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The Native UI layout job ran all 104 cases one after another on a 4-vCPU GitHub runner and took about 57 minutes. Every case draws its frames in software with Mesa llvmpipe, at about 10 ms per frame and roughly 3,000 frames per Library or Settings case. Almost all of that time was CPU-bound rendering.

Parallel runner. tests/ui_layout/run.sh now reads OPENNOW_UI_JOBS and runs that many cases at once. Each case gets its own Xvfb display number, so concurrent xvfb-run calls don't race for a display. Failures are collected from every case, and any failure still makes the script exit nonzero. The default stays at one case at a time.

CI matrix. The job now runs as six groups: one per screen, with guest/empty cases added to the overlay group. All six run on blacksmith-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404, use LP_NUM_THREADS=1, and run one case per vCPU. Each group uploads its own evidence artifact. The case set is unchanged, so the six groups together cover the same 104 cases.

On a 4-core machine, the 16 overlay cases took 110 s run one at a time and 32 s run four at a time. When the cases fail, the runner still reports all 16 failures and exits 1.

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    • UI layout checks now run in parallel across six groups, with isolated display sessions for each case.
    • Failed layout checks are reported through the test run’s exit status.
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    • Updated UI testing guidance with software-rendering and parallel-run configuration details, including the setup used in continuous integration.

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The UI layout script now schedules test cases concurrently on numbered Xvfb displays. CI divides the cases into six matrix groups, sets parallelism for builds and tests, and uses distinct evidence artifact names for each matrix job.

Changes: UI layout test parallelization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Schedule UI layout cases
tests/ui_layout/run.sh
The script limits concurrent cases with OPENNOW_UI_JOBS, assigns each case a numbered Xvfb display, records failures, and exits with status 1 when failures occur.
Configure CI matrix execution
.github/workflows/host-tests.yml, tests/ui_layout/README.md
The workflow runs six test groups on 8-vCPU runners, sets build and test parallelism, and names evidence artifacts by matrix job index. The README documents the parallel-run settings and CI grouping.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant run_sh as tests/ui_layout/run.sh
  participant xvfb_run as xvfb-run
  participant UIcase
  GitHubActions->>run_sh: Pass matrix arguments and parallelism settings
  loop Each selected case
    run_sh->>xvfb_run: Run case on numbered display
    xvfb_run->>UIcase: Execute UI case
    UIcase-->>run_sh: Return exit status
  end
  run_sh->>run_sh: Record failures and return script status
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Normal CI settings remain usable, but an invalid parallelism setting can hang a layout-test run. Validate the setting before scheduling.

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- Line 15: Validate OPENNOW_UI_JOBS immediately after assigning parallel_cases
and before the scheduling loop: reject values that are not positive integers or
exceed Bash’s arithmetic range, and exit with an error before scheduling. Keep
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fi
if (( $# )); then scenarios=("$@"); else scenarios=(library store settings detail queue overlay); fi
status=0
parallel_cases="${OPENNOW_UI_JOBS:-1}"

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '1,110p' tests/ui_layout/run.sh

Repository: OpenCloudGaming/OpenNOW-Switch

Length of output: 3119


🏁 Script executed:

set +e
printf '%s\n' '--- references ---'
rg -n -F -- 'OPENNOW_UI_JOBS' . || test "$?" -eq 1

printf '%s\n' '--- bash arithmetic probe ---'
for value in '' 0 1 2 abc foo 12abc -1 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 18446744073709551615; do
    result="$(
        VALUE="$value" bash --noprofile --norc -c '
            set -euo pipefail
            parallel_cases="${VALUE:-1}"
            if (( 0 >= parallel_cases )); then
                outcome=wait
            else
                outcome=launch
            fi
            printf "value=<%s> assigned=<%s> outcome=<%s>\n" "$VALUE" "$parallel_cases" "$outcome"
        ' 2>&1
    )"
    status=$?
    printf 'status=%s %s\n' "$status" "$result"
done

printf '%s\n' '--- bounded no-job wait-loop probe ---'
for value in 0 abc 9223372036854775808; do
    VALUE="$value" timeout 1 bash --noprofile --norc -c '
        set -euo pipefail
        parallel_cases="${VALUE:-1}"
        iterations=0
        while (( $(jobs -rp | wc -l) >= parallel_cases )); do
            iterations=$((iterations + 1))
            (( iterations >= 3 )) && break
            wait -n || true
        done
        printf "value=<%s> iterations=<%s> exited_loop=<%s>\n" "$VALUE" "$iterations" "$?"
    ' 2>&1
    printf 'status=%s\n' "$?"
done

Repository: OpenCloudGaming/OpenNOW-Switch

Length of output: 1412


🏁 Script executed:

nl -ba tests/ui_layout/README.md | sed -n '35,58p'

Repository: OpenCloudGaming/OpenNOW-Switch

Length of output: 1872


Validate OPENNOW_UI_JOBS before the wait loop.

OPENNOW_UI_JOBS=0 makes the scheduler wait with no running jobs. wait -n fails, but || true hides the error, so the loop can hang.

The original abc example is not accurate: with set -u, Bash exits on that value. Other malformed values can bypass the throttle, and positive values outside Bash's arithmetic range can wrap and cause the same empty wait loop.

Reject invalid values before scheduling. The positive-integer regex also needs a bound check for the shell's arithmetic range. The README defines the value as a concurrency count but does not define behavior for invalid input, so fail-fast handling is an appropriate convention.

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Review comment at @tests/ui_layout/run.sh at line 15:
Validate OPENNOW_UI_JOBS immediately after assigning parallel_cases and before
the scheduling loop: reject values that are not positive integers or exceed
Bash’s arithmetic range, and exit with an error before scheduling. Keep valid
concurrency counts on the existing scheduling path.

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