On 12 November 2014 11:11, Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: 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). > With apologies for the late reply, but I was off last week. And because I was off last week I've not done anything about this so far. I'm assuming that we'll just set up one physical multisocket box and ensure that we can do a cleanup-deploy cycle so that we can run whatever x86-dependent but otherwise relatively hardware agnostic tests we might need. Seems easier than worrying about what libvirt and KVM do and don't support at a given moment in time. I'll go nag our lab people for the machines. I'm thinking for the cleanup-deploy that I might just try booting the physical machine into a RAM root disk and then running a devstack setup, as it's probably faster than a clean install, but I'm open to options. (There's quite a lot of memory in the servers we have so this is likely to work fine.) That aside, where are the tests going to live? -- Ian.
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