Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:00:08 -0700
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On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 16:47 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > > (1)	time = sum_{t}^{T}(time_{t})
> > > (2)	weight_sum = sum_{t}^{T}(weight_{t})
> > 
> > I read your description, but I was distracted by this latex style
> > notation .. Could you walk through in english what these two equation
> > are doing ..
> 
> T is the number of tasks, so the first is the sum of the time every task 
> gets over a period of time and the second is the sum of all weights of 
> each task.

I think I'm more puzzled now than I was before, (scratches head for
minutes) ..

I see .. It's a summation symbol .. 

For instance if there are three tasks in the system. Call them A,B, and
C.

then 

time equals "time of A" + "time of B" + "time of C"

Right? 

Daniel

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