From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] clockpro-clockpro.patch From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <20051231002417.GA4913@dmt.cnet> References: <20051230223952.765.21096.sendpatchset@twins.localnet> <20051230224312.765.58575.sendpatchset@twins.localnet> <20051231002417.GA4913@dmt.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:29:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1136028546.17853.69.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Wu Fengguang , Nick Piggin , Marijn Meijles , Rik van Riel List-ID: Forgot one in the previous mail. On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:24 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Please make it easier for others to understand why the hands > swap, and when, and why. Its not the hands that swap, its the lists. The hands will lap each other, like the minute hand will lap the hour hand every ~65 minutes. Let me try some ascii art. ==== ^---<>---v ==== '=' a page '^---<' hand cold '>---v' hand hot now let hand cold move 4 pages: ^---<>---v ======== ie. hand hot and hand cold have the same position. now if we want to move hand cold one more position this happens: ======= ^---<>---v = see the swap? -- Peter Zijlstra -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org