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Closed-loop control systems are dynamic systems subject to perturbations. One of the main concerns of the control is to design controllers to correct or limit the deviation that transient perturbations cause in the controlled system response. The smaller and shorter the deviation, the better the achieved performance. However, such controllers have been traditionally implemented using fixed timing constraints (periods and deadlines). This precludes controllers to execute dynamically, accordingly to the system dynamics, which may lead to sub-optimal implementations: although higher execution rates may be preferable when reacting to perturbations in order to minimize the response deviations, they imply wastage of resources when the system is in equilibrium.In this paper we argue and demonstrate that the responsibility of maximizing the performance of closed-loop systems relies on both the controller designer and the scheduler. We show that the dynamic optimization of the quality of the controlled system response calls for (a) flexible control task timing constraints that deliver effective control performance; flexible constraints allow us to achieve faster reaction by adaptively choosing the controller sampling rate and completion time upon transient perturbations, (b) a Quality-of-Control (QoC) metric; it associates with each control task timing a quantitative value expressing control performance (in terms of the closed-loop system error), and (c) new scheduling approaches; their goal is to quickly react to perturbations by dynamically scheduling tasks based on the chosen control task execution parameters to maximize the QoC. This combination offers the possibility of taking scheduling decisions based on the control information for each control task invocation, rather than using fixed timing constraints with constant periods and deadlines.