fix: ensure local results directories exist before rsync

Adds file module tasks to create destination directories before
ansible.posix.synchronize operations to prevent rsync failures when
parent directories don't exist. Fixes "No such file or directory"
errors during result collection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <mtahhan@redhat.com>

Author: maryamtahhan

automation/test-execution/ansible/collect-sweep-results.yml

@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@
     # from the remote load generator to the local ansible controller.
     # Each test run has its own directory on the remote (organized by test_run_id),
     # so we only sync results from this specific test run.
+    - name: Ensure local results directory exists
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../../../results/llm/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}"
+        state: directory
+        mode: "0755"
+      delegate_to: localhost
+
     - name: Fetch all core sweep results for this test run
       ansible.posix.synchronize:
         src: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/"

automation/test-execution/ansible/embedding-benchmark.yml

@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@
     test_type: "{{ scenario | default('baseline') }}"
 
   tasks:
+    - name: Ensure local results directory exists
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../../../results/embedding/{{ model_name | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ test_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}"
+        state: directory
+        mode: "0755"
+      delegate_to: localhost
+
     - name: Fetch results to local machine
       ansible.posix.synchronize:
         src: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ model_name | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ test_type }}/"

automation/test-execution/ansible/llm-benchmark-auto.yml

@@ -280,6 +280,14 @@
 
     # Skip result fetching when running as part of a core sweep
     # The collect-sweep-results.yml playbook will fetch all results at once
+    - name: Ensure local results directory exists
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../../../results/llm/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/{{ core_configuration.name }}"
+        state: directory
+        mode: "0755"
+      delegate_to: localhost
+      when: is_core_sweep is not defined or not is_core_sweep
+
     - name: Fetch results to local machine
       ansible.posix.synchronize:
         src: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/{{ core_configuration.name }}/"

automation/test-execution/ansible/llm-benchmark.yml

@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@
           }
         dest: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/{{ core_configuration.name }}/test-metadata.json"
 
+    - name: Ensure local results directory exists
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../../../results/llm/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/{{ core_configuration.name }}"
+        state: directory
+        mode: "0755"
+      delegate_to: localhost
+
     - name: Fetch results to local machine
       ansible.posix.synchronize:
         src: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}/{{ core_configuration.name }}/"

automation/test-execution/ansible/llm-core-sweep-auto.yml

@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@
 
   tasks:
     - block:
+        - name: Ensure local results directory exists
+          ansible.builtin.file:
+            path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/../../../results/llm/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}-{{ test_run_id }}"
+            state: directory
+            mode: "0755"
+          delegate_to: localhost
+
         - name: Fetch all core sweep results
           ansible.posix.synchronize:
             src: "{{ bench_config.results_dir }}/{{ test_model | replace('/', '__') }}/{{ workload_type }}/"