linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/2] sched/deadline: Use deadline instead of period when calculating overflow

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:47:57 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...tannapisa.it>
Cc:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...up.it>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@...c.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] sched/deadline: Use deadline instead of period when
 calculating overflow

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:36:07 +0100
Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...tannapisa.it> wrote:

> On 15/02/2017 14:33, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> > [1] For the sake of completeness:
> > - dl_se->deadline = Absolute deadline
> > - dl_se->dl_deadline = Relative deadline  
> Daniel's note [1] reminds me that, would it be worth a rename of these, for the sake of clarity, e.g.:
> -) abs_deadline vs rel_deadline
> -) runtime_left vs runtime_tot
> or similar :-) ?

+1 as I seem to get confused by it too.

-- Steve