[LITMUS^RT] Hash-Based Tie-Breaking for EDF

[Björn Brandenburg]

On Aug 27, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Jeremy Erickson wrote:

> Bjoern has been a strong advocate of looking at normalized lateness/tardiness, so I'm interested to hear his input.
> 
> It does seem to me that a task with a short relative deadline will suffer a lot from tardiness qualitatively even if it has a long period.

I agree. The relative deadline defines "how soon" a job should finish, thus "how late" a job is should be understood in relation to "how soon" it was expected to complete.

- Björn