commit 18c2c36cf42e890814043914625602a3e86a98b9
author Brian Silverman <brians> Sat Jan 02 14:18:32 2016 -0800
committer Brian Silverman <brians> Sat Jan 02 14:52:36 2016 -0800
tree a4b375b8a9aa621373311141fe82e4b6b461ec87
parent 5090c4348c80d30da198840410a1f186a26d005c

Use the logging queue to buffer logs

This reduces context switches and mutex contention a lot, which reduces
roboRIO CPU usage significantly.

Change-Id: I21c0f7c127df36bf877133c626cff3d56b93b230

aos/common/logging/log_streamer.cc

diff --git a/aos/common/logging/log_streamer.cc b/aos/common/logging/log_streamer.cc
index f214d99..ab37e02 100644
--- a/aos/common/logging/log_streamer.cc
+++ b/aos/common/logging/log_streamer.cc
@@ -31,13 +31,15 @@
          now.sec(), now.nsec());
 
   while (true) {
-    const LogMessage *const msg =
-        static_cast<const LogMessage *>(queue->ReadMessage(RawQueue::kBlock));
-    if (msg == NULL) continue;
+    const LogMessage *const msg = static_cast<const LogMessage *>(
+        queue->ReadMessage(RawQueue::kNonBlock));
+    if (msg == NULL) {
+      ::aos::time::SleepFor(::aos::time::Time::InSeconds(0.1));
+    } else {
+      internal::PrintMessage(stdout, *msg);
 
-    internal::PrintMessage(stdout, *msg);
-
-    queue->FreeMessage(msg);
+      queue->FreeMessage(msg);
+    }
   }
 
   Cleanup();