Feature: Allow RTOS CPU yielding #8
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The biggest advantage of using a RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, …) is their ability to hide the complexity of asynchronous systems, but this often requires cooperation by the threads. This library makes extensive use of busy waiting when it is being used in blocking mode, which in the way it was implemented broke the cooperation principle. To solve this this patch introduces a function named `Mcb_RelinquishCPU` to `mcb_usr.h`. This function is executed on every iteration in the libraries busy waiting loops. When using an RTOS, the user can override it in order to execute their native thread yield / wait / … functions and allow the OS reschedule the task. On non RTOS systems this is of course a no-op. Signed-off-by: Elisabeth Friedrich <[email protected]>
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The biggest advantage of using a RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, …) is their ability to hide the complexity of asynchronous systems, but this often requires cooperation by the threads.
This library makes extensive use of busy waiting when it is being used in blocking mode, which in the way it was implemented broke the cooperation principle. To solve this this patch introduces a function named
Mcb_RelinquishCPUtomcb_usr.h.This function is executed on every iteration in the libraries busy waiting loops. When using an RTOS, the user can override it in order to execute their native thread yield / wait / … functions and allow the OS reschedule the task.
On non RTOS systems this is of course a no-op.