## Description
Extends our differential tests such that the compile+compare bytecode
hashes and the E2E tests also exercise the newyork IR pipeline.
The requested compiler modes that E2E test cases run with are still
controlled by the metadata in the corpus, but the related PR listed
below also enables support for an allow-list to optionally narrow the
set of modes run, via an input to the GH action used.
The changes to the workflow in this PR allows all newyork retester
compiler modes (all LLVM opt levels + solc optimizer on/off) to run for
the E2E tests since they still complete fast.
## Related
The PRs implemented as prerequisites alongside this PR are:
* `revive-differential-tests`
* [Support optimized newyork IR compiler
pipeline](https://github.com/paritytech/revive-differential-tests/pull/308)
* `resolc-compiler-tests`
* [Add newyork IR pipeline counterparts for explicitly-listed Yul
modes](https://github.com/paritytech/resolc-compiler-tests/pull/15)
## Resolved issues
Closes#553
## Description
Improves overall time spent for our CI checks to complete. For cache
hits, total time decreases from ~70min to ~29min.
## Overview
```mermaid
gantt
title CI on a PR — BEFORE ~70m vs NOW ~29m
dateFormat HH:mm
axisFormat %M
section BEFORE ~70m
[release] build-wasm 20m :r1, 00:00, 20m
[release] build-x86_64-apple-darwin 17m :r2, 00:00, 17m
[release] build-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc 11m :r3, 00:00, 11m
[release] build-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl 10m :r4, 00:00, 10m
[release] build-aarch64-apple-darwin 8m :r5, 00:00, 8m
[release] create-macos-universal 14s :r6, 00:17, 1m
[test-wasm] own duplicate wasm build 19m :w1, 00:00, 19m
[test-wasm] test matrix 3m :w2, 00:19, 3m
[test] required 12m :crit, t1, 00:00, 12m
[differential-tests] build matrix waits 8m for release :crit, t2, 00:12, 8m
[differential-tests] macos-x86_64 compile and hash 44m :crit, t3, 00:20, 44m
[differential-tests] windows-x86_64 compile and hash 26m :t4, 00:20, 26m
[differential-tests] linux-x86_64 compile and hash 20m :t5, 00:20, 20m
[differential-tests] macos-arm64 compile and hash 15m :t6, 00:20, 15m
[differential-tests] run-e2e-tests parallel 43m :t7, 00:22, 43m
[differential-tests] compare-hashes 5m :crit, t8, 01:04, 5m
[hardhat] use-hardhat chained 1m :crit, t9, 01:09, 1m
section NOW ~29m
[release] build-windows 3m :nr1, 00:00, 3m
[release] build-x86_64-apple-darwin 7m :nr2, 00:00, 7m
[release] build-linux 2m :nr3, 00:00, 2m
[release] build-aarch64-apple-darwin 2m :nr4, 00:00, 2m
[release] create-macos-universal 23s :nr5, 00:07, 1m
[release] build-wasm cache hit ~11s :nr6, 00:15, 1m
[test-wasm] shared wasm build 15m :nw1, 00:00, 15m
[test-wasm] test matrix 3m :nw2, 00:15, 3m
[test] required 6m :crit, nt1, 00:00, 6m
[test] check-changes 2s parallel :nt2, 00:00, 1m
[differential-tests] per-target cache hits ~1m 30s :crit, nt3, 00:06, 2m
[differential-tests] windows-x86_64 compile and hash 19m :crit, nt4, 00:08, 19m
[differential-tests] linux-x86_64 compile and hash 16m :nt5, 00:08, 16m
[differential-tests] macos-arm64 compile and hash 13m :nt6, 00:08, 13m
[differential-tests] run-e2e-tests 16m :nt7, 00:08, 16m
[differential-tests] compare-hashes 2m :crit, nt8, 00:27, 2m
[hardhat] use-hardhat parallel 1m :nt9, 00:07, 1m
```
## Measurements
| Metric | Before | Now | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| **PR CI wall-clock** | 70m 15s | 28m 47s | **−41m 28s (−59%)** |
| `test` job (required check) | 12m 10s | 6m 17s | −5m 53s (faster LLVM
download) |
| `compile-and-hash` build phase | ~7m 30s (waiting on release builds) |
~30s (builds already available) to ~1m 30s (if waiting for macos) |
−6-7m (per-target build split + faster LLVM download) |
| `run-e2e-tests` build phase | ~7m 30s (waiting on release builds) |
~30s (`linux-x86_64` already available) | −7m (per-target build split) |
