So whats needed to build out that 'framework'?

Is it just dispatching provision requests to nova, and then seeing when the quota becomes out of sync, and then backtracking through logs and notifications (+- other) to then figure out the root cause?

Or is that framework some kind of local functional testing built-in to nova itself, something that can work without probing via the REST endpoints...?

IMHO it'd be nice to have something like rally scenarios that probe the quota (via REST or not) but with post-validation that can be done on the post scenario run and/or post request run. The post-validation ensures the quota is as expected, using some locally computed 'expected' quota that nova should also have locally computed, if those two computed 'expected' quotas are different, then backtracking/log analysis... needs to occur to figure out when the computed values started to diverge (and to figure out why they diverged); rinse and repeat that and u probably have a pretty powerful validation framework...

Vilobh Meshram wrote:
I am highly supportive for the idea of Nova Quota sub-team, for
something as complex as Quota, as it helps to move quickly on reviews
and changes.

Agree with John, a test framework to test quotas will be helpful and can
be one of the first task the Nova Quota sub team can focus on as that
will lay the foundation for whether the bugs mentioned here
http://bit.ly/1Pbr8YL are valid or not.

Having worked in the area of Quotas for a while now by introducing
features like Cinder Nested Quota Driver [1] [2] I strongly feel that
something like a Nova Quota sub-team will definitely help. Mentioning
about Cinder Quota driver since it was accepted in Mitaka design summit
that Nova Nested Quota Driver[3] would like to pursue the route taken by
Cinder.  Since Nested quota is a one part of Quota subsystem and working
in small team helped to iterate quickly for Nested Quota
patches[4][5][6][7] so IMHO forming a Nova quota subteam will help.

Melanie,

If you can share the details of the bug that Joe mentioned, to reproduce
quota bugs locally, it would be helpful.

-Vilobh (irc: vilobhmm)

[1] Code : https://review.openstack.org/#/c/205369/
[2] Blueprint :
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/cinder-nested-quota-driver
[3] Nova Nested Quota Spec : https://review.openstack.org/#/c/209969/
[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242568/
[5] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242500/
[6] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242514/
[7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/242626/


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:59 AM, melanie witt <melwi...@gmail.com
<mailto:melwi...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    On Nov 26, 2015, at 9:36, John Garbutt <j...@johngarbutt.com
    <mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com>> wrote:

    >  A suggestion in the past, that I like, is creating a nova functional
    >  test that stress tests the quota code.
    >
    >  Hopefully that will be able to help reproduce the error.
    >  That should help prove if any proposed fix actually works.

    +1, I think it's wise to get some data on the current state of
    quotas before choosing a redesign. IIRC, Joe Gordon described a test
    scenario he used to use to reproduce quota bugs locally, in one of
    the launchpad bugs. If we could automate something like that, we
    could use it to demonstrate how quotas currently behave during
    parallel requests and try things like disabling reservations. I also
    like the idea of being able to verify the effects of proposed fixes.

    -melanie (irc: melwitt)






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