DarkRoom/.gitea/workflows/benchmark.yml

name: Benchmarks

# The suite docs/requirements.md §8 has been promising since it was written:
# "an automated benchmark suite against a synthetic 50k catalog, run per-commit
# … A regression beyond stated tolerance fails the build."
#
# Its own workflow rather than a step inside build-and-test.yml, and the reason
# is what a failure here means. A red `Build and test` says the code is wrong; a
# red `Benchmarks` says the code is slower than it was, which is a different
# conversation, is read by different people, and must not be reachable by
# retrying a flaky compile.
#
# # Why this is split in two
#
# §8 names "the reference desktop", not CI, and it is right to. So:
#
#   cpu — runs on every push. It needs no adapter and no display, and the
#         budgets it asserts (a 50k catalog opening inside two seconds) have
#         two orders of magnitude of headroom, so a modest runner can be held
#         to them honestly. Machine-sensitive budgets — throughput targets
#         written for a 24-thread desktop — are reported here rather than
#         asserted; `dr-bench` decides that per metric and says so in its
#         report. Asserting them on a two-core container would produce exactly
#         what core/dr-gpu/tests/frame_budget.rs refused to produce: a red gate
#         everybody learns to ignore.
#
#   gpu — the frame budget, which already exists and already skips itself where
#         there is no adapter. Not on push: it would build wgpu and naga on
#         every commit to establish, every time, that this runner has no GPU. It
#         runs on demand (Actions → Run workflow) so that a runner that *does*
#         have one can be pointed at it, and the numbers it produces belong in
#         docs/frame-budget.md by hand, as they already are.

on:
  push:
    branches: [main, master, develop]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main, master, develop]
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  cpu:
    runs-on: linux/amd64
    name: CPU and I/O (per commit)
    # Node for actions/checkout and actions/cache, which the bare runner image
    # cannot execute. Rust is installed below.
    container:
      image: catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest

    env:
      # Same reasoning as the desktop job in build-and-test.yml: incremental
      # state exists to make the *second* build in a working tree fast, which is
      # not a thing a fresh checkout has, and it fills the runner's disk.
      CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
      # The fixture, out of the workspace so actions/cache never picks it up.
      # A 14 MB synthetic catalog is two seconds to regenerate and would
      # otherwise be uploaded and downloaded on every push to save them.
      DR_BENCH_DIR: /tmp/darkroom-bench

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # No `git lfs pull` here, deliberately. `dr-bench` depends on the catalog,
      # the decoder, the thumbnail store and the encoder, and on nothing that
      # reaches `dr-segment` — so the model this repository keeps in LFS is not
      # part of this job's dependency graph and fetching it would be a minute
      # spent on a file nothing opens.

      - name: Cache cargo
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            ~/.cargo/git
            target
          key: bench-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('**/Cargo.lock') }}

      # Pinned to the workspace rust-version, as every other job here is: a
      # floating toolchain turns an unrelated push into a mystery failure, and
      # for a benchmark it would turn one into a mystery *regression*.
      #
      # rust-analyzer is named for the reason build-and-test.yml gives: rustup
      # reconciles rust-toolchain.toml on the first cargo call whatever this
      # step asks for, so naming it keeps the download inside the step that says
      # it is installing things.
      - name: Install Rust 1.92.0
        run: |
          set -e
          curl -fsSL https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- \
            -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain 1.92.0 \
            --component rust-analyzer
          echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"

      # `-p dr-bench`, not `--workspace`. The whole point of that crate having
      # no GPU and no UI dependency is that this job resolves the catalog, the
      # decoder and the encoders and stops there — a few minutes rather than the
      # release build of Slint and wgpu the desktop job pays for.
      #
      # Release, and it is not optional: the workspace builds its own crates at
      # opt-level = 0 in dev, and every figure this produces is dominated by
      # this workspace's own code. A debug run would measure rustc.
      - name: Build the suite
        run: cargo build --release -p dr-bench

      # Exit 1 is a violated budget or a regression past tolerance; exit 2 is
      # the harness failing to run at all. Both fail the job, and the report
      # above the failure says which.
      - name: Measure, and gate
        run: cargo run --release -p dr-bench -- check

      - name: Disk after
        if: always()
        run: df -h /workspace 2>/dev/null || df -h .

  gpu:
    # On demand only — see the header. A runner with a Vulkan device can be
    # pointed at this; one without will skip the measurement and say so, which
    # is the same posture the rest of this repository's device tests take.
    if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
    runs-on: linux/amd64
    name: Frame budget (on demand)
    container:
      image: catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest

    env:
      CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # `dr-gpu` depends on `dr-segment` for the watershed's pixel passes. Its
      # default features are off, so no weights are compiled in — but the fetch
      # is cheap insurance and its failure is not fatal. The header of the same
      # step in build-and-test.yml explains why the extraheader is stripped
      # rather than reused: two Authorization headers is a 400 from Gitea, one
      # step after the batch call that had just succeeded.
      - name: Fetch the segmentation model
        continue-on-error: true
        env:
          LFS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN || github.token }}
        run: |
          set -e
          git lfs install --local
          git config --local --get-regexp '^http\..*extraheader$' \
            | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort -u \
            | while read -r key; do git config --local --unset-all "$key"; done || true
          git config --local lfs.url \
            "https://x-access-token:${LFS_TOKEN}@gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/DarkRoom.git/info/lfs"
          git lfs pull --exclude="fixtures/**,docs/manual/media/**"

      - name: Cache cargo
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            ~/.cargo/git
            target
          key: bench-gpu-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('**/Cargo.lock') }}

      - name: Build dependencies
        run: |
          apt-get update -qq
          apt-get install -y -qq pkg-config libfontconfig1-dev libxkbcommon-dev

      - name: Install Rust 1.92.0
        run: |
          set -e
          curl -fsSL https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- \
            -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain 1.92.0 \
            --component rust-analyzer
          echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"

      # The guard, in release. Its own module documentation is explicit that a
      # release run checks strictly more than a dev one: the CPU half of a frame
      # is shader-string assembly, which is several times slower unoptimised, so
      # it is folded into the assertion only when debug_assertions is off.
      #
      # With no adapter this prints "skipping: no GPU adapter" and passes. A
      # test that cannot run is not evidence either way, and turning that into a
      # failure would make the job useless on the runner it usually lands on.
      - name: Frame budget (FR-DSP-3)
        run: cargo test --release -p dr-gpu --test frame_budget -- --nocapture

      # The instrument behind docs/frame-budget.md. It exits non-zero with no
      # adapter, which is right for a tool a person runs deliberately and wrong
      # for a job that usually has none — hence continue-on-error. Its table is
      # in the log for whoever asked for this run; the committed numbers are
      # still updated by hand, as that file says.
      - name: Frame budget table
        continue-on-error: true
        run: cargo run --release -p dr-gpu --example frame_budget