Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 09:57:00 EST


On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:46:06 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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