[LITMUS^RT] Litmus-RT: `release_ts` bug (and fix?)

[Björn Brandenburg]

> On 20. Apr 2018, at 23:41, Julian Druzdzel <j.druzdzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to implement a lottery scheduler with Litmus-RT (I know, I know, RT means real-time, and lottery isn't RT-savvy...) but was running into an unexpected error with little to no documentation or fixes that also affects the DEMO scheduler.
> 
> When the set schedule is either my LOTTERY scheduler or the DEMO scheduler, attempting to test batch release of many jobs (queuing with `rt_launch -w <...> &`) with `release_ts` would error out, stating "wait_for_ts_release(): function not implemented". The other example schedulers do not have this error to my knowledge.
> 
> I do not understand why, but I fixed this error with the DEMO scheduler by adding a line present in all other example scheduler plugin structs:
> ".complete_job = complete_job,". 
> 
> This, however, does not fix my scheduler, but was hoping for some insight into why this fixes the DEMO scheduler's batch RT job releasing so that I may get a hint as to how to fix batch job releasing for my scheduler.

Dear Julian,

I think Nathan (CC’ed), who updated the tutorial for the latest release, already figured this one out in the past.

Nathan, could you please take a look? Do we still need to update the tutorial materials?

Thanks,
Björn

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