From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:04:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: chrt: (man) add human-readable names for policies
X-Git-Tag: v2.37-rc1~449
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb4f1da4e040af3f5c8d1467e170894bc46ab324;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

chrt: (man) add human-readable names for policies

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/schedutils/chrt.1 b/schedutils/chrt.1
index 0d9a225c3f..d47a6d1e23 100644
--- a/schedutils/chrt.1
+++ b/schedutils/chrt.1
@@ -41,34 +41,29 @@ or runs \fIcommand\fR with the given attributes.
 .SH POLICIES
 .TP
 \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-other\fR
-Set scheduling policy to
-.BR SCHED_OTHER .
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_OTHER\fR (time-sharing scheduling).
 This is the default Linux scheduling policy.
 .TP
 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-fifo\fR
-Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_FIFO\fR.
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_FIFO\fR (first in-first out).
 .TP
 \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-rr\fR
-Set scheduling policy to
-.BR SCHED_RR .
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_RR\fR (round-robin scheduling).
 When no policy is defined, the
 .B SCHED_RR
 is used as the default.
 .TP
 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-batch\fR
-Set scheduling policy to
-.B SCHED_BATCH
-(Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.16).  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_BATCH\fR (scheduling batch processes).
+Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.16.  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
 .TP
 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-idle\fR
-Set scheduling policy to
-.B SCHED_IDLE
-(Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.23).  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_IDLE\fR (scheduling very low priority jobs).
+Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.23.  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
 .TP
 .BR \-d ,\  \-\-deadline
-Set scheduling policy to
-.B SCHED_DEADLINE
-(Linux-specific, supported since 3.14).  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
+Set scheduling policy to \fBSCHED_DEADLINE\fR (sporadic task model deadline scheduling).
+Linux-specific, supported since 3.14.  The priority argument has to be set to zero.
 See also \fB\-\-sched\-runtime\fR, \fB\-\-sched\-deadline\fR and
 \fB\-\-sched\-period\fR.  The relation between the options required by the kernel is
 runtime <= deadline <= period.