[CI] Avoid lint and ut for PR push (#5762)

1. Don't run lint and ut again once the PR is merged to save CI resource
2. Update codecov every 4 hour
3. rename `model_downloader` to suitable name
4. update schedule job to better time.

- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
2f4e6548ef

Signed-off-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+name: 'unit test'
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      vllm:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      runner:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      image:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      type:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  unit-test:
+    name: unit test
+    runs-on: ${{ inputs.runner }}
+    container:
+      image: ${{ inputs.image }}
+      env:
+        VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL: ERROR
+        VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE: True
+        SOC_VERSION: ascend910b1
+        MAX_JOBS: 4
+    steps:
+      - name: Install packages
+        run: |
+          sed -Ei 's@(ports|archive).ubuntu.com@cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local:8081@g' /etc/apt/sources.list
+          pip config set global.index-url http://cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local/pypi/simple
+          pip config set global.trusted-host cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local
+          apt-get update -y
+          apt-get install -y python3-pip git vim wget net-tools gcc g++ cmake libnuma-dev curl gnupg2
+
+      - name: Checkout vllm-project/vllm repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          repository: vllm-project/vllm
+          ref: ${{ inputs.vllm }}
+          path: ./vllm-empty
+
+      - name: Install vllm-project/vllm from source
+        working-directory: ./vllm-empty
+        run: |
+          VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=empty python3 -m pip install . --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
+          python3 -m pip uninstall -y triton
+
+      - name: Checkout vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Install vllm-project/vllm-ascend
+        run: |
+          export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/ascend/repos/pypi
+          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/x86_64-linux/devlib
+          python3 -m pip install -v . --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
+          python3 -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
+
+      - name: Install Ascend toolkit & triton_ascend
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          BISHENG_NAME="Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64_20260105.run"
+          BISHENG_URL="https://vllm-ascend.obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/vllm-ascend/${BISHENG_NAME}"
+          wget -O "${BISHENG_NAME}" "${BISHENG_URL}" && chmod a+x "${BISHENG_NAME}" && "./${BISHENG_NAME}" --install && rm "${BISHENG_NAME}"
+          export PATH=/usr/local/Ascend/tools/bishengir/bin:$PATH
+          python3 -m pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ triton-ascend==3.2.0.dev20260105
+
+      - name: Run unit test
+        env:
+          VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD: spawn
+          TORCH_DEVICE_BACKEND_AUTOLOAD: 0
+        run: |
+          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/x86_64-linux/devlib
+          pytest -sv --cov --cov-report=xml:unittests-coverage.xml tests/ut \
+            --ignore tests/ut/model_loader/netloader/test_netloader_elastic.py \
+            --ignore tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py \
+            --ignore tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py \
+            --ignore tests/ut/core/test_scheduler_dynamic_batch.py
+
+      - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
+        # only upload coverage when commits merged
+        if: ${{ inputs.type == 'schedule' }}
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
+        env:
+          CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          flags: unittests
+          name: vllm-ascend
+          verbose: true

.github/workflows/labled_test_310.yaml

@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@
 name: 310p Labeled Test
 
 on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v*'
   pull_request:
     types: [ labeled ]
 

