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FreeRTOS Task Notifications: A Lightweight Method for Waking Threads
I was recently implementing a FreeRTOS-based system and needed a simple way to wake my thread from an ISR. I was poking around the FreeRTOS API manual looking at semaphores when I discovered a new feature: task notifications. FreeRTOS claims that waking up a task using the new notification system is ~45% faster and uses …