[PATCH] c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst: Correct logically inverted statement

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Tue Jan 10 22:35:54 UTC 2023


Also corrected a spot of formatting.

Closes #4781.
---
 c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst b/c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst
index c81af4e..af54591 100644
--- a/c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst
+++ b/c-user/rate-monotonic/background.rst
@@ -222,8 +222,9 @@ assumptions:
 - The execution time for each task without preemption or interruption is
   constant and does not vary.
 
-- Any non-periodic tasks in the system are special.  These tasks displace
-  periodic tasks while executing and do not have hard, critical deadlines.
+- Any non-periodic tasks in the system are special.  These tasks should not
+  displace periodic tasks while executing and do not have hard, critical
+  deadlines.
 
 Once the basic schedulability analysis is understood, some of the above
 assumptions can be relaxed and the side-effects accounted for.
@@ -290,9 +291,9 @@ by the Processor Utilization Rule, they can still be guaranteed to meet all
 their deadlines by application of the First Deadline Rule.  This rule can be
 stated as follows:
 
-For a given set of independent periodic tasks, if each task meets its first
-deadline when all tasks are started at the same time, then the deadlines will
-always be met for any combination of start times.
+    For a given set of independent periodic tasks, if each task meets its first
+    deadline when all tasks are started at the same time, then the
+    deadlines will always be met for any combination of start times.
 
 A key point with this rule is that ALL periodic tasks are assumed to start at
 the exact same instant in time.  Although this assumption may seem to be
-- 
1.8.3.1



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