Re: [openstack-dev] [rally][users]: Synchronizing between multiple scenario instances.

2014-10-23 Thread Behzad Dastur (bdastur)
Hi Boris,
I am still getting my feet wet with rally so some concepts are new, and did not 
quite get your statement regarding the different load generators. I am 
presuming you are referring to the Scenario runner and the different “types” of 
runs.

What I was looking at is the runner, where we specify the type, times and 
concurrency.  We could have an additional field(s) which would specify the 
synchronization property.

Essentially, what I have found most useful in the cases where we run 
scenarios/tests in parallel;  is some sort of “barrier”, where at a certain 
point in the run you want all the parallel tasks to reach a specific point 
before continuing.

Also, I am also considering cases where synchronization is needed within a 
single benchmark case, where the same benchmark scenario:
creates some vms, performs some tasks, deletes the vm

Just for simplicity as a POC, I tried something with shared memory 
(multiprocessing.Value), which looks something like this:

class Barrier(object):
__init__(self, concurrency)
self.shmem = multiprocessing.Value(‘I’, concurrency)
self.lock = multiprocessing.Lock()

def wait_at_barrier ():
   while self.shmem.value > 0:
   time.sleep(1)
   return

def decrement_shm_concurrency_cnt ():
 with self.lock:
 self.shmem.value -=  1


And from the scenario, it can be called as:

scenario:
 -- do some action –
  barrobj.decrement_shm_concurrency_cnt()
 sync_helper.wait_at_barrier()
-- do some action –   <-- all processes will do this action at almost the same 
time.

I would be happy to discuss more to get a good common solution.

regards,
Behzad





From: bo...@pavlovic.ru [mailto:bo...@pavlovic.ru] On Behalf Of Boris Pavlovic
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:23 PM
To: Behzad Dastur (bdastur)
Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Pradeep 
Chandrasekar (pradeech); John Wei-I Wu (weiwu)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [rally][users]: Synchronizing between multiple 
scenario instances.

Behzad,

Unfortunately at this point there is no support of locking between scenarios.


It will be quite tricky for implementation, because we have different load 
generators, and we will need to find
common solutions for all of them.

If you have any ideas about how to implement it in such way, I will be more 
than happy to get this in upstream.


One of the way that I see is to having some kind of chain-of-benchmarks:

1) Like first benchmark is running N VMs
2) Second benchmarking is doing something with all those benchmarks
3) Third benchmark is deleting all these VMs

(where chain elements are atomic actions)

Probably this will be better long term solution.
Only thing that we should understand is how to store those results and how to 
display them.


If you would like to help with this let's start discussing it, in some kind of 
google docs.

Thoughts?


Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Behzad Dastur (bdastur) 
mailto:bdas...@cisco.com>> wrote:
Does rally provide any synchronization mechanism to synchronize between 
multiple scenario, when running in parallel? Rally spawns multiple processes, 
with each process running the scenario.  We need a way to synchronize between 
these to start a perf test operation at the same time.


regards,
Behzad


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[openstack-dev] [rally][users]: Synchronizing between multiple scenario instances.

2014-10-21 Thread Behzad Dastur (bdastur)
Does rally provide any synchronization mechanism to synchronize between 
multiple scenario, when running in parallel? Rally spawns multiple processes, 
with each process running the scenario.  We need a way to synchronize between 
these to start a perf test operation at the same time.


regards,
Behzad

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Re: [openstack-dev] [rally][users]

2014-10-20 Thread Behzad Dastur (bdastur)
Hi Boris,
Does rally provide any synchronization mechanism to synchronize between 
multiple scenario, when running in parallel? Rally spawns multiple processes, 
with each process running the scenario.  We need a way to synchronize between 
these to start a perf test operation at the same time.


regards,
Behzad



From: Boris Pavlovic [mailto:bpavlo...@mirantis.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:24 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [rally][users]

Ajay,

Ya adding support of  benchmarking OpenStack clouds using ordinary user 
accounts that already exist is one of our majors goals for already more then 
half of year. As I said in my previous message, we will support it soon finally.



Btw we have feature request page:
https://github.com/stackforge/rally/tree/master/doc/feature_request
With the list of features that we are working now.


Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Ajay Kalambur (akalambu) 
mailto:akala...@cisco.com>> wrote:
Hi Boris
Existing users is one thing but according to Rally page it says admin account 
benchmarking is already supported

Rally is on its way to support of benchmarking OpenStack clouds using ordinary 
user accounts that already exist. Rally lacked such functionality (it only 
supported benchmarking either from an admin account or from a bunch of 
temporarily created users), which posed a problem since some deployments don't 
allow temporary users creation. There have been 
two 
patches that prepare the code for 
this new functionality. It is going to come very soon - stay tuned.


Ajay

From: Boris Pavlovic mailto:bpavlo...@mirantis.com>>
Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>>
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 6:13 PM
To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [rally][users]

Ajay,

I am working that feature. It's almost ready.
I'll let you know when I finish.


Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ajay Kalambur (akalambu) 
mailto:akala...@cisco.com>> wrote:
Hi
Our default mode of execution of rally is allowing Rally to create a new user 
and tenant. Is there a way to have rally use the existing admin tenant and user.
I need to use Rally for some tests which would need a admin access so I would 
like Rally to use existing admin tenant and admin user for tests
Ajay


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