perf(perf-gate): warm-start a missed base build from the newest previous one - #1031
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe base-cache documentation now notes that frequent Priority: ⬇️ Low Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The warm-start can pick an older base build than intended, can move a regular file into the build-target path, and can disturb a concurrent perf run that shares the cache. The impact is limited to perf-gate tooling and recovers on a later build, but these gaps should be addressed or accepted before merge. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to An interrupted warm-start can leave an older executable under a new base revision’s cache key. A later run may treat it as a completed build and produce an incorrect performance-gate result. The identified impact is confined to this gate; no broader access or privilege change was established. Retained concerns
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In `@crates/batten/src/perf.rs`:
- Around line 615-618: Update the cache-selection logic using entry metadata so
it tracks successful build recency rather than the cache root’s potentially
stale modification time. Record a build-completion marker at the cache root and
select by that marker, keeping the existing fallback behavior where needed.
- Around line 613-615: Update the candidate filter in the `filter_map` chain to
keep only entries whose metadata indicates they are directories before comparing
modification times; reuse the metadata already read in that chain and preserve
the existing timestamp selection behavior.
- Line 620: Protect cache paths used by active perf-pair invocations from being
moved by the std::fs::rename call; coordinate cache selection through
measurement with an exclusive lock, or exclude actively used caches from rename
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| .filter(|entry| entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().starts_with("base-")) | ||
| .filter_map(|entry| { | ||
| let modified = entry.metadata().and_then(|meta| meta.modified()).ok()?; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Select only base target directories.
A recent regular file named base-notes passes the name and timestamp checks. The helper then renames that file to the requested target path. Cargo cannot use the file as CARGO_TARGET_DIR, and the file remains at the requested key for later runs. Filter candidates with metadata.is_dir() before comparing timestamps. Rust exposes this check on the metadata already read here. (doc.rust-lang.org)
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In `@crates/batten/src/perf.rs` around lines 613 - 615, Update the candidate
filter in the `filter_map` chain to keep only entries whose metadata indicates
they are directories before comparing modification times; reuse the metadata
already read in that chain and preserve the existing timestamp selection
behavior.
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| let modified = entry.metadata().and_then(|meta| meta.modified()).ok()?; | ||
| Some((modified, entry.path())) | ||
| }) | ||
| .max_by_key(|(modified, _)| *modified); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Track the latest build, not the directory's original modification time.
When a cache is renamed and Cargo rebuilds files under release/, the root directory can retain its older modification time. A later miss can therefore select an older sibling instead of the most recently built base, defeating the intended warm start. Record successful build recency at the cache root, or select using a reliable build-completion marker. Metadata::modified() reports the selected entry's modification time, not the completion time of its last build. (doc.rust-lang.org)
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In `@crates/batten/src/perf.rs` around lines 615 - 618, Update the cache-selection
logic using entry metadata so it tracks successful build recency rather than the
cache root’s potentially stale modification time. Record a build-completion
marker at the cache root and select by that marker, keeping the existing
fallback behavior where needed.
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| .max_by_key(|(modified, _)| *modified); | ||
| if let Some((_, previous)) = newest { | ||
| std::fs::rename(&previous, &target).with_context(|| { |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Protect active base caches from renames.
When two perf-pair invocations share perf_dir, one invocation can rename the sibling that another invocation built but has not measured. std::fs::rename moves that path, so the later measurement can fail when it starts the missing binary. Hold an exclusive lock from cache selection through measurement, or exclude caches used by active invocations from rename candidates.
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In `@crates/batten/src/perf.rs` at line 620, Protect cache paths used by active
perf-pair invocations from being moved by the std::fs::rename call; coordinate
cache selection through measurement with an exclusive lock, or exclude actively
used caches from rename candidates.
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…ous one The base arm's target dir is keyed by merge-base sha on the premise that consecutive PRs share a base for hours. Measured 2026-09-26, main moved several times an hour, so the key missed on almost every lap and each miss was a cold 3m46s release build inside a 38-minute verify. A miss now renames the newest previous base-* directory into place before building: the sha stays in the path, cargo's fingerprints decide what is stale, and a rename keeps disk flat. Refs: CLOUD-1891
…ate's other tests Refs: CLOUD-1891
…Windows The windows job failed the two seeding cases: File::open on a directory is refused there without FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, so the helper could not set the sibling's mtime. Type-checked against x86_64-pc-windows-gnu locally. Refs: CLOUD-1891
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verifycosts 2289s (38 min), measured onfff8eb06(CLOUD-1891). Of that, 3m46s isperf-gate's base-arm release build.base_target_dirkeys that build by merge-base sha, on the premise that consecutive PRs share a base for hours. Measured 2026-09-26,mainmoved several times an hour, release commits included. So the key missed on almost every lap, and each miss compiled cold into an empty directory.What
seed_base_target_dir: whenbase-<sha>is absent, rename the newest previousbase-*directory into place before building.battencrate, so the dependencies stay warm.mainhas moved past it.base_target_dirthat stated the false premise is corrected.Tests
a_missing_base_is_seeded_from_the_newest_previous_build. Shown red under its declared mutation (min_by_key, seeding from the oldest sibling): nextest exit 100.with_no_previous_build_nothing_is_created: the anti-vacuity case.a_present_key_is_left_alone.Correction to the CLOUD-1891 breakdown
Re-read against one lap, the "duplicated" builds in that table were not duplicates:
reference-check's 7m55s is the shared test build:testthen finished in 0.31s.cross-check's two builds are its two triples.This change is the build that actually repeated.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-1891
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