D.2).• Jose R. Santos (Section D.2).• Nathan Lynch (Section D.2).• Nishanth Aravamudan (Section D.2).• Tim Pepper (Section D.2).