Method to distribute periodic task workload

An information handling system, comprising:

• a microcontroller operable to recognize a predetermined tick interval, to maintain a service variable, to associate computing tasks with execution triggers, and to execute the computing tasks;
• and
• a task manager associated with the microcontroller, wherein the task manager performs operations comprising:
• at a first multiple of the predetermined tick interval, setting a first execution trigger in the service variable;
• at a second multiple of the predetermined tick interval, setting a second execution trigger in the service variable, wherein the second multiple is greater than the first multiple and the second multiple is staggered from the first multiple, such that the first execution trigger and the second execution trigger are not both set during the same tick interval;
• interrogating the service variable at the predetermined tick interval;
• in response to detecting that the first execution trigger has been set, executing a first computing task associated with the first execution trigger;
• and
• in response to detecting that the second execution trigger has been set, executing a second computing task associated with the second execution trigger.

A method of distributing computer tasks using a tick interval in a computer system, the method comprising:

• generating a tick interval for the computer system, the tick interval occurring at least twice as frequently as a most frequently occurring processing task among a predetermined set of processing tasks;
• performing not more than one processing task from the predetermined set of processing tasks at each tick interval;
• and
• performing the most frequently occurring processing task at every other tick interval.