Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965145AbbDIKIt (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:08:49 -0400 Received: from mail0.unitn.it ([193.205.194.10]:51475 "EHLO mail0.unitn.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933931AbbDIKIk (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:08:40 -0400 Message-ID: <55264FA4.5090805@unitn.it> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:08:36 +0200 From: Luca Abeni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra , Henrik Austad CC: Luca Abeni , juri.lelli@gmail.com, raistlin@linux.it, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: add some references References: <1428494380-1917-1-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it> <1428494380-1917-5-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it> <20150409093908.GB10954@sisyphus.home.austad.us> <20150409094427.GR5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <20150409094427.GR5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 28 On 04/09/2015 11:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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? Right. I used "e" to make the thing more readable in a simple text document. > Is it customary to use a regular 'e' in CS literature for that? I do not know... I just wanted to use one single character, and to avoid the "\" (which only makes sense to people using latex :) But if you want I can use "epsilon" or "\epsilon"... Let me know Thanks, Luca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/