From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261509AbVFKBiR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:38:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261510AbVFKBiR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:38:17 -0400 Received: from mf00.sitadelle.com ([212.94.174.79]:44153 "EHLO smtp.cegetel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261509AbVFKBiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:38:11 -0400 Message-ID: <42AA407C.2070104@lifl.fr> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:38:04 +0200 From: Eric Piel Organization: LIFL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-3mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, ja, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@us.ibm.com 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 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> In-Reply-To: <20050611005934.GM1300@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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