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The scalability of Linus Torvalds was a
recurring theme during Linux’s early years; these days maintainer struggles
are a recognized problem within open-source
communities in general. It is thus not surprising that Sean Christopherson
gave a talk at Open Source Summit Europe (and KVM Forum) with the title
“Scaling KVM and its community”. The talk mostly focused on KVM for the
x86 architecture—the largest and most mature KVM architecture—which
Christopherson
co-maintains. But it was not a technical talk: most of the content can be
applied to other KVM architectures, or even other Linux subsystems, so that
they can avoid making the same kinds of mistakes.