From 4d142211e3aa40f6714441359a937aec52657606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rpj <rpj>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:18:20 +0000
Subject: ''

---
 tests/stress1.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/stress1.c b/tests/stress1.c
index b8d1c77..68d2ed7 100644
--- a/tests/stress1.c
+++ b/tests/stress1.c
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ masterThread (void * arg)
        * We are attempting to send the signal close to when the slave
        * is due to timeout. We feel around by adding some [non-random] dither.
        *
-       * with dither added, sleep time range is 2*timeout peak-to-peak centred on timeout,
+       * dither is in the range 2*timeout peak-to-peak
+       * sleep time is the average of timeout plus dither.
        * e.g.
        * if timeout = 10 then dither = 20 and
        * sleep millisecs is: 5 <= ms <= 15
@@ -163,6 +164,8 @@ masterThread (void * arg)
        * The bias value attempts to apply some negative feedback to keep
        * the ratio of timeouts to signals taken close to 1:1.
        * bias changes more slowly than dither so as to average more.
+       *
+       * Finally, if abs(bias) exceeds timeout then timeout is incremented.
        */
       if (signalsSent % timeout == 0)
 	{
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