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Workflow file for this run

name: Benchmark
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
repo:
type: string
description: GitHub repository to fetch from (default to the current repo)
pr_id:
type: number
required: true
description: The PR to test
commit:
required: true
type: string
description: The expect HEAD of the PR
category:
required: true
type: string
description: The category (or categories) of tests to run, for example buffers, cluster etc. Maps to a folders in node/benchmark
filter:
type: string
description: A substring to restrict the benchmarks to run in a category. e.g. `net-c2c`
runs:
type: number
default: 30
description: How many times to repeat each benchmark
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
build:
strategy:
fail-fast: true
matrix:
include:
- runner: ubuntu-24.04
system: x86_64-linux
- runner: ubuntu-24.04-arm
system: aarch64-linux
- runner: macos-15-intel
system: x86_64-darwin
- runner: macos-latest
system: aarch64-darwin
name: '${{ matrix.system }}: with shared libraries'
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
repository: ${{ inputs.repo || github.repository }}
ref: refs/pull/${{ inputs.pr_id }}/merge
persist-credentials: false
fetch-depth: 2
- name: Validate PR head and roll back to base commit
run: |
[ "$(git rev-parse HEAD^2)" = "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]
git reset HEAD^ --hard
env:
EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ inputs.commit }}
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@8aa03977d8d733052d78f4e008a241fd1dbf36b3 # v31.10.6
with:
extra_nix_config: sandbox = true
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@5f2d7c5294214f71b873db4b969586b980625e71 # v17
with:
# We do not pass any `authToken` to avoid polluting the cache with potentially untrusted code.
name: nodejs
- name: Configure sccache
uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
with:
script: |
core.exportVariable('SCCACHE_GHA_VERSION', 'on');
core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2', 'on');
core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL', process.env.ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL || '');
core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN', process.env.ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN || '');
- name: Build Node.js on the base commit
run: |
nix-shell \
-I nixpkgs=./tools/nix/pkgs.nix \
--pure --keep TAR_DIR --keep FLAKY_TESTS \
--keep SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED --keep ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2 --keep ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL --keep ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN \
--arg useSeparateDerivationForV8 true \
--arg loadJSBuiltinsDynamically false \
--arg ccache "${NIX_SCCACHE:-null}" \
--arg devTools '[]' \
--arg benchmarkTools '[]' \
--run '
make build-ci -j4 V=1
'
mv out/Release/node base_node
- name: Checkout the merge commit
run: git reset FETCH_HEAD --hard
- name: Re-build Node.js on the merge commit
# ccache is disabled here to avoid polluting the cache. Local build outputs should make this build relatively quick anyway.
run: |
nix-shell \
-I nixpkgs=./tools/nix/pkgs.nix \
--pure \
--arg useSeparateDerivationForV8 true \
--arg loadJSBuiltinsDynamically false \
--arg ccache 'null' \
--arg devTools '[]' \
--arg benchmarkTools '[]' \
--run '
make -j4 V=1
'
- name: Run benchmark
run: |
nix-shell \
-I nixpkgs=./tools/nix/pkgs.nix \
--pure --keep FILTER --keep LC_ALL --keep LANG \
--arg loadJSBuiltinsDynamically false \
--arg ccache 'null' \
--arg icu 'null' \
--arg sharedLibDeps '{}' \
--arg devTools '[]' \
--run '
set -o pipefail
./base_node benchmark/compare.js \
--filter "$FILTER" \
--runs ${{ inputs.runs }} \
--old ./base_node --new ./node \
-- ${{ inputs.category }} \
| tee /dev/stderr \
> ${{ matrix.system }}.csv
echo "> [!WARNING] "
echo "> Do not take GHA benchmark results as face value, always confirm them"
echo "> using a dedicated machine, e.g. Jenkins CI."
echo
echo "Benchmark results:"
echo
echo '"'"'```'"'"'
Rscript benchmark/compare.R < ${{ matrix.system }}.csv
echo '"'"'```'"'"'
echo
echo "> [!WARNING] "
echo "> Do not take GHA benchmark results as face value, always confirm them"
echo "> using a dedicated machine, e.g. Jenkins CI."
' | tee /dev/stderr >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
env:
FILTER: ${{ inputs.filter }}
- name: Upload raw benchmark results
uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
with:
name: csv-${{ matrix.system }}
path: ${{ matrix.system }}.csv
aggregate-results:
needs: build
name: Aggregate benchmark results
runs-on: ubuntu-slim
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
persist-credentials: false
sparse-checkout: |
benchmark/*.R
tools/nix/*.nix
*.nix
sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
- name: Download benchmark raw results
uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c # v8.0.1
with:
pattern: csv-*
merge-multiple: true
path: raw-results
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@8aa03977d8d733052d78f4e008a241fd1dbf36b3 # v31.10.6
with:
extra_nix_config: sandbox = true
- name: Benchmark results
run: |
nix-shell \
-I nixpkgs=./tools/nix/pkgs.nix \
--pure \
-E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).mkShell { buildInputs = import ./tools/nix/benchmarkTools.nix { withHttpBenchmarkDeps = false; }; }' \
--run '
export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
echo "> [!WARNING] "
echo "> Do not take GHA benchmark results as face value, always confirm them"
echo "> using a dedicated machine, e.g. Jenkins CI."
echo
echo "Benchmark results:"
echo
echo '"'"'```'"'"'
awk "FNR==1 && NR!=1{next;}{print}" raw-results/*.csv | Rscript benchmark/compare.R
echo '"'"'```'"'"'
echo
echo "> [!WARNING] "
echo "> Do not take GHA benchmark results as face value, always confirm them"
echo "> using a dedicated machine, e.g. Jenkins CI."
' | tee /dev/stderr >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"