On 15/11/10 19:37, James H. Anderson wrote:
[...]
quoted text
> If you're talking about our most recent "stochastic" paper, it is about
> supporting
> soft real-time task systems on a multiprocessor where resource
> reservations are
> used. The main result of the paper is that if you provision the
> reservation for a
> task slightly higher than it's average-case execution time
[...]
BTW, I think we are aligned on this.

I was a little bit surprised when Peter mentioned allocating a runtime 
equal to the average execution time (because of the meta-stability 
considerations that Tommaso also mentioned), but I fully agree that if 
the allocated runtime is higher than the average execution time then the 
queue is stable and it's possible to find a bound for the expected 
tardiness (or even its probability distribution... This is similar to my 
"probabilistic deadlines").


			Luca
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