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Run the integration tests in parallel: 168s of tests becomes 16s

44530e746def72216bf02e88716f121936576ab7 · Keenan Nemetz · 16d ago · parent 6c03e461

Run the integration tests in parallel: 168s of tests becomes 16s

The suite was serial, and it is the wrong shape to be serial. 95 tests in
internal/server each start a server, push over SSH and shell out to git, so
they spend nearly all their time waiting on child processes and almost none
on CPU: the package took 148s wall for 23s of user time. Sixteen cores were
sitting idle while tests waited for git.

Every test now calls t.Parallel(). Nothing else about the fixtures had to
change, because they were already isolated the way parallelism needs: each
gets t.TempDir(), binds 127.0.0.1:0, and passes its environment through
cmd.Env rather than the process's. binPath is built once by TestMain and is
read-only.

Measured on 16 cores: internal/server 148.4s -> 12.8s, the whole suite
168s -> 16s, and `scripts/ci.sh` (gofmt, vet, build, link check, then the
whole suite under -race) 19.5s end to end. Verified stable across six
repeated runs, two `-shuffle=on` runs and two `-race` runs, with no data
races reported, so the parallelism is exposing isolation the fixtures
already had rather than luck.

The critical path is now one test, TestKilledRunnerIsRequeued, because it is
genuinely a timing test: it waits for a lease to expire and for the requeue
sweep. Its fixture workflow held the step for `sleep 8`, which also runs on
the retry, so eight of its fourteen seconds were the fixture waiting for
itself. Three seconds keeps the property it is testing — the runner must
still be working when it is killed, and the kill happens as soon as the lease
is visible — and takes the test to 9.7s.

What is left is fixture setup, and most of it is SQLite schema creation:
runs.Open is ~89ms and index.Open ~58ms on a *fresh* file. Measured, that is
not the eleven ALTER TABLE statements that are expected to fail on "duplicate
column" — on a warm connection those cost 2us for all eleven. It is the
CREATE TABLE / CREATE INDEX work itself, and modernc's pure-Go engine is much
slower at DDL than C SQLite. Reopening an already-created database is 408us,
so this is a cost paid once per database file, not once per open: in
production it is `vole init` and nowhere else. Tests pay it 95 times because
every fixture starts from an empty data directory.

Left alone deliberately, for two reasons. It is ~1s of wall time across the
suite, and the only fixes available are test-side (build the empty databases
once in TestMain and copy the files per fixture) or would mean changing
storage engines — which is the wrong conclusion from 150ms, and is not what
those 89ms are about.

The invariant is written down at the top of internal/server's test file, with
the rules a new test has to keep: no t.Setenv, no fixed paths, no shared
state beyond binPath, no ordering assumptions, and the shortest sleep a
fixture can get away with — because a test's own wait sets the floor for the
whole package and parallelism cannot hide it.

internal/gitx and cmd/vole keep `t.Setenv` tests, which cannot be parallel,
so those packages are unchanged. They take 0.2s and 0.5s.

internal/web/diff_test.go +7

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ index 3333333..0000000
28 28 `
29 29
30 30 func TestParseDiff(t *testing.T) {
31 t.Parallel()
31 32 files := parseDiff(patchTwoFiles)
32 33 if len(files) != 2 {
33 34 t.Fatalf("parsed %d files, want 2: %+v", len(files), files)
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ func TestParseDiff(t *testing.T) {
62 63 }
63 64
64 65 func TestParseDiffOfABinaryFile(t *testing.T) {
66 t.Parallel()
65 67 files := parseDiff(`diff --git a/logo.png b/logo.png
66 68 index 4444444..5555555 100644
67 69 Binary files a/logo.png and b/logo.png differ
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ Binary files a/logo.png and b/logo.png differ
72 74 }
73 75
74 76 func TestParseDiffOfANewFile(t *testing.T) {
77 t.Parallel()
75 78 files := parseDiff(`diff --git a/new.txt b/new.txt
76 79 new file mode 100644
77 80 index 0000000..6666666
@@ -91,6 +94,7 @@ index 0000000..6666666
91 94 }
92 95
93 96 func TestParseDiffOfARename(t *testing.T) {
97 t.Parallel()
94 98 files := parseDiff(`diff --git a/old.md b/new.md
95 99 similarity index 100%
96 100 rename from old.md
@@ -107,6 +111,7 @@ rename to new.md
107 111 }
108 112
109 113 func TestParseDiffIgnoresPlumbing(t *testing.T) {
114 t.Parallel()
110 115 files := parseDiff(`diff --git a/app.go b/app.go
111 116 index aaa..bbb 100644
112 117 --- a/app.go
@@ -128,6 +133,7 @@ index aaa..bbb 100644
128 133 }
129 134
130 135 func TestParseDiffToleratesATruncatedPatch(t *testing.T) {
136 t.Parallel()
131 137 // A cut patch ends mid-hunk: it must render what it has, not panic or claim
132 138 // the missing lines were unchanged.
133 139 files := parseDiff(`diff --git a/big.txt b/big.txt
@@ -145,6 +151,7 @@ func TestParseDiffToleratesATruncatedPatch(t *testing.T) {
145 151 }
146 152
147 153 func TestDiffSummary(t *testing.T) {
154 t.Parallel()
148 155 added, removed := diffSummary(parseDiff(patchTwoFiles))
149 156 if added != 2 || removed != 3 {
150 157 t.Fatalf("summary = +%d −%d, want +2 −3", added, removed)