From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261512AbVFKBrh (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261519AbVFKBrg (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:47:36 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:9204 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261512AbVFKBre (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:47:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:47:51 -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: <20050611014751.GQ1300@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> <20050610230433.GI1300@us.ibm.com> <42AA20F6.9030606@lifl.fr> <20050611005934.GM1300@us.ibm.com> <42AA407C.2070104@lifl.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42AA407C.2070104@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 03:38:04AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote: > 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 ;-) Hey, it could be worse. I am just glad that it is not normally necessary to do integration by parts, trig substitutions, or Laplace transforms on English sentences!!! ;-) > >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! OK, I made the change! Thank you for catching this one, good eyes! Thanx, Paul