Re: periods and deadlines in SCHED_DEADLINE

[Harald Gustafsson]

> Right, so I would actually expect RT job release to be triggered by
> external events (say interrupts) more than on their own. And when its an
> external event I don't really see the use of this new syscall.

I agree that the common usage would be to wake up by an external
event, rather than sleeping for a specified time period that is longer
than the set period. I would assume that the period would be changed
to match some generic operational unit of the task like a frame rate
or packet rate, etc.
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