qemu/tests
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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avocado tests/avocado/machine_s390_ccw_virtio: Skip the flaky virtio-gpu test by default 2023-07-24 18:44:48 +02:00
bench
data tests: acpi: update expected blobs 2023-08-03 16:06:49 -04:00
decode
docker gitlab: enable ccache for many build jobs 2023-08-30 14:57:33 +01:00
fp
guest-debug tests/tcg: ensure system-mode gdb tests start stopped 2023-08-10 11:04:34 -07:00
image-fuzzer
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keys
lcitool tests/docker: add python3-tomli dependency to containers 2023-08-28 09:55:48 +02:00
migration tests/migration: Add -fno-stack-protector 2023-08-01 23:52:23 +02:00
multiboot
perf/block/qcow2
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qapi-schema
qemu-iotests
qtest qtest: microbit-test: add tests for nRF51 DETECT 2023-08-22 17:31:02 +01:00
rocker
tcg tests/tcg/s390x: Test VSTRS 2023-08-23 12:07:30 +02:00
tsan
uefi-test-tools
unit
vm tests/docker: add python3-tomli dependency to containers 2023-08-28 09:55:48 +02:00
vmstate-static-checker-data
dbus-vmstate-daemon.sh
Makefile.include Revert "tests: Use separate virtual environment for avocado" 2023-08-28 09:55:48 +02:00
meson.build
test-qht-par.c
vhost-user-bridge.c