qemu/tests/docker
Daniel P. Berrangé 2f7350cd43 gitlab: enable ccache for many build jobs
The `ccache` tool can be very effective at reducing compilation times
when re-running pipelines with only minor changes each time. For example
a fresh 'build-system-fedora' job will typically take 20 minutes on the
gitlab.com shared runners. With ccache this is reduced to as little as
6 minutes.

Normally meson would auto-detect existance of ccache in $PATH and use
it automatically, but the way we wrap meson from configure breaks this,
as we're passing in an config file with explicitly set compiler paths.
Thus we need to add $CCACHE_WRAPPERSPATH to the front of $PATH. For
unknown reasons if doing this in msys though, gcc becomes unable to
invoke 'cc1' when run from meson. For msys we thus set CC='ccache gcc'
before invoking 'configure' instead.

A second problem with msys is that cache misses are incredibly
expensive, so enabling ccache massively slows down the build when
the cache isn't well populated. This is suspected to be a result of
the cost of spawning processes under the msys architecture. To deal
with this we set CCACHE_DEPEND=1 which enables ccache's 'depend_only'
strategy. This avoids extra spawning of the pre-processor during
cache misses, with the downside that is it less likely ccache will
find a cache hit after semantically benign compiler flag changes.
This is the lesser of two evils, as otherwise we can't use ccache
at all under msys and remain inside the job time limit.

If people are finding ccache to hurt their pipelines, it can be
disabled by setting the 'CCACHE_DISABLE=1' env variable against
their gitlab fork CI settings.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230804111054.281802-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230829161528.2707696-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2023-08-30 14:57:33 +01:00
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dockerfiles gitlab: enable ccache for many build jobs 2023-08-30 14:57:33 +01:00
common.rc tests/docker: allow user to override check target 2022-11-22 09:49:03 +00:00
docker.py tests/docker: fix a win32 error due to portability 2023-03-13 15:39:31 +04:00
Makefile.include tests/docker: simplify HOST_ARCH definition 2023-05-26 10:17:32 +02:00
run tests/docker: run script use realpath instead of readlink 2022-10-06 11:53:20 +01:00
test-block docker: test-block: Don't continue if build fails 2017-09-29 11:14:15 +08:00
test-build tests/docker: move DEF_TARGET_LIST setting to common.rc 2019-09-10 14:14:31 +01:00
test-clang tests/docker: remove FEATURES env var from templates 2021-07-14 14:33:53 +01:00
test-debug tests/docker: remove FEATURES env var from templates 2021-07-14 14:33:53 +01:00
test-full docker: move make check into check_qemu helper 2018-07-24 11:45:25 +01:00
test-fuzz tests/docker: add test-fuzz 2023-07-03 12:51:26 +01:00
test-mingw tests/docker: update test-mingw to run single build 2022-10-31 20:37:58 +00:00
test-misc tests/docker: remove FEATURES env var from templates 2021-07-14 14:33:53 +01:00
test-quick tests/docker: move DEF_TARGET_LIST setting to common.rc 2019-09-10 14:14:31 +01:00
test-static tests/docker: add test script for static linux-user builds 2020-08-21 06:18:35 -04:00
test-tcg tests/docker: add a test-tcg for building then running check-tcg 2021-03-10 12:13:59 +00:00
test-tsan testing: update ubuntu2004 to ubuntu2204 2023-03-01 10:31:46 +00:00
test-unit docker: add test-unit runner 2018-07-24 11:45:25 +01:00