linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Add sched

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Message-ID: <20140121095559.67b86d9c@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:55:59 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Henrik Austad <henrik@...tad.us>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:46:06 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > activates - released?
> > 
> > Since real-time papers from different rt-campus around the academia insist 
> > on using *slightly* different terminology, perhaps add a short dictionary 
> > for some of the more common terms?
> 
> Oh gawd, they really don't conform with their definitions? I'd not
> noticed that.
> 
> > D: relative deadline, typically N ms after release
> 
> You failed to define release :-) Its the 'wakeup' event, right? Where
> the activation would be the moment we actually schedule the
> job/instance?

It took me about 20 seconds to figure out what a "release" was too. ;-)

-- Steve
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