linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/9] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: relationship between tasks' deadlines and scheduling deadlines

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Message-Id: <1431954032-16473-9-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 15:00:31 +0200
From:	Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tn.it>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	henrik@...tad.us, juri.lelli@...il.com, raistlin@...ux.it,
	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tn.it>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: relationship between tasks' deadlines and scheduling deadlines

Clarify what is the relationship between tasks' parameters and scheduling
parameters, explaining how to set the scheduling parameters so that all the
absolute deadlines of a task are respected.

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tn.it>
---
 Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
index bd9ce00..ead13bcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
@@ -249,9 +249,17 @@ CONTENTS
  the total utilization is smaller or equal than M then the response times of
  the tasks are limited.
 
- SCHED_DEADLINE can be used to schedule real-time tasks guaranteeing that
- the jobs' deadlines of a task are respected. In order to do this, a task
- must be scheduled by setting:
+ Finally, it is important to understand the relationship between the
+ SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling parameters described in Section 2 (runtime,
+ deadline and period) and the real-time task parameters (WCET, D, P)
+ described in this section. Note that the tasks' temporal constraints are
+ represented by its absolute deadlines d_j = r_j + D described above, while
+ SCHED_DEADLINE schedules the tasks according to scheduling deadlines (see
+ Section 2).
+ If an admission test is used to guarantee that the scheduling deadlines
+ are respected, then SCHED_DEADLINE can be used to schedule real-time tasks
+ guaranteeing that all the jobs' deadlines of a task are respected.
+ In order to do this, a task must be scheduled by setting:
 
   - runtime >= WCET
   - deadline = D
-- 
1.7.9.5

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