On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 13:21:40 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In our current GHA workflows, we only run workflows in branches in personal > forks. GHA isolation rules say that workflow caches from the parent branches > can be used by descendant branches. For our branches, the usual parent is > `master`. Since we do not run workflows on `master`, this means every time we > create a new branch, GHA would start with logically empty caches for it. Only > the next trigger on the same branch would use the caches, saved from the > first workflow run. > > This means we put additional load on shared infrastructure with pulling JDKs, > building jtreg (and pulling its dependencies), bootstrapping sysroots, etc. > All these steps also fail intermittently every so often. It also means > everyone carries lots of caches around, segregated by branch and repo (look > into your https://github.com/your-github-name/jdk/actions/caches, for > example) only relying on cache cleanups when it starts to hit 10 GB. With > hundreds of contributors, this easily wastes terabytes of cloud storage space. > > We can make all this more efficient and reliable, if we manage to run a > master-branch workflow that bootstraps all required dependencies and caches > them. These dependencies can then be used by PR branches, as "master" branch > is their effective parent. > > This PR introduces the notion of "dry run", which does everything _except_ > the actual builds and tests. Therefore, it verifies whether all dependencies > are done properly for JDK configure to pass. This is useful in itself for > future GHA debugging of dependencies. Workflow can be dispatched with > additional "dry run" parameter now. > > What makes master-branch caching possible is the second part of the PR that > hooks up dry runs to master/stabilization branch pushes. These would make the > dry-run workflow run every time you update your personal fork's > master/stabilization branch. That dry run would likely finish very quickly if > all caches are already in place. It would populate caches in > master/stabilization branch in your personal fork, if not. > > The expected net result is that actual PRs that are branched off the personal > fork master would be able to use the caches from that master workflow run. > (If you want to make this experiment in current GHA, trigger the existing > workflow on `master` branch in your fork, it would do roughly the same, but > with all builds/tests). > > A sample "dry-run" can be seen here: > https://github.com/shipilev/jdk/actions/runs/16074619302. The most > heavy-weight part is MSYS2 unpacking in Windows builds, and t... This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 1fa772e8 Author: Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/1fa772e8143bb2d758ef183280d123d1ff8aada8 Stats: 94 lines in 7 files changed: 91 ins; 2 del; 1 mod 8343546: GHA: Cache required dependencies in master-branch workflow Reviewed-by: ihse ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26134
