build: use smaller instances for gn-check (#43360)

build: use smaller instances for gn-check (#43187)

Co-authored-by: Samuel Attard <sam@electronjs.org>

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-macos
     with:
       build-runs-on: macos-14-xlarge
+      check-runs-on: macos-14
       test-runs-on: macos-13
       target-platform: macos
       target-arch: x64
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-macos
     with:
       build-runs-on: macos-14-xlarge
+      check-runs-on: macos-14
       test-runs-on: macos-14
       target-platform: macos
       target-arch: arm64
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-linux
     with:
       build-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-32core
+      check-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-8core
       test-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-4core
       build-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root","volumes":["/mnt/cross-instance-cache:/mnt/cross-instance-cache"]}'
       test-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root --privileged --init"}'
@@ -192,6 +195,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-linux
     with:
       build-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-32core
+      check-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-8core
       test-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-4core
       build-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root","volumes":["/mnt/cross-instance-cache:/mnt/cross-instance-cache"]}'
       test-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root --privileged --init"}'
@@ -213,6 +217,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-linux
     with:
       build-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-32core
+      check-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-8core
       test-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-arm64-4core
       build-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root","volumes":["/mnt/cross-instance-cache:/mnt/cross-instance-cache"]}'
       test-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/test:arm32v7-${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root --privileged --init","volumes":["/home/runner/externals:/mnt/runner-externals"]}'
@@ -233,6 +238,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: checkout-linux
     with:
       build-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-32core
+      check-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-amd64-8core
       test-runs-on: electron-arc-linux-arm64-4core
       build-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/build:${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root","volumes":["/mnt/cross-instance-cache:/mnt/cross-instance-cache"]}'
       test-container: '{"image":"ghcr.io/electron/test:arm64v8-${{ needs.checkout-linux.outputs.build-image-sha }}","options":"--user root --privileged --init"}'

.github/workflows/pipeline-electron-build-and-test-and-nan.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ on:
         type: string
         description: 'What host to run the build'
         required: true
+      check-runs-on:
+        type: string
+        description: 'What host to run the gn-check'
+        required: true
       test-runs-on:
         type: string
         description: 'What host to run the tests on'
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       target-platform: ${{ inputs.target-platform }}
       target-arch: ${{ inputs.target-arch }}
-      check-runs-on: ${{ inputs.build-runs-on }}
+      check-runs-on: ${{ inputs.check-runs-on }}
       check-container: ${{ inputs.build-container }}
       gn-build-type: ${{ inputs.gn-build-type }}
       is-asan: ${{ inputs.is-asan }}

.github/workflows/pipeline-electron-build-and-test.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ on:
         type: string
         description: 'What host to run the build'
         required: true
+      check-runs-on:
+        type: string
+        description: 'What host to run the gn-check'
+        required: true
       test-runs-on:
         type: string
         description: 'What host to run the tests on'
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       target-platform: ${{ inputs.target-platform }}
       target-arch: ${{ inputs.target-arch }}
-      check-runs-on: ${{ inputs.build-runs-on }}
+      check-runs-on: ${{ inputs.check-runs-on }}
       check-container: ${{ inputs.build-container }}
       gn-build-type: ${{ inputs.gn-build-type }}
       is-asan: ${{ inputs.is-asan }}