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sched/Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix incorrect example

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I feel that the example given in the document to show the possibility
of task starvation of configurable period is wrong.

The example says group A and B both have 50% bandwidth, and a while (1)
loop in A will run for the full period of B and can starve B's tasks.

So I think the runtime of group A should be 50000us, then the period and
runtime of group B should be 50000us and 25000us.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: iamyooon@gmail.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lizefan@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485069755-44287-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Zhou Chengming 2017-01-22 15:22:35 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
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@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ as its prone to starvation without deadline scheduling.
Consider two sibling groups A and B; both have 50% bandwidth, but A's
period is twice the length of B's.
* group A: period=100000us, runtime=10000us
- this runs for 0.01s once every 0.1s
* group A: period=100000us, runtime=50000us
- this runs for 0.05s once every 0.1s
* group B: period= 50000us, runtime=10000us
- this runs for 0.01s twice every 0.1s (or once every 0.05 sec).
* group B: period= 50000us, runtime=25000us
- this runs for 0.025s twice every 0.1s (or once every 0.05 sec).
This means that currently a while (1) loop in A will run for the full period of
B and can starve B's tasks (assuming they are of lower priority) for a whole