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Colin Percival 7457840230 loader: Set twiddle globaldiv to 16 by default
Booting FreeBSD on an EC2 c5.xlarge instance, the loader "twiddles"
810 times over the course of 510 ms, a rate of 1.59 kHz. Even accepting
that many systems are slower than this particular VM and will take
longer to boot (especially if using spinning-rust disks), this seems
like an unhelpfully large amount of twiddling when compared to the
~60 Hz frame rate of many displays; printing the twiddles also consumes
roughly 10% of the boot time on the aforementioned VM.

Setting the default globaldiv to 16 dramatically reduces the time spent
printing twiddles to the console while still twiddling at roughly 100
Hz; this should be ample even for systems which take longer to boot and
consequently twiddle slower.

Note that this can adjusted via the twiddle_divisor variable in
loader.conf, but that file is not processed until nearly halfway
through the loader's runtime.

Reviewed by:	allanjude, jrtc27, kevans
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Differential Revision:	<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32163>
2021-09-28 15:24:02 -07:00
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cddl dtrace.1: Document a couple of preprocessor-related options 2021-09-07 14:04:50 -04:00
contrib contrib/tzdata: import tzdata 2021b 2021-09-26 14:45:39 +08:00
crypto openssh: use global state for blacklist in grace_alarm_handler 2021-09-16 14:10:11 -04:00
etc Add support for jail.conf.d 2021-09-10 00:30:04 -05:00
gnu dialog: fix macro redefinition 2021-03-01 16:01:44 +01:00
include Add _Fork() 2021-08-03 21:19:32 +03:00
kerberos5 pkgbase: Create a FreeBSD-kerberos package 2021-09-07 10:23:14 +02:00
lib mixer(3): Add support for controlling mixer mute and volume on feeder channels. 2021-09-28 11:20:23 +02:00
libexec Fix gssd rc.d installation 2021-09-27 18:31:20 +02:00
release EC2: Default to UEFI booting 2021-09-16 12:23:19 -07:00
rescue Fix building rescue/rescue when sanitizers are enabled 2021-07-06 12:18:30 +01:00
sbin mount: make libxo support more locale-aware 2021-09-27 07:12:26 +02:00
secure openssh: Add new source files to libssl 2021-09-10 00:56:24 +02:00
share mgb: Update man page wrt state of the driver 2021-09-28 16:28:37 -04:00
stand loader: Set twiddle globaldiv to 16 by default 2021-09-28 15:24:02 -07:00
sys mgb: Apply some style(9) 2021-09-28 16:17:16 -04:00
targets Fix bootstrapping to actually build lldb-tblgen for later use 2021-08-24 15:04:25 +01:00
tests Temporarily skip flaky tset cases under sys.aio.aio_test in CI 2021-09-29 03:32:47 +08:00
tools nemtap: lb app: Validate ihl field when hashing packet 2021-09-26 13:48:21 +00:00
usr.bin Add myself to calendar.freebsd 2021-09-27 17:47:01 +09:00
usr.sbin syslogd: undo regression after r326573 2021-09-27 14:25:21 +07:00
.arcconfig Remove history.immutable from .arcconfig 2021-04-13 12:36:25 +01:00
.arclint arc lint: ignore /tests/ in chmod 2017-12-19 03:38:06 +00:00
.cirrus.yml Cirrus-CI: add a manually triggered arm64 task 2021-09-14 15:12:55 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Add bitset loop macros 2021-09-21 12:08:01 -04:00
.gitattributes Add a basic clang-format configuration file 2019-06-07 15:23:52 +00:00
.gitignore gitignore: Add .clangd and .ccls-cache 2021-06-04 16:56:08 +08:00
COPYRIGHT copyrights: Happy New Year 2021 2020-12-31 10:29:44 -05:00
LOCKS LOCKS: update current locks 2018-06-09 03:08:04 +00:00
MAINTAINERS [skip ci] volunteer to maintain POSIX AIO 2021-05-30 17:21:12 -06:00
Makefile Revert "Fix native-xtools build" 2021-08-03 10:00:28 -07:00
Makefile.inc1 Drop cloudabi 2021-09-22 00:18:44 +03:00
Makefile.libcompat Prefer MK_SSP=no to SSP_CFLAGS= 2021-08-04 15:23:22 -03:00
Makefile.sys.inc AUTO_OBJ: For all top-level targets enforce using an OBJDIR. 2017-12-05 21:29:47 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc boot(9): update to match reality 2021-09-28 11:36:09 -03:00
README.md Vendor import of OpenSSH 8.7p1 2021-08-30 15:14:33 -04:00
RELNOTES RELNOTES: Add entries for KASAN and KMSAN 2021-08-11 13:08:36 -04:00
UPDATING UPDATING: new entry about dummynet 2021-09-24 14:21:25 +02:00

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