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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-18 11:23:32 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-18 11:23:32 -0500
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Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix comment for sched_info_depart sched/Documentation: Update sched-design-CFS.txt documentation sched/debug: Take PID namespace into account sched/fair: Fix small race where child->se.parent,cfs_rq might point to invalid ones
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
index d529e02d928d..f14f49304222 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
@@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ rq->cfs.load value, which is the sum of the weights of the tasks queued on the
runqueue.
CFS maintains a time-ordered rbtree, where all runnable tasks are sorted by the
-p->se.vruntime key (there is a subtraction using rq->cfs.min_vruntime to
-account for possible wraparounds). CFS picks the "leftmost" task from this
-tree and sticks to it.
+p->se.vruntime key. CFS picks the "leftmost" task from this tree and sticks to it.
As the system progresses forwards, the executed tasks are put into the tree
more and more to the right --- slowly but surely giving a chance for every task
to become the "leftmost task" and thus get on the CPU within a deterministic