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SubjectRe: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread
11.06.2005 02:59, Paul E. McKenney wrote/a écrit:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:23:34AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote:
>>What about using the way you wrote it at the beginning of the section:
>>"Probability of missing a deadline only because of a hardware failure"
>
>
> Good point, I may just need to invert the whole thing, so that it
> becomes something like:
>
> i. Probability of missing a deadline due to software,
> ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 0 corresponding
> to the hardest possible hard realtime.
>
> But then the "p^n" becomes "1-(1-p)^n". Bleah.
Yes, it seems language doesn't fit well with mathematics ;-)

>
> OK, how about the following?
>
> i. Probability of meeting a deadline in absence of hardware
> failure, ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 1
> corresponding to the hardest possible hard realtime.
>
Sounds good!

Eric
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