Tickless FreeRTOS

[hassan789]

Hi ESP community,
Is there any plans to support tickless operation of freertos in the IDF?
Or any specific pointers I can follow to implement light-sleep or tickless in IDF 2.1?

Thanks

[kolban]

What does "Tickless FreeRTOS" mean?

[WiFive]

What does "Tickless FreeRTOS" mean?

http://www.freertos.org/low-power-tickless-rtos.html

[ESP_Sprite]

We'll probably take a look at tickless around the time we'll be implementing light sleep, which is scheduled before 3.0. You can try enabling it in the FreeRTOS config yourself, but I'm not sure if it plays nice with the changes we did to get multicore-support.

[hassan789]

I'll let the pros look at the tickless + dual core support

For my use case (and probably most folks) tickless support (even with 1 core) would allow me to make designs that would last for 6-12months

Keep up the amazing work ESP/IDF teams

[hassan789]

looks like this was merged! will test and provide feedback!