From 712e5e34aef449ab680b35c0d9016f59b0a4494c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dario Faggioli Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:20:15 +0100 Subject: sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation Add in Documentation/scheduler/ some hints about the design choices, the usage and the future possible developments of the sched_dl scheduling class and of the SCHED_DEADLINE policy. Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli [ Re-wrote sections 2 and 3. ] Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390821615-23247-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c index 0de248202879..0dd5e0971a07 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -351,7 +351,8 @@ static void replenish_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, * disrupting the schedulability of the system. Otherwise, we should * refill the runtime and set the deadline a period in the future, * because keeping the current (absolute) deadline of the task would - * result in breaking guarantees promised to other tasks. + * result in breaking guarantees promised to other tasks (refer to + * Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt for more informations). * * This function returns true if: * -- cgit v1.2.3