build: add thin-LTO release-dev profile for iteration builds - #976
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The release profile's fat LTO + codegen-units=1 serializes the whole LTO stage onto one core: a cold build of the aisix binary takes 6m37s wall on a 12-core host. PGO retraining pays this twice per cycle, because the changed RUSTFLAGS invalidates every fingerprint, so the instrumented and optimized builds are both full rebuilds. Add a release-dev profile inheriting release, with lto = "thin" and codegen-units = 16, so the LTO stage parallelizes: the same cold build finishes in 2m27s at 914% average CPU on the same host (2.7x faster). The profile comment pins the discipline: functionally identical output, slightly less optimized — any number that is reported, compared against a baseline, or fed into the saturation grid must come from --release, never from release-dev.
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds a faster local build profile and updates benchmark runners; it is mergeable with owner awareness that the runners must stop on build failure and use the freshly built release binary to prevent misleading benchmark results. Possibly related PRs
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214-217: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise
release-devin CI.No tracked CI job or documented step invokes
release-dev. The existing builds selectdevorrelease;--releasedoes not select this custom profile. Addcargo build --locked --profile release-dev --bin aisix, or document an equivalent verification step.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 211-213: Update the performance comment near the release-dev
profile to make its claim reproducible: either document the benchmark command,
host, and warm/cold-build condition for the link-heavy rebuild measurement, or
revise the wording to match the recorded 6m37s release versus 2m27s release-dev
figures.
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In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 214-217: Add CI coverage or a documented verification step that
explicitly builds the aisix binary with Cargo’s release-dev profile, using the
locked dependency option and the release-dev profile selection; do not rely on
--release, which selects the standard release profile.
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Review of #976 flagged that run-baseline.sh and run-decay.sh trust target/release/aisix to be fresh: the only check was the executable bit. That held while iteration and measurement builds shared the release profile; with release-dev absorbing iteration builds, a stale release binary becomes a silent way to publish numbers for the wrong commit. Rebuild in the sanity section instead — a no-op when the binary is already current — and fail loudly if the build cannot run. Also reword the release-dev comment to claim only what was measured (cold builds: 6m37s fat vs 2m27s thin) instead of an unmeasured incremental-rebuild figure.
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Independent pre-merge audit (per repo rule 8) — verdict: approve; 1 MEDIUM, 2 LOW. All resolved or justified below.
No findings on correctness, reliability (no leak path of |
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Closing per the measured verdict: the 2×2 in the description shows PGO+thin trailing PGO+fat by ~5–7% on the probe rig — outside the ±2% decision band — so |
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What
Adds a
release-devcargo profile: inheritsrelease, flipslto = "fat"→"thin"andcodegen-units = 1→16. One file, 11 lines, purely additive — the shippedreleaseprofile is untouched. A follow-up commit hardens the bench run scripts' sanity gate (see below).Status: on hold pending a profile-matrix decision — the LTO×PGO 2×2 was measured on the x86 probe rig (2026-08-14); results below.
Why
Fat LTO + CU=1 serializes the whole LTO stage onto a single core. That is the right trade for shipped artifacts (measured per-request win, #939), but every link-heavy local rebuild pays minutes of single-threaded work, and the PGO pipeline (#975) pays it twice per training cycle: the changed
RUSTFLAGSinvalidates every fingerprint, so the instrumented and optimized builds are both full rebuilds.Build-time measurements (same 12-core host, cold builds,
--bin aisix)release(fat, CU=1)release-dev(thin, CU=16)Runtime: the LTO×PGO 2×2 (x86 probe rig, 0:128 grid, in-batch anchors, drift +0.24% / −0.07%)
Each cell normalized to its own batch anchor. Two findings:
release-devto halve pipeline time — that suggestion is withdrawn: instrumented and optimized legs must use the same profile, exactly as the Dockerfile already does.Discipline pinned in the profile comment
release-devoutput is functionally identical but less optimized (−9.9% without PGO). Any number that is reported, compared against a baseline, or fed into the saturation grid must come from--release, never from this profile.Open decision
Whether
release-devships at all is under discussion (single-profile preference vs the measured 5–7% cost of flippingreleaseto thin). The bench sanity-gate commit stands on its own either way.