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What this changes

Each jtreg shard now runs its tests slowest first, in the order the split already sorts them. Before, a shard ran its tests in file order, so a test of several minutes could start near the end and hold the shard up long after the others finished. In the last full run the shards spent 377 to 643 s on tests that should have taken about the same time.

times.tsv also gets the times of that run (the 1,008 listed tests; other entries keep theirs), so the split matches current test times.

findTests also drops a file named twice, by a directory and a file in it, so a local run does not run its tests twice at once.

Tests

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• Simulated with times.tsv (8 shards, 4 jobs each): the slowest shard drops from about 525 s in file order to about 428 s slowest first; the slowest single test is 291 s.
• This PR's own CI ran the whole list (1,008 tests): the shards' test steps took 311 to 465 s, against 377 to 643 s in the last full run before it (fix(io): close the host stdout or stderr when Java closes descriptor 1 or 2 #82), and the run took 9 minutes instead of 12.

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  • Test runs now execute selected tests in slowest-first order, helping prevent a long-running test from being left until the end. This change affects test scheduling only; it does not change application behavior or add user-facing features.

The shard function now returns selected tests in sorted scheduling order. Its comments state that tests run slowest first and explain that this order prevents a long test from starting last.

Changes: jtreg shard scheduling

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Return tests in scheduling order scripts/jtreg/run.ts	The comments describe the slowest-first order. shard returns selected tests in that sorted order.

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Possibly related PRs

• Project516/java-web#36: Adds duration-based shard assignment and records test runtimes used for scheduling.
• Project516/java-web#14: Writes per-test runtimes to times.tsv, which provides timing data for ordering tests.
• Project516/java-web#12: Introduces shard selection in scripts/jtreg/run.ts.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review e879e

Overlapping test filters can cause concurrent runs of the same test to interfere and report false results. Deduplication is a bounded follow-up.

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_{A rabbit checks the sorted queue,
Slow tests hop ahead in view.
Each shard follows its timed-out trail,
No long test waits at the tail.
Then carrots crown the passing run.}

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The PR changes the jtreg shard execution order from file order to slowest-first within each shard. The sharding algorithm already assigns tests to shards in slowest-first order (greedy load balancing); this change makes each shard run its assigned tests in that same order, preventing a long test from starting last and holding up the shard. The times.tsv file is also updated with current test durations.

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Review comments at @scripts/jtreg/run.ts:
- Line 645: Deduplicate selected tests by test ID in the
`order.map(...).filter(...)` flow before calculating shard splits, so
overlapping directory and file filters schedule each test only once while
preserving the existing ordering.

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The PR makes jtreg shards run their assigned tests slowest-first (matching the split order) instead of file order, preventing a long test from starting last and holding up the shard. It also deduplicates test files in findTests when a directory and a file within it are both passed, and updates times.tsv with current test times. The changes are small and focused.

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