Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Anton Marchukov
Hello Yaniv. I don't do mock. And if I run everything in RAM (whether directly under > /dev/shm/ or in a zram disk), I honestly don't need the Linux > system cache. > >> >> Besides the possible difference in disk speeds I think the second factor >> is this Linux fs cache that basically create an a

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Anton Marchukov wrote: > >> > The node will be offline for now until we agree on what to do. >> > An option is to abandon RAM disks completely as we didn't find >> > any performance benefits from using them so far. >> >> That's very surprising. On my case it doub

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Anton Marchukov
> > > > The node will be offline for now until we agree on what to do. > > An option is to abandon RAM disks completely as we didn't find > > any performance benefits from using them so far. > > That's very surprising. On my case it doubles the performance, at least. > But I assume my storage (sin

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Barak Korren wrote: > On 29 September 2016 at 11:08, Yaniv Kaul wrote: >> zram does not support direct IO (tested, indeed fails). >> What I do is host the VMs there, though - this is working - but I'm using >> Lago (and not oVirt). does oVirt need direct IO for t

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Barak Korren
On 29 September 2016 at 11:08, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > zram does not support direct IO (tested, indeed fails). > What I do is host the VMs there, though - this is working - but I'm using > Lago (and not oVirt). does oVirt need direct IO for the temp disks? I > thought we are doing them on the libvirt

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Yaniv Kaul
gt; check what's going on but it must be something else than RAM disks. > > Regards, > Evgheni Dereveanchin > > - Original Message - > From: "Yaniv Kaul" > To: "Evgheni Dereveanchin" > Cc: "infra" , "devel" , "Eyal Edri&quo

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Evgheni Dereveanchin
hin - Original Message - From: "Yaniv Kaul" To: "Evgheni Dereveanchin" Cc: "infra" , "devel" , "Eyal Edri" , "Nir Soffer" Sent: Thursday, 29 September, 2016 9:32:45 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using dire

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Yaniv Kaul
; edere...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Yaniv Kaul" , "devel" , "infra" < in...@ovirt.org> > Sent: Thursday, 29 September, 2016 8:08:45 AM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI > > Evgheni, > Can you try switching the current

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-29 Thread Evgheni Dereveanchin
em so far. Regards, Evgheni Dereveanchin - Original Message - From: "Eyal Edri" To: "Nir Soffer" , "Evgheni Dereveanchin" Cc: "Yaniv Kaul" , "devel" , "infra" Sent: Thursday, 29 September, 2016 8:08:45 AM Subject: Re: [ovir

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Eyal Edri
Evgheni, Can you try switching the current RAM drive with zram? On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2016 11:37 PM, "Nir Soffer" wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Nir Soffer > wrote: > >> > On

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Nir Soffer
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > On Sep 28, 2016 11:37 PM, "Nir Soffer" wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Barak Korren >> > wrote: >> >> The CI setup did not change recently. >> > >> > Great >> > >> >> Al

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On Sep 28, 2016 11:37 PM, "Nir Soffer" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Barak Korren wrote: > >> The CI setup did not change recently. > > > > Great > > > >> All standard-CI jobs run inside mock (chroot) which is stored on top >

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Nir Soffer
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Barak Korren wrote: >> The CI setup did not change recently. > > Great > >> All standard-CI jobs run inside mock (chroot) which is stored on top >> of a regular FS, so they should not be affected by the slave

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Nir Soffer
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Barak Korren wrote: > The CI setup did not change recently. Great > All standard-CI jobs run inside mock (chroot) which is stored on top > of a regular FS, so they should not be affected by the slave OS at all > as far as FS settings go. > > But perhaps some sla

Re: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Barak Korren
The CI setup did not change recently. All standard-CI jobs run inside mock (chroot) which is stored on top of a regular FS, so they should not be affected by the slave OS at all as far as FS settings go. But perhaps some slave-OS/mock-OS combination is acting strangely, so could you be more speci

[ovirt-devel] [VDSM] All tests using directio fail on CI

2016-09-28 Thread Nir Soffer
Hi all, It seems that the CI setup has changed, and /var/tmp is using now tempfs. This is not compatible with vdsm tests, assuming that /var/tmp is a real file system. This is the reason we do not use /tmp. We have lot of storage tests using directio, and directio cannot work on tempfs. Please