Re: [RFC 4/4] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: add some references

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 05:44:50 EST


On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:39:08AM +0200, Henrik Austad wrote:
> > + CPUs, with the first M - 1 tasks having a small worst case execution time
> > + WCET_i=e and period equal to relative deadline P_i=D_i=P-1. The last task
>
> Normally, 'e' is used to denote an _arbitrarily_ small value, and I suspect
> that this is indeed the case here as well (you're going to describe
> Dhall's effect, right?). Perhaps make that point explicit?
>
> T_i = {P_i, e, P_i}

We're talking about \epsilon here, right? Is it customary to use a
regular 'e' in CS literature for that?

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