.github/workflows/pr_test_light.yaml

@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@
 name: E2E-Light
 
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - 'main'
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - 'main'
@@ -80,82 +77,15 @@ jobs:
     name: unit test
     # only trigger unit test after lint passed and the change is e2e and ut related.
     if: ${{ needs.lint.result == 'success' && (needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.ut_tracker == 'true') }}
-    runs-on: linux-amd64-cpu-16-hk
-    container:
-      # fixme: vllm-ascend install failed with 8.3.rc2 on github action
-      image: quay.nju.edu.cn/ascend/cann:8.2.rc2-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
-      env:
-        VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL: ERROR
-        VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE: True
-        SOC_VERSION: ascend910b1
-        MAX_JOBS: 4
     strategy:
       matrix:
         vllm_version: [2f4e6548efec402b913ffddc8726230d9311948d, v0.13.0]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Install packages
-        run: |
-          sed -Ei 's@(ports|archive).ubuntu.com@cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local:8081@g' /etc/apt/sources.list
-          pip config set global.index-url http://cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local/pypi/simple
-          pip config set global.trusted-host cache-service.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local
-          apt-get update -y
-          apt-get install -y python3-pip git vim wget net-tools gcc g++ cmake libnuma-dev curl gnupg2
-
-      - name: Checkout vllm-project/vllm repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          repository: vllm-project/vllm
-          ref: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}
-          path: ./vllm-empty
-
-      - name: Install vllm-project/vllm from source
-        working-directory: ./vllm-empty
-        run: |
-          VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=empty python3 -m pip install . --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
-          python3 -m pip uninstall -y triton
-
-      - name: Checkout vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install vllm-project/vllm-ascend
-        run: |
-          export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/ascend/repos/pypi
-          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/x86_64-linux/devlib
-          python3 -m pip install -v . --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
-          python3 -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
-
-      - name: Install Ascend toolkit & triton_ascend
-        shell: bash -l {0}
-        run: |
-          BISHENG_NAME="Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64_20260105.run"
-          BISHENG_URL="https://vllm-ascend.obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/vllm-ascend/${BISHENG_NAME}"
-          wget -O "${BISHENG_NAME}" "${BISHENG_URL}" && chmod a+x "${BISHENG_NAME}" && "./${BISHENG_NAME}" --install && rm "${BISHENG_NAME}"
-          export PATH=/usr/local/Ascend/tools/bishengir/bin:$PATH
-          python3 -m pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ triton-ascend==3.2.0.dev20260105
-
-      - name: Run unit test
-        env:
-          VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD: spawn
-          TORCH_DEVICE_BACKEND_AUTOLOAD: 0
-        run: |
-          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/x86_64-linux/devlib
-          pytest -sv --cov --cov-report=xml:unittests-coverage.xml tests/ut \
-            --ignore tests/ut/model_loader/netloader/test_netloader_elastic.py \
-            --ignore tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py \
-            --ignore tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py \
-            --ignore tests/ut/core/test_scheduler_dynamic_batch.py
-
-      - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
-        # only upload coverage when commits merged
-        if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
-        env:
-          CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-        with:
-          flags: unittests
-          name: vllm-ascend
-          verbose: true
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml
+    with:
+      vllm: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}
+      runner: linux-amd64-cpu-16-hk
+      image: quay.nju.edu.cn/ascend/cann:8.2.rc2-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      type: pr
 
   e2e-light:
     name: e2e-light

.github/workflows/schedule_codecov_refresh.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# This file is a part of the vllm-ascend project.
+#
+name: Refresh codecov
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # UTC+8: 8am, 12pm, 16pm
+    - cron: '0 0,4,8 * * *'
+
+# Bash shells do not use ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc so these shells need to be explicitly
+# declared as "shell: bash -el {0}" on steps that need to be properly activated.
+# It's used to activate ascend-toolkit environment variables.
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash -el {0}
+
+jobs:
+  refresh-codecov:
+    name: refresh codecov
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        vllm_version: [2f4e6548efec402b913ffddc8726230d9311948d]
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml
+    with:
+      vllm: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}
+      runner: linux-amd64-cpu-16-hk
+      image: quay.nju.edu.cn/ascend/cann:8.2.rc2-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      type: schedule

.github/workflows/schedule_image_build_and_push.yaml

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 name: Image Build and Push
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 */4 * * *'
+    # UTC+8: 8am, 12pm, 16pm, 22pm
+    - cron: '0 0,4,8,14 * * *'
   push:
     tags:
       - 'v*'

.github/workflows/schedule_nightly_image_build.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ name: Nightly Image Build Schedule
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 0,4,8,12,15 * * *'
+    # UTC+8: 20pm, 23pm
+    - cron: '0 12,15 * * *'
 
 # This workflow builds and pushes Docker images for nightly-ci
 # It will be built base on the quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:main

.github/workflows/schedule_release_code_and_wheel.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ name: Release Code and Wheel
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 */4 * * *'
+    # UTC+8: 10am, 16pm
+    - cron: '0 2,8 * * *'
   push:
     tags:
       - 'v*'

.github/workflows/schedule_test_vllm_main.yaml

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 name: vLLM Main Schedule Test
 
 on:
-  # Run full e2e tests per 4h
+  # Run full e2e tests UTC+8: 10am, 16pm, 22pm, 4am
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 */4 * * *'
+    - cron: '0 2,8,14,20 * * *'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 # Bash shells do not use ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc so these shells need to be explicitly