On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote: > + As seen, enforcing that the total utilisation is smaller than M does not > + guarantee that global EDF schedules the tasks without missing any deadline > + (in other words, global EDF is not an optimal scheduling algorithm). However, > + a total utilisation smaller than M is enough to guarantee that non real-time > + tasks are not starved and that the tardiness of real-time tasks has an upper > + bound[12] (as previously noticed). Different bounds on the maximum tardiness ^^^ noted? > + experienced by real-time tasks have been developed in various papers[13,14], > + but the theoretical result that is important for SCHED_DEADLINE is that if > + the total utilisation is smaller or equal than M then the response times of > + the tasks are limited. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html