freebsd-dev/stand/libsa/twiddle.c
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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#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include <sys/types.h>
#include "stand.h"
/* Extra functions from NetBSD standalone printf.c */
static u_int globaldiv = 16;
void
twiddle(u_int callerdiv)
{
static u_int callercnt, globalcnt, pos;
TSENTER();
callercnt++;
if (callerdiv > 1 && (callercnt % callerdiv) != 0) {
TSEXIT();
return;
}
globalcnt++;
if (globaldiv > 1 && (globalcnt % globaldiv) != 0) {
TSEXIT();
return;
}
putchar("|/-\\"[pos++ & 3]);
putchar('\b');
TSEXIT();
}
void
twiddle_divisor(u_int gdiv)
{
globaldiv = gdiv;
}