Re: [PATCH 05/16] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE policy implementation.

[Tommaso Cucinotta]

Il 23/04/2012 22:45, Peter Zijlstra ha scritto:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 22:25 +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> > I cannot get the real difference between rq->clock and rq->task_clock.
> One runs at wall-time (rq->clock) the other excludes time in irq-context
> and steal-time (rq->clock_task).
>
> The idea is that ->clock_task gives the time as observed by schedulable
> tasks and excludes other muck.

so clock_task might be better to compute the consumed budget at task 
deschedule, but for setting deadlines one period ahead in the future 
guess the regular wall-time rq->clock is the one to be used?

Thx,

    T.

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