There are multiple ways to deal with deadline misses for soft systems. Only some of them actually deliver the correct data, just late. A lot of systems will abo

There are multiple ways to deal with deadline misses for soft systems. Only some of them actually deliver the correct data, just late. A lot of systems will abort the execution and move on with zeros/last computed data instead, or drop the data entirely. A modern network AQM system like CAKE uses both delayed scheduling and intelligent dropping. Agreed though, "just" is hiding quite a deep rabbit hole.