[LITMUS^RT] Question about the RT_F_XXX flags

[Björn Brandenburg]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Glenn Elliott wrote:

>> Exactly, RT_F_RUNNING is a remnant  from the very first version of Litmus (2006 era). The only use is to signal to the scheduling function that a job completion has occurred. It's not very elegant and terribly misnamed (it really has nothing to do with actual suspensions/wakeups), but I guess nobody ever got around to renaming it…
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> We could just replace it with a single bit field in the rt_param struct.  There are already many "int myvar:1" fields in rt_param.

Indeed. Patches welcome (after RTAS).

- Björn