lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Jun]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    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
    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-06-11 03:41    [W:5.292 / U:0.544 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site