Re: [PATCH 03/14] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 07:24:34 EST


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> +/*
> + * We are being explicitly informed that a new instance is starting,
> + * and this means that:
> + * - the absolute deadline of the entity has to be placed at
> + * current time + relative deadline;
> + * - the runtime of the entity has to be set to the maximum value.
> + *
> + * The capability of specifying such event is useful whenever a -deadline
> + * entity wants to (try to!) synchronize its behaviour with the scheduler's
> + * one, and to (try to!) reconcile itself with its own scheduling
> + * parameters.
> + */
> +static inline void setup_new_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
> +{
> + struct dl_rq *dl_rq = dl_rq_of_se(dl_se);
> + struct rq *rq = rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq);
> +
> + WARN_ON(!dl_se->dl_new || dl_se->dl_throttled);
> +
> + /*
> + * We use the regular wall clock time to set deadlines in the
> + * future; in fact, we must consider execution overheads (time
> + * spent on hardirq context, etc.).
> + */
> + dl_se->deadline = rq->clock + dl_se->dl_deadline;
> + dl_se->runtime = dl_se->dl_runtime;
> + dl_se->dl_new = 0;
> +}

78becc270975 sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock

wants you to use rq_clock(rq) there I think.


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