On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Irena Berezovsky <ire...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve, > Regarding SR-IOV testing, at Mellanox we have CI job running on bare metal > node with Mellanox SR-IOV NIC. This job is reporting on neutron patches. > Currently API tests are executed. > The contact person for SRIOV CI job is listed at driverlog: > > https://github.com/stackforge/driverlog/blob/master/etc/default_data.json#L1439 > > > The following items are in progress: > - SR-IOV functional testing > Where do you envision these tests living? > - Reporting CI job on nova patches > Looking forward to it. I assume you will be working with the other people trying to set up assorted CI systems in this space. > - Multi-node setup > It worth to mention that we want to start the collaboration on SR-IOV > testing effort as part of the pci pass-through subteam activity. > Please join the weekly meeting if you want to collaborate or have some > inputs: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Passthrough > > BR, > Irena > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Gordon [mailto:sgor...@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:11 PM > To: itai mendelsohn; Adrian Hoban; Russell Bryant; Ian Wells (iawells); > Irena Berezovsky; ba...@cisco.com > Cc: Nikola Đipanov; Russell Bryant; OpenStack Development Mailing List > (not for usage questions) > Subject: [Nova][Neutron][NFV][Third-party] CI for NUMA, SR-IOV, and other > features that can't be tested on current infra. > > Hi all, > > We had some discussions last week - particularly in the Nova NFV design > session [1] - on the subject of ensuring that telecommunications and > NFV-related functionality has adequate continuous integration testing. In > particular the focus here is on functionality that can't easily be tested > on the public clouds that back the gate, including: > > - NUMA (vCPU pinning, vCPU layout, vRAM layout, huge pages, I/O device > locality) > - SR-IOV with Intel, Cisco, and Mellanox devices (possibly others) > > In each case we need to confirm where we are at, and the plan going > forward, with regards to having: > > 1) Hardware to run the CI on. > 2) Tests that actively exercise the functionality (if not already in > existence). > 3) Point person for each setup to maintain it and report into the > third-party meeting [2]. > 4) Getting the jobs operational and reporting [3][4][5][6]. > > In the Nova session we discussed a goal of having the hardware by K-1 (Dec > 18) and having it reporting at least periodically by K-2 (Feb 5). I'm not > sure if similar discussions occurred on the Neutron side of the design > summit. > > SR-IOV > ====== > > Adrian and Irena mentioned they were already in the process of getting up > to speed with third party CI for their respective SR-IOV configurations. > Robert are you attempting similar with regards to Cisco devices? What is > the status of each of these efforts versus the four items I lifted above > and what do you need assistance with? > > NUMA > ==== > > We still need to identify some hardware to run third party CI for the > NUMA-related work, and no doubt other things that will come up. It's > expected that this will be an interim solution until OPNFV resources can be > used (note cdub jokingly replied 1-2 years when asked for a "rough" > estimate - I mention this because based on a later discussion some people > took this as a serious estimate). > > Ian did you have any luck kicking this off? Russell and I are also > endeavouring to see what we can do on our side w.r.t. this short term > approach - in particular if you find hardware we still need to find an > owner to actually setup and manage it as discussed. > > In theory to get started we need a physical multi-socket box and a virtual > machine somewhere on the same network to handle job control etc. I believe > the tests themselves can be run in VMs (just not those exposed by existing > public clouds) assuming a recent Libvirt and an appropriately crafted > Libvirt XML that ensures the VM gets a multi-socket topology etc. (we can > assist with this). > > Thanks, > > Steve > > [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-nova-nfv > [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ThirdParty > [3] http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html > [4] http://www.joinfu.com/2014/01/understanding-the-openstack-ci-system/ > [5] > http://www.joinfu.com/2014/02/setting-up-an-external-openstack-testing-system/ > [6] > http://www.joinfu.com/2014/02/setting-up-an-openstack-external-testing-system-part-2/ > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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