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@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ CONTENTS
* the new scheduling related syscalls that manipulate it, i.e.,
sched_setattr() and sched_getattr() are implemented.
+ For debugging purposes, the leftover runtime and absolute deadline of a
+ SCHED_DEADLINE task can be retrieved through /proc/<pid>/sched (entries
+ dl.runtime and dl.deadline, both values in ns). A programmatic way to
+ retrieve these values from production code is under discussion.
+
4.3 Default behavior
---------------------
@@ -476,6 +481,7 @@ CONTENTS
Still missing:
+ - programmatic way to retrieve current runtime and absolute deadline
- refinements to deadline inheritance, especially regarding the possibility
of retaining bandwidth isolation among non-interacting tasks. This is
being studied from both theoretical and practical points of view, and