tlafleur wrote on Tuesday, January 15, 2008:
Is there a function that one can call to determine the approximate % utilization of the target processor and application in FreeRTOS??
if not this would be a great debug tool to add in the future…
thanks…
woops_ wrote on Tuesday, January 15, 2008:
Not directly but there are possibilities.
Use an idle hook to toggle a pin continuously. Then you can see on a scope the amount of time the idle task is running.
Use a tick hook to see if the current task is the idle task and keep a count of the frequence.
Use an idle hook to perform some other form of measurement.
adarkar9 wrote on Wednesday, January 16, 2008:
If you are fortunate enough to have a spare DAC on board, you can send the current task number to the DAC on a context switch. Not only do you get % utilization, but you also get a very handy real time execution graph on your scope. Granted this increases the length of a context switch (by ten instructions for me), the visibility you gain into your system usually makes it worth the cost.
P.S. I modify the "tskTCB" structure so that "uxTCBNumber" is directly after "pxTopOfStack". That way my context switch code can easily grab the task number after reading the stack pointer.