Narrow CI to 3 optimized runners and force AVX2 on Windows

[hoffmang9]

Summary

• keep test.yaml to three optimized runners (macOS Intel, Ubuntu, Windows)
• add a short 2weso_test 100 run before the full 2weso_test
• reduce vdf_bench iterations to 10,000 and force AVX2 on Windows via CHIA_FORCE_AVX2=1

Purpose

Reproduce and monitor forced-AVX2 behavior in CI while keeping cycle time short.

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Medium Risk
Touches concurrency-sensitive proof/checkpoint publishing logic (mutex removal + atomic ordering) and significantly changes CI/security signal by disabling multiple workflows.

Overview
CI is heavily narrowed/paused. Most GitHub Actions workflows (build.yml, build-c-libraries.yml, build-riscv64.yml, rust.yml, codeql-analysis.yml, dependency-review.yml, check-commit-signing.yml, hw-build.yml, stale-issue.yml) now have jobs gated behind if: ${{ false }}, effectively disabling them.

test.yaml is reduced to a small optimized-only matrix and tweaked for faster perf triage: 2weso_test is run as a short smoke (10 iters), prover_test is always run in fast mode, vdf_bench load is reduced, and Windows gains a repeated benchmark harness that writes parsed metrics to the step summary and uploads them as artifacts.

For perf investigation, a new CHIAVDF_PERF_TRACE flag adds machine-readable tracing in vdf_bench and extra AVX dispatch diagnostics in init_avx_flags(). Separately, TwoWesolowskiCallback removes a mutex in favor of atomics with explicit publish/consume semantics, and consumers (TwoWesolowskiProver/ProveTwoWeso) now wait for checkpoints to be published before reading forms to avoid races.

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Missing stop_signal check causes crash in GetForm

High Severity

TwoWesolowskiProver::GetForm exits its spin-wait loop when stop_signal becomes true, then unconditionally calls weso->GetFormCopy(power). The new GetFormCopy throws std::runtime_error when IsPublished(power) is false. Since GenerateProof runs in a std::thread with no surrounding try-catch, this unhandled exception triggers std::terminate, crashing the entire process. The analogous code in vdf.h correctly checks stop_signal after the wait loop and returns early before calling GetFormCopy.

Additional Locations (1)

• src/callback.h#L169-L173

 

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CHIA_FORCE_AVX2 removed despite PR claiming to use it

Medium Severity

The PR title and description state the goal is to "force AVX2 on Windows via CHIA_FORCE_AVX2=1", but this commit removes all support for CHIA_FORCE_AVX2 from parameters.h (the force_avx2 variable and its else if branch) and from the README.md. The env var is also never set in the CI workflow. The stated purpose of reproducing forced-AVX2 behavior in CI cannot be achieved with these changes.

Additional Locations (1)

• README.md#L73-L75

 

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Redundant function duplicates existing helper with different behavior

Low Severity

The new perf_trace_enabled() in vdf_bench.cpp duplicates should_perf_trace() already available from the included parameters.h, but with subtly different logic. perf_trace_enabled() only rejects '0' as falsy, so values like "N", "no", or "false" are treated as true. env_flag() (used by should_perf_trace()) correctly treats 'n'/'N'/'f'/'F' as false. This inconsistency means the same CHIAVDF_PERF_TRACE env var could enable tracing in vdf_bench but not in init_avx_flags.

Additional Locations (1)

• src/parameters.h#L65-L68