sweet/common/harness.go

// Copyright 2021 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package common

import "os"

type BuildConfig struct {
	// BinDir is the path to the directory where all built binaries should be
	// placed.
	BinDir string

	// SrcDir is the path to the directory containing the benchmark's source
	// code, excluding benchmark code that is part of the Sweet repository.
	//
	// For instance, this directory would contain a pulled source repository.
	SrcDir string

	// BenchDir is the path to the benchmark's source directory in the Sweet
	// repository.
	BenchDir string
}

type RunConfig struct {
	// BinDir is the path to the directory containing the benchmark
	// binaries.
	BinDir string

	// TmpDir is the path to a dedicated scratch directory.
	//
	// This directory is empty at the beginning of each run.
	TmpDir string

	// AssetsDir is the path to the directory containing runtime assets
	// for the benchmark.
	//
	// AssistsDir is reconstructed for each run, so files within are safe
	// to mutate.
	AssetsDir string

	// Args is a set of additional command-line arguments to pass to the
	// primary benchmark binary (e.g. -dump-cores).
	//
	// The purpose of this field is to plumb through flags that all
	// benchmarks support, such as flags for generating CPU profiles and
	// such.
	Args []string

	// Results is the file to which benchmark results should be appended
	// in the Go benchmark format.
	Results *os.File
}

type Harness interface {
	// CheckPrerequisites checks benchmark-specific environment prerequisites
	// such as whether we're running as root or on a specific platform.
	//
	// Returns an error if any prerequisites are not met, nil otherwise.
	CheckPrerequisites() error

	// Get retrieves the source code for a benchmark and places it in srcDir.
	Get(srcDir string) error

	// Build builds a benchmark and places the binaries in binDir.
	Build(cfg *Config, b *BuildConfig) error

	// Run runs the given benchmark and writes Go `testing` formatted benchmark
	// output to `results`.
	Run(cfg *Config, r *RunConfig) error
}