From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Yonggang Luo" <luoyonggang@gmail.com>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] gitlab-ci: Decrease the size of the compiler cache
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:17:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251020161759.50241-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Uploading the cache from the runner takes a long time in the MSYS2
job, mostly due to the size of the compiler cache.
However, looking at runs with a non-poluted cache, it seems like
you can get a build with a 99% hit rate already with ~ 160 MiB cache
size, so the compiler cache with 500 MiB certainly contains a lot of
stale files. Thus decrease the size of the ccache to a more reasonable
value to speed up the MSYS2 job in our CI.
While at it, also add a "du -sh" for the build folder to get a better
feeling for the amount of object code that is required for the build,
and publish the list of files in /var/cache to be able to better
analyze what is really clogging our cache here.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
v2: Decrease cache size to 180M and save cache-log.txt as artifact
.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
index 6e1135d8b86..5dbdabfbec0 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ msys2-64bit:
expire_in: 7 days
paths:
- build/meson-logs
+ - build/cache-log.txt
reports:
junit: build/meson-logs/*.junit.xml
before_script:
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ msys2-64bit:
- $env:MSYS = 'winsymlinks:native' # Enable native Windows symlink
- $env:CCACHE_BASEDIR = "$env:CI_PROJECT_DIR"
- $env:CCACHE_DIR = "$env:CCACHE_BASEDIR/ccache"
- - $env:CCACHE_MAXSIZE = "500M"
+ - $env:CCACHE_MAXSIZE = "180M"
- $env:CCACHE_DEPEND = 1 # cache misses are too expensive with preprocessor mode
- $env:CC = "ccache gcc"
- mkdir build
@@ -103,5 +104,7 @@ msys2-64bit:
- ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "../configure $CONFIGURE_ARGS"
- ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "make -j$env:JOBS"
- ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "make check MTESTARGS='$TEST_ARGS' || { cat meson-logs/testlog.txt; exit 1; } ;"
+ - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "ls -lR /var/cache > cache-log.txt"
+ - ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "du -sh ."
- ..\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "ccache --show-stats"
- Write-Output "Finished build at $(Get-Date -Format u)"
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-20 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-20 16:17 Thomas Huth [this message]
2025-10-20 17:37 ` [PATCH v2] gitlab-ci: Decrease the size of the compiler cache Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-10-20 17:56 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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