| Longest `compile-and-hash` job | 44m 05s (`macos-x86_64`) | 19m 08s
(`windows-x86_64`) | −24m 57s (`macos-x86_64` excluded on PRs) |
| `compile-and-hash` matrix start time | 20m 13s | 7m 54s | −12m 19s
(per-target build split + faster LLVM download) |
| `run-e2e-tests` start time | 21m 50s | 7m 36s | −14m 14s (per-target
build split + faster LLVM download) |
| `run-e2e-tests` duration | 43m 28s | 16m 22s | −27m 06s (concurrency
bump + flakiness fix) |
## Changes
| Change | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| **Per-target build sub-workflows** | <ul><li>Getting a reusable build
depended on all builds completing.</li><li>Even if e.g. a macOS build is
cached, the waiting workflow with macOS runners could be queued for a
long time just to get the status and cache of the other workflow, since
macOS runners are more scarce than e.g. Ubuntu.</li></ul> |
<ul><li>Split umbrella `reusable-build.yml` into
`reusable-build-{linux,macos,windows,wasm}.yml`.</li><li>Consumers can
wait on a specific target and start earlier instead of blocking on the
whole matrix.</li><li>E.g. E2E and the compile-and-hash matrix start
earlier (gate only on the targets needed).</li></ul> |
| **Bottleneck macOS Intel only running on `main`** | macOS Intel
runners are 2-3× slower than macOS ARM for the contract compilation
tests. Ran on each PR, being the bottleneck. | This build is now
excluded from the matrix for PR runs, and only included for pushes to
`main`. |
| **E2E tests use higher concurrency** | `run-e2e-tests` duration:
~43min.</li></ul> | <ul><li>Uses higher number of concurrent tasks, made
possible by retester flakiness fix.</li><li>`run-e2e-tests` duration:
~16min.</li></ul> |
| **Faster LLVM downloads** | Building resolc took ~8-13min (~16 min on
macOS intel). | `get-llvm/action.yml` uses more efficient version
detection. Building resolc now takes ~2min (~4-7 min on macOS intel). |
| **Wasm tests use cached artifacts** | `test-wasm.yml` ran its own
duplicate build. | `test-wasm.yml` uses the reusable Wasm build. |
| **Skip unnecessary polkadot-sdk package** | For E2E tests,
`polkadot-omni-node` was unconditionally downloaded (~3-4min). | Only
`pallet-revive-eth-rpc` and `revive-dev-node` are downloaded from the
cache. |
| **Cache `report-processor`** | Only `retester` was cached. |
`report-processor` is cached for the compilations and export hashes
jobs. |
| **Hardhat unblocked from differential tests** | Started after the
differential tests succeeded in order to reuse the Linux build. | Starts
as soon as the required `test` job succeeds, using the reusable Linux
build. |
| **Conditionally skip workflows** | <ul><li>Some workflows
conditionally skipped for md-only changes.</li><li>Tooling-only changes
also ran e.g. `test-wasm.yml` and `differential-tests.yml`.</ul></li> |
<ul><li>Most workflows are skipped for doc-only
updates.</li><li>Tooling-only updates trigger only the respective
tooling test (Hardhat), apart from the required `test`
job.</li><li>Differential tests are skipped for js-only
updates.</li></ul> |
| **Miscellaneous** | <ul><li>Used actions running on soon-deprecated
Node 20.</li><li>Difficult to debug Playwright `test-wasm`
failures.</li></ul> | <ul><li>Upgraded actions that used Node
20.</li><li>Added Playwright debug traces uploaded on `test-wasm`
failures.</li></ul> |
## Resolved Issues
Closes#533
We experienced flakiness in the e2e tests after bumping the
revive-differential-tests submodule which included changes to the global
RPC concurrency limiter and batching layer. This PR attempts to fix the
flakiness by lowering the number of concurrent tasks spawned.
- Support solc v0.8.35
- The new `erc7201` is comptime (already translated to a constant in
Yul)
Didn't spot any relevant breakage or addition in the release notes so
should be no-brainer.
---------
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Leutwiler <bigcyrill@hotmail.com>
LJ