On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 09:14 +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
+/*
+ * Pure Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling does not deal with the
+ * possibility of a entity lasting more than what it declared, and thus
+ * exhausting its runtime.
+ *
+ * Here we are interested in making runtime overrun possible, but we do
+ * not want a entity which is misbehaving to affect the scheduling of all
+ * other entities.
+ * Therefore, a budgeting strategy called Constant Bandwidth Server (CBS)
+ * is used, in order to confine each entity within its own bandwidth.
+ *
+ * This function deals exactly with that, and ensures that when the runtime
+ * of a entity is replenished, its deadline is also postponed. That ensures
+ * the overrunning entity can't interfere with other entity in the system and
+ * can't make them miss their deadlines. Reasons why this kind of overruns
+ * could happen are, typically, a entity voluntarily trying to overcume its
s/overcume/overcome/
-- Steve
+ * runtime, or it just underestimated it during sched_setscheduler_ex().
+ */
+static void replenish_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+