Remove the adjective "relative" associated to the period of a periodic task, since the period is an absolute value.
Rephrased the comment with the aim of making it even more clear. Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]> Cc: Luca Abeni <[email protected]> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c index f349f7e..902b2e0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -770,9 +770,9 @@ update_dl_revised_wakeup(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct rq *rq) } /* - * Regarding the deadline, a task with implicit deadline has a relative - * deadline == relative period. A task with constrained deadline has a - * relative deadline <= relative period. + * Regarding periodic real-time tasks, a constrained deadline task has the + * relative deadline <= period. An implicit deadline task is a particular case + * for which the relative deadline == period. * * We support constrained deadline tasks. However, there are some restrictions * applied only for tasks which do not have an implicit deadline. See -- 2.7.4
