From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261388AbVFJXGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:06:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261404AbVFJXFf (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:05:35 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:59053 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261394AbVFJXEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:04:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:04:33 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Eric Piel Cc: Chris Friesen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bhuey@lnxw.com, andrea@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, karim@opersys.com, mingo@elte.hu, pmarques@grupopie.com, bruce@andrew.cmu.edu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@muc.de, sdietrich@mvista.com, dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread Message-ID: <20050610230433.GI1300@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20050608022646.GA3158@us.ibm.com> <42A73D15.6080201@nortel.com> <20050608192853.GE1295@us.ibm.com> <42AA133D.1050102@lifl.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AA133D.1050102@lifl.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:25:01AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote: > I've read the whole summary and really appreciated it. It's clear, > precise and objective. Glad you like it! > Just a small change to "1 - QoS": > > >b. For each service: > > > > i. Probability of missing a deadline due to software, > > ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 1 corresponding > > to the hardest possible hard realtime. > > I think it should be (by reference to how you define probability at the > beginning of the section): > Probability of not missing any deadline due to software Good catch! How about the following? i. Probability of meeting a deadline due to software, ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 1 corresponding to the hardest possible hard realtime. Changing "missing" in the original to "meeting". Thanx, Paul > Thanks again for writing this summary, > Eric >