Won't impact performance much. But fewer make foo makes porting the C++
unit tests (which are the largest remaining tests) to the Python
archiver easier to grok.
This conversion did change behavior slightly. Previously, startup
cache files weren't being packaged if startup cache was disabled. Now,
we always package them since their presence in the test archive should
be harmless. The original change to guard their inclusion in
ee82e0ae5488 was probably unnecessary.
This is slightly more involved than earlier changes because reftests
have a one-off mechanism for finding files. Essentially, the master
reftest manifest is loaded, directories are discovered, and every file
in those directories is packaged.
We add support to our test archive generation tool to read sources from
reftest manifests and tell it where the reftest manifests are.
print-manifest-dirs.py was only being used for staging reftest files.
Since we don't do that any more, the functionality doesn't need to exist
in a standalone file, so it has been moved inline into test_archive.py.
This change avoids copying ~26,000 tests consuming 131 MB during test
packaging. This is a majority of the file count that was remaining in
the stage directory at this point. On my machine (which hasn't typically
seen major wall time wins from not staging files due to its fast SSD),
this change made test packaging ~20% faster, reducing wall time from
~50s to ~40s!
A Try push seemed to indicate drastic results with the series up to this
point. Including the already landed changes to generate test archives
concurrently, test packaging times on OS X builders dropped from ~18:40
to 6:29! Times on Linux x64 remained about the same (~2:46). This is
possibly due to these machines already having SSDs and due to normal
variance in performance of builders and EC2 instances.
With this change, all test ZIP archives are now generated via Python and
mozpack.
This change does not change I/O or file copy behavior at all. There is
still a lot of room for eliminating extra file copies.
The web-platform test archive now builds without any staging at all.
This saves ~103 MB of file copies on my machine.
The testing/web-platform/Makefile.in serves no purpose after this
change, so it and all references to it have been removed.
This is very similar to what we did for xpcshell. Like xpcshell, there
are still some staged files. However, about 73MB of copies are
eliminated with this change. On my machine, overall execution time of
test packaging appears to decrease, although CPU usage is up slightly.
This commit produces the xpcshell test archive without staging 5000+
xpcshell test files first.
We teach the archiver to ignore .mkdir.done files.
The xpcshell Makefile.in still stages some files. This is less than
ideal. However, it is a small handful of files and shouldn't add too
much overhead.
This appears to not impact overall CPU usage significantly on my
machine, despute using Python instead of `zip`. It does reduce I/O
by ~25MB by avoiding the staging copy.
Test archive generation currently copies a bunch of files into a staging
area then runs `zip` to produce ZIP files. There are 2 concerns with
this approach:
1) We incur a lot of extra I/O to copy files so everything is
rooted in a single tree so the `zip` invocation and paths are
simple.
2) ZIP files inherit properties from the local filesystem (including
mtime), making ZIP files non-deterministic.
This commit introduces a new mozbuild action for producing test
archives. It does so using the mozpack file finder and JAR writer,
which are used throughout the build to deterministically
produce ZIP/JAR files from files in multiple source directories.
We implement support for producing the mozharness archive. This archive
does not involve files that are staged, so no I/O is saved. In fact,
the switch from `zip` to Python likely makes this slightly slower.
However, we do have deterministic archives now.
Additional archives will be ported over in subsequent commits.
