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From: "Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Private or public task ?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:17:55 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-02-09T10:17:55-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b28678e3-d25e-437c-bb63-856c90c90e9d@q16g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: narrkh.9g.ln@hunter.axlog.fr

On 9 fév, 15:26, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> protected procedures are bounded, because if you know the processing
> time and the maximum number of tasks waiting, you know the WCET of the
> procedure. Entries are unbounded, because they depend on a guard whose
> condition can be anything.
>
> The "potentially blocking" phrase should be understood as really meaning
> unbounded.  This all boils down to: "an operation with a bounded
> execution time is not allowed to call an operation with an unbounded
> execution time".
>
> Makes more sense?
Yes, more sense. Bounded/Unbounded execution-time is better
expressive.


Side note. For peoples who like me didn't knew what is WCET : its
"Worst Case Execution Time" (dixit Wikipedia).



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-05 20:54 Private or public task ? Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-05 20:56 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-05 21:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-02-05 21:53   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08  9:55     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-08 10:02     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-08 17:28     ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-02-09  8:43       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-09 12:07       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 14:26         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-09 18:17           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) [this message]
2010-02-10  8:17           ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-02-10  8:29             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10  8:40               ` Martin
2010-02-10 11:44                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-10 12:51                   ` Martin
2010-02-10 16:17                 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 11:38             ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-13 11:09           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-09 15:20         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-09 18:26           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 14:44       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-09 23:38   ` mkasun
2010-02-09 23:51     ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10  0:01     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-02-05 21:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-05 22:09   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-05 22:57     ` sjw
2010-02-06  2:20   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-06  2:23     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-06  3:29     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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