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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 09/22] sched: add period support for -deadline
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:17:34 +0100
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On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:34 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> Make it possible to specify a period (different or equal than
> deadline) for -deadline tasks.
> 
I would expect it to be:

runtime <= deadline <= period