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Over the last 7 days, git pulls represented a total of 1.7 TB. On those 1.7 TB, we can see: - ~300 GB for the CI farm on hetzner - ~730 GB for the CI farm on packet.net - ~680 GB for the rest of the world We can not really change the rest of the world*, but we can certainly reduce the egress costs towards our CI farms. Right now, the gitlab runners are not doing a good job at caching the git trees for the various jobs we make, and we end up with a lot of cache-misses. A typical pipeline ends up with a good 2.8GB of git pull data. (a compressed archive of the mesa folder accounts for 280MB) In this patch, we implemented what was suggested in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215591#note_334642576 - we host a brand new MinIO server on packet - jobs can upload files on 2 locations: * git-cache/<namespace>/<project>/<branch-name>.tar.gz * artifacts/<namespace>/<project>/<pipeline-id>/ - the authorization is handled by gitlab with short tokens valid only for the time of the job is running - whenever a job runs, the runner are configured to execute (eval) $CI_PRE_CLONE_SCRIPT - this variable is set globally to download the current cache from the MinIO packet server, unpack it and replace the possibly out of date cache found on the runner - then git fetch is run by the runner, and only the delta between the upstream tree and the local tree gets pulled. We can rebuild the git cache in a schedule job (once a day seems sufficient), and then we can stop the cache miss entirely. First results showed that instead of pulling 280MB of data in my fork, I got a pull of only 250KB. That should help us. * arguably, there are other farms in the rest of the world, so hopefully we can change those too. Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <mdaenzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/5428>
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