nova has worked hard over the last few cycles to identify and reduce the amount of tech debt we're carrying. One such item identified early on was the lack of automated testing and upstream documentation for NFV features, such as CPU pinning, realtime, hugepages, SR-IOV, and PCI passthrough. We discussed this at the Austin (M) summit and have been slowly chugging away at it since through a combination of weekly SR-IOV meetings [1] and changes to the docs [2][3][4][5], code and in- [6] and out-of-tree tests [7].
This work will continue for this cycle, however, we'd like to ask is there any of these features where developers or operators can still identify significant holes in either validation or (upstream) documentation? If so, please give us a shout. This is something we'll probably double back on in a PTG session, but we'd like to make full use of the few months between now and then to really build on these features. I'd also like to take the opportunity to promote the weekly SR-IOV meeting. We regularly address all things NFV at this meeting, so if you've ideas on how to improve or build upon these features, this is as good a place to bring said ideas up. Cheers, Stephen (sfinucan) [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#SR-IOV/PCI_Passthrough_Meeting [2] http://docs.openstack.org/networking-guide/config-sriov.html [3] http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/compute-pci-passthrough.html [4] http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/compute-cpu-topologies.html [5] http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/compute-huge-pages.html [6] https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/tests/functional /libvirt [7] https://github.com/openstack/intel-nfv-ci-tests __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
