Improve sleep time calculation docs

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/displayapp/DisplayApp.cpp b/src/displayapp/DisplayApp.cpp
index 918dd9f9..98a28258 100644
--- a/src/displayapp/DisplayApp.cpp
+++ b/src/displayapp/DisplayApp.cpp
@@ -157,15 +157,20 @@ void DisplayApp::InitHw() {
 }
 
 TickType_t DisplayApp::CalculateSleepTime() {
-  TickType_t ticksElapsed = xTaskGetTickCount() - alwaysOnStartTime;
-  // Divide both the numerator and denominator by 8 to increase the number of ticks (frames) before the overflow tick is reached
+  // Calculates how many system ticks DisplayApp should sleep before rendering the next AOD frame
+  // Next frame time is frame count * refresh period (ms) * tick rate
+
   auto RoundedDiv = [](uint32_t a, uint32_t b) {
     return ((a + (b / 2)) / b);
   };
-  TickType_t elapsedTarget = RoundedDiv((configTICK_RATE_HZ / 8) * alwaysOnTickCount * alwaysOnRefreshPeriod, 1000 / 8);
   // RoundedDiv overflows when numerator + (denominator floordiv 2) > uint32 max
-  // in this case around 9 hours
-  constexpr TickType_t overflowTick = (UINT32_MAX - (1000 / 16)) / ((configTICK_RATE_HZ / 8) * alwaysOnRefreshPeriod);
+  // in this case around 9 hours (=overflow frame count / always on refresh period)
+  constexpr TickType_t overflowFrameCount = (UINT32_MAX - (1000 / 16)) / ((configTICK_RATE_HZ / 8) * alwaysOnRefreshPeriod);
+
+  TickType_t ticksElapsed = xTaskGetTickCount() - alwaysOnStartTime;
+  // Divide both the numerator and denominator by 8 (=GCD(1000,1024))
+  // to increase the number of ticks (frames) before the overflow tick is reached
+  TickType_t targetRenderTick = RoundedDiv((configTICK_RATE_HZ / 8) * alwaysOnFrameCount * alwaysOnRefreshPeriod, 1000 / 8);
 
   // Assumptions
 
@@ -173,17 +178,17 @@ TickType_t DisplayApp::CalculateSleepTime() {
   // Needed for division trick above
   static_assert(configTICK_RATE_HZ % 8 == 0);
 
-  // Local tick count must always wraparound before the system tick count does
-  // As a static assert we can use 64 bit ints and therefore dodge overflows
+  // Frame count must always wraparound more often than the system tick count does
   // Always on overflow time (ms) < system tick overflow time (ms)
-  static_assert((uint64_t) overflowTick * (uint64_t) alwaysOnRefreshPeriod < (uint64_t) UINT32_MAX * 1000ULL / configTICK_RATE_HZ);
+  // Using 64bit ints here to avoid overflow
+  static_assert((uint64_t) overflowFrameCount * (uint64_t) alwaysOnRefreshPeriod < (uint64_t) UINT32_MAX * 1000ULL / configTICK_RATE_HZ);
 
-  if (alwaysOnTickCount == overflowTick) {
-    alwaysOnTickCount = 0;
+  if (alwaysOnFrameCount == overflowFrameCount) {
+    alwaysOnFrameCount = 0;
     alwaysOnStartTime = xTaskGetTickCount();
   }
-  if (elapsedTarget > ticksElapsed) {
-    return elapsedTarget - ticksElapsed;
+  if (targetRenderTick > ticksElapsed) {
+    return targetRenderTick - ticksElapsed;
   } else {
     return 0;
   }
@@ -240,7 +245,7 @@ void DisplayApp::Refresh() {
         if (lv_task_handler() > 0) {
           // Drop frames that we've missed if drawing/event handling took way longer than expected
           while (queueTimeout == 0) {
-            alwaysOnTickCount += 1;
+            alwaysOnFrameCount += 1;
             queueTimeout = CalculateSleepTime();
           }
         }
@@ -311,7 +316,7 @@ void DisplayApp::Refresh() {
         if (msg == Messages::GoToAOD) {
           lcd.LowPowerOn();
           // Record idle entry time
-          alwaysOnTickCount = 0;
+          alwaysOnFrameCount = 0;
           alwaysOnStartTime = xTaskGetTickCount();
           PushMessageToSystemTask(Pinetime::System::Messages::OnDisplayTaskAOD);
           state = States::AOD;