> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:06:35PM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > > Dne 01. 12. 20 v 11:22 Stefan Hajnoczi napsal(a): > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:05:49AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > > > > Dne 30. 11. 20 v 14:25 Stefan Hajnoczi napsal(a): > > > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:10:14AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > > > > > What is the minimal environment needed for bare metal hosts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Not sure what you mean by that. For provisioning I have a beaker plugin, > other plugins can be added if needed. Even without beaker one can also provide > an installed machine and skip the provisioning step. Runperf would then only > apply the profiles (including fetching the VM images from public sources) and > run the tests on them. Note that for certain profiles might need to reboot the > machine and in such case the tested machine can not be the one running > run-perf, other profiles can use the current machine but it's still not a > very good > idea as the additional overhead might spoil the results. > > > > > > > > Note that for a very simple issue which do not require a special setup > > > > I am > usually just running a custom VM on my laptop and use a Localhost profile on > that VM, which basically results in testing that custom-setup VM's > performance. It's dirty but very fast for the first-level check. > > > > > > I was thinking about reprovisioning the machine to ensure each run > > > starts from the same clean state. This requires reprovisioning. > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > > Sure, I probably shorten it unnecessary too much. In my setup I am using a > beaker plugin that reprovisions the machine. As for others they can either use > beaker plugin as well or they can just prepare the machine prior to the > execution as described in the previous paragraph. > > FWIW I'm not aware of anyone else taking on this work upstream. Whatever > you can do for upstream will be the QEMU disk/network/etc preformance > regression testing effort. Someone might show up with engineering time and > machine resources, but the chance is low.
Maybe we could provide CI platforms, machine resources and some other possible help : ) Currently, there is only a short readme, we will complete the documents as soon as possible. https://gitee.com/wu_fengguang/compass-ci/blob/master/README.en.md Thanks, Chen Qun
