linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: deadline: Fix confusing comments about selection of top pi-waiter

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Message-ID: <b63986f6-f491-879a-0898-b9fa29a3b9f5@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:06:07 +0100
From:   Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: deadline: Fix confusing comments about selection
 of top pi-waiter

On 02/23/2017 05:09 AM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> This comment in the code is incomplete, and I believe it begs a definition of
> dl_boosted to make sense of the condition that follows. Rewrite the comment and
> also rearrange the condition that follows to reflect the first condition "we
> have a top pi-waiter which is a SCHED_DEADLINE task" in that order. Also fix a
> typo that follows.
> 
> Cc: Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>

-- Daniel