Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:49:00 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation.
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> +/*
> + * Yield task semantic for -deadline tasks is:
> + *
> + *   get off from the CPU until our next instance, with
> + *   a new runtime.
> + */

Could you amend that comment with a reason for why this is so? I have
vague recollections of a discussion on this subject but can't recall. It
seems like a useful thing to have.
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