Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: fix terminology and improve clarity

Luca Abeni
2014-09-03T08:27:08Z

On 09/03/2014 09:45 AM, Henrik Austad wrote:
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>> Summing up, the CBS[2,3] algorithms assigns scheduling deadlines to
>>>> tasks so
>>>> that each task runs for at most its runtime every period, avoiding any
>>>> interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation), while the
>>>> EDF[1]
>>>> - algorithm selects the task with the smallest scheduling deadline as
>>>> the one
>>>> + algorithm selects the task with the closest scheduling deadline as the
>>>> one
>>>> to be executed first. Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not
>>>>
>>>
>>> s/first/next/
>>>
>>> Also, next sentence does not make much sense, I would drop the also;
>>>
>>> "Thanks to this feature, tasks that do not strictly comply with the ..."
>>>
>> I agree with these changes, but they are in text that is not changed by my
>> patch, right?
>> What should I do? Add these changes to the patch, or send an additional
>> incremental
>> patch with these changes?
>>
>
> Patch is about clarity, right? I'd just add it to this patch.
Ok; I'll send an updated patch to Juri.

Thanks,
Luca