Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread

[Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@lifl.fr>]

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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