Don't count requeued test failures toward circuit breaker#378
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Reasoning sounds good to me, I'd prefer someone with internal knowledge to confirm if possible, but I think it's good to go.
report_failure! was called before the requeue check, so successfully requeued tests incremented the consecutive failure counter. With max_consecutive_failures=N and N+ deterministic failures that are all requeued, the circuit breaker fired prematurely and the worker exited, stranding requeued tests in the queue with no worker to process them. Now report_failure!/report_success! is only called when a test genuinely fails or passes. Requeued tests are invisible to the circuit breaker — they don't increment or reset the consecutive failure counter.
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Summary
the circuit breaker (max_consecutive_failures) was counting requeued test failures as real failures. this meant a worker that hit a few flaky tests in a row would get killed even though the tests were being retried, and if that was the last active worker, those requeued tests just sat in the queue forever. build would finish reporting 0 failures.
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report_failure!/report_success!after the requeue check inhandle_test_resultTradeoff
The tradeoff here is that workers which are legitimately in a corrupted state will requeue more tests than before, making a test suite more likely to fail rather than a worker being killed. Ultimately, the tradeoff is that this "less resilient to worker corruption" behavior is better than the current "can silently skip failing tests" behavior.