Nam Cao [off-list ref] writes:

Gabriele Monaco [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Add the deadline monitors collection to validate the deadline scheduler,
both for deadline tasks and servers.

The currently implemented monitors are:
* throttle:
    validate dl entities are throttled when they use up their runtime
* nomiss:
    validate dl entities run to completion before their deadiline

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>

There are some helper functions that I am a bit uncomfortable with
(e.g. pi_of, is_dl_boosted, dl_is_implicit, ...) because they are
relying on implementation details of deadline scheduler which can be
changed. So ideally this patch should have an Ack from the scheduler people.

Think about this again, perhaps we should move all these helpers to
include/linux/sched/deadline.h instead? The scheduler people must be
aware of these functions, and maintain them. I don't want a situation
where the scheduler people make changes, and something else (which they
do not know exist) breaks.

Ideally, non-scheduler code should not look at private fields of
scheduler's structs.

Nam