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esp32/mpconfigport: MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK fails to yield

openby tveopened 2020-05-01updated 2020-05-03
port-esp32

On the STM32 MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK contains either a pyb_thread_yield() or a __WFI() causing the flow of execution to pause for a tad and thereby give other threads a chance at the cpu or provide an opportunity to save power. On the esp32 MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK does not contain any form of yield (https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/ports/esp32/mpconfigport.h#L245-L252). Instead, mp_hal_delay_ms both calls MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK and yields (https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/ports/esp32/mphalport.c#L164-L165) and mp_hal_stdin_rx_chr also calls both. However, in modselect poll_poll_internal just has the MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK macro (https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/extmod/moduselect.c#L256) with the result that on the esp32 it busy-waits, hogging the cpu, while on stm32 it yields as expected.

It's pretty easy to fix the esp32 situation and that's actually something included in #5473 (https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/5473/files#diff-b9499fc8ad5b9793822626f6befdb1b6 and https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/5473/files#diff-4c3d68ff23336da03f336fbc26571f7b). But that's not the end of the story...

Due to the esp32's 100hz clock tick moving the yield into MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK results in a 10ms granularity when a routine uses MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK. extmod/uasyncio_basic.py works around this by including code that checks "is the remaining sleep duration shorter than a 10ms clock tick? if yes, then busy-wait". However, poll_poll_internal doesn't (and really shouldn't since it's not port-specific). The next thing that happens is that in the test suite extmod/uasyncio_basic.py verifies that sleeping in uasyncio for 20ms and 40ms has the desired effect and it turns out it doesn't on the esp32, rather, the sleep times are often 30ms and 50ms. This over-sleeping happens because asyncio's IOQueue uses ipoll to sleep, which now gets 10ms long yields inserted and and mentioned above doesn't compensate for that. So long story short, fixing the not-yielding issue causes over-sleeping when using uasyncio.

IMHO the best fix is to increase the clock tick rate on the esp32 to 1kHz, which would also help reduce latency when waiting to receive a packet but I'm happy to learn about other alternatives!

CANDIDATE · PULL REQUEST

stm32: Convert port to use new event waiting functions.

mergedby dpgeorgeopened 2026-01-13updated 2026-02-23
port-stm32

Summary

Convert the stm32 port from the old MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK macro to use the new mp_event_wait_xxx() functions in conjunction with MICROPY_INTERNAL_WFE.

This change should be functionally equivalent to the existing behaivour because mp_event_wait_ms() and mp_event_wait_indefinite() are equal to mp_handle_pending(true); __WFI();, which is what MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK was.

Testing

Tested on PYBD_SF6 running the test suite.

Trade-offs and Alternatives

The stm32 port doesn't have the ability to "wait for event" for an extended period of time, it only has wfi. So that's all that is used for MICROPY_INTERNAL_WFE, similar to the renesas-ra port.

The CYW43_EVENT_POLL_HOOK macro needed to be overridden, otherwise it would just call mp_event_handle_nowait() which would create power hungry busy loops.

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