Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935285AbbDIKLl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:11:41 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:53671 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934467AbbDIKLg (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:11:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 12:11:25 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Luca Abeni Cc: Henrik Austad , 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 Message-ID: <20150409101125.GS5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> 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> <55264FA4.5090805@unitn.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55264FA4.5090805@unitn.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 28 On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:08:36PM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote: > 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 I'm fine either way, its just my math/physics brain piping up. -- 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/