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Hello,
I am currently exploring the possibilities on how to solve this task: I need to create a scheduler which would be able to schedule a task or an action for a long period (hours, days) e.g. "task must be started after 10 days from now", hence my concern is the timing implementation.
If I decided to use RTX, is there any provided OS functionality I could leverage? I reckon RTX os_tmr_create and os_dly_wait are not meant for this.
Thank you!
G.
Thank you guys!
Hm, also there's another idea - to use RTC. Basically the principle would be to store deadlines & functions in an array and then recheck the whole list every second and execute any function which is deadline >= clock.
Will spend some time on evaluation.
Thanks again!
Well, the RTC or a timer is still just a variant of a "ticker". You still need to write code that compares the passing time with a (possibly sorted) list of actions and see when it is time to handle them.
Just that a RTC is normally serviced by an ISR - do you want the ISR to scan that list? It is normally better to have a task do it, too keep a minimum of time spent in interrupt handlers.