New Feature: Arbitrary deadlines.

Added support for arbitrary deadlines.

Constraint: Relative deadline must be >= exec cost.

Use: Set relative deadline in rt_task::rdeadline. Set value to 0
     to default to implicit deadlines.

Limitations: PFAIR not supported by this patch. PFAIR updated to
     reject tasks that do not have implicit deadlines.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/litmus/rt_param.h b/include/litmus/rt_param.h
index d6d799174160..0ddd8c134533 100644
--- a/include/litmus/rt_param.h
+++ b/include/litmus/rt_param.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ typedef enum {
 struct rt_task {
         lt_t            exec_cost;
         lt_t            period;
+        lt_t            rdeadline;
         lt_t            phase;
         unsigned int    cpu;
         task_class_t    cls;