fix: fix execution requirements for 'build without the bytes' (#639)

.aspect/bazelrc/performance.bazelrc

@@ -27,12 +27,3 @@ build --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories
 # author.
 # Docs: https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference#flag--legacy_external_runfiles
 build --nolegacy_external_runfiles
-
-# Some actions are always IO-intensive but require little compute. It's wasteful to put the output
-# in the remote cache, it just saturates the network and fills the cache storage causing earlier
-# evictions. It's also not worth sending them for remote execution.
-# For actions like PackageTar it's usually faster to just re-run the work locally every time.
-# You'll have to look at an execution log to figure out what other action mnemonics you care about.
-# In some cases you may need to patch rulesets to add a mnemonic to actions that don't have one.
-# https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference#flag--modify_execution_info
-build --modify_execution_info=PackageTar=+no-remote

lib/private/copy_common.bzl

@@ -17,63 +17,18 @@ def execution_requirements_for_copy(ctx):
     # If the rule ctx doesn't expose the CopyOptions, the default is to run locally
     return COPY_EXECUTION_REQUIREMENTS_LOCAL
 
-# When applied to execution_requirements of an action, these prevent the action from being
-# sandboxed or remotely cached, for performance of builds that don't rely on RBE and build-without-bytes.
+# When applied to execution_requirements of an action, these prevent the action from being sandboxed
+# for improved performance.
 COPY_EXECUTION_REQUIREMENTS_LOCAL = {
-    # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # no-remote       | Prevents the action or test from being executed remotely or cached remotely.
-    #                 | This is equivalent to using both `no-remote-cache` and `no-remote-exec`.
-    # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # no-remote-cache | Results in the action or test never being cached remotely (but it may
-    #                 | be cached locally; it may also be executed remotely). Note: for the purposes
-    #                 | of this tag, the disk-cache is considered a local cache, whereas the http
-    #                 | and gRPC caches are considered remote. If a combined cache is specified
-    #                 | (i.e. a cache with local and remote components), it's treated as a remote
-    #                 | cache and disabled entirely unless --incompatible_remote_results_ignore_disk
-    #                 | is set in which case the local components will be used.
-    # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # no-remote-exec  | Results in the action or test never being executed remotely (but it may be
-    #                 | cached remotely).
-    # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # no-cache        | Results in the action or test never being cached (remotely or locally)
     # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # no-sandbox      | Results in the action or test never being sandboxed; it can still be cached
-    #                 | or run remotely - use no-cache or no-remote to prevent either or both of
-    #                 | those.
-    # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # local           | Precludes the action or test from being remotely cached, remotely executed,
-    #                 | or run inside the sandbox. For genrules and tests, marking the rule with the
-    #                 | local = True attribute has the same effect.
+    #                 | or run remotely.
     # ----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # See https://bazel.google.cn/reference/be/common-definitions?hl=en&authuser=0#common-attributes
     #
-    # Copying file & directories is entirely IO-bound and there is no point doing this work
-    # remotely.
-    #
-    # Also, remote-execution does not allow source directory inputs, see
-    # https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/c64421bc35214f0414e4f4226cc953e8c55fa0d2 So we must
-    # not attempt to execute remotely in that case.
-    #
-    # There is also no point pulling the output file or directory from the remote cache since the
-    # bytes to copy are already available locally. Conversely, no point in writing to the cache if
-    # no one has any reason to check it for this action.
-    #
-    # Read and writing to disk cache is disabled as well primarily to reduce disk usage on the local
-    # machine. A disk cache hit of a directory copy could be slghtly faster than a copy since the
-    # disk cache stores the directory artifact as a single entry, but the slight performance bump
-    # comes at the cost of heavy disk cache usage, which is an unmanaged directory that grow beyond
-    # the bounds of the physical disk.
-    # TODO: run benchmarks to measure the impact on copy_directory
-    #
-    # Sandboxing for this action is wasteful as well since there is a 1:1 mapping of input
-    # file/directory to output file/directory and no room for non-hermetic inputs to sneak in to the
-    # input.
-    "no-remote": "1",
-    "no-remote-cache": "1",
-    "no-remote-exec": "1",
-    "no-cache": "1",
+    # Sandboxing for this action is wasteful since there is a 1:1 mapping of input file/directory to
+    # output file/directory so little room for non-hermetic inputs to sneak in to the execution.
     "no-sandbox": "1",
-    "local": "1",
 }
 
 def progress_path(f):

lib/tests/bazelrc_presets/all/performance.bazelrc

@@ -27,12 +27,3 @@ build --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories
 # author.
 # Docs: https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference#flag--legacy_external_runfiles
 build --nolegacy_external_runfiles
-
-# Some actions are always IO-intensive but require little compute. It's wasteful to put the output
-# in the remote cache, it just saturates the network and fills the cache storage causing earlier
-# evictions. It's also not worth sending them for remote execution.
-# For actions like PackageTar it's usually faster to just re-run the work locally every time.
-# You'll have to look at an execution log to figure out what other action mnemonics you care about.
-# In some cases you may need to patch rulesets to add a mnemonic to actions that don't have one.
-# https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference#flag--modify_execution_info
-build --modify_execution_info=PackageTar=+no-remote

lib/tests/copy_to_directory_bin_action/BUILD.bazel

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ copy_directory(
     name = "tree_artifact",
     src = "ds",
     out = "dsc",
+    # RBE not happy with the symlinks in this test case
+    tags = ["no-remote"],
 )
 
 lib(
@@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ pkg(
         ":tree_artifact",
     ],
     out = "pkg",
+    # RBE not happy with the symlinks in this test case
+    tags = ["no-remote"],
     target_compatible_with = select({
         # D:/a/bazel-lib/bazel-lib/lib/tests/copy_to_directory_bin_action/BUILD.bazel:36:4:
         # declared output 'lib/tests/copy_to_directory_bin_action/pkg_symlink_0' is not a symlink
@@ -59,6 +63,8 @@ diff_test(
     name = "test",
     file1 = ":pkg",
     file2 = ":expected_pkg",
+    # RBE not happy with the symlinks in this test case
+    tags = ["no-remote"],
 )
 
 bzl_library(