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

[Steven Rostedt]

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