Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 2013年11月27日 23:43, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-11-27 11:18:46 +0800 (+0800), yongli he wrote: [...] if you post -1, you should post testing log somewhere for people to debug it, so does third party testing can post testing log to the infra log server? Not at the moment--the "infra log server" is just an Apache name-based virtual host on the static.openstack.org VM using mod_autoindex to serve log files out of the DocumentRoot (plus a custom filter CGI Sean Dague wrote recently), and our Jenkins has a shell account it can use to SCP files onto it. We can't really scale that access control particularly safely to accommodate third parties, nor do we have an unlimited amount of space on that machine (we currently only preserve 6 months of test logs, and even compressing the limit on how much Cinder block storage we can attach to the VM is coming into sight). There has been recent discussion about designing a more scalable build/test artifact publication system backed by Swift object storage, and suggestion that once it's working we might consider support for handing out authorization to third-party-specific containers for the purpose you describe. Until we have developed something like that, however, you'll need to provide your own place this need appoved by my supervisor or IT, i can not do anything about this. does any one hear of any free space can host such thing? Yongli He to publish your logs (something like we use--bog standard Apache on a public VM--should work fine I'd think?). ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 2013-11-27 11:18:46 +0800 (+0800), yongli he wrote: [...] > if you post -1, you should post testing log somewhere for people > to debug it, so does third party testing can post testing log to > the infra log server? Not at the moment--the "infra log server" is just an Apache name-based virtual host on the static.openstack.org VM using mod_autoindex to serve log files out of the DocumentRoot (plus a custom filter CGI Sean Dague wrote recently), and our Jenkins has a shell account it can use to SCP files onto it. We can't really scale that access control particularly safely to accommodate third parties, nor do we have an unlimited amount of space on that machine (we currently only preserve 6 months of test logs, and even compressing the limit on how much Cinder block storage we can attach to the VM is coming into sight). There has been recent discussion about designing a more scalable build/test artifact publication system backed by Swift object storage, and suggestion that once it's working we might consider support for handing out authorization to third-party-specific containers for the purpose you describe. Until we have developed something like that, however, you'll need to provide your own place to publish your logs (something like we use--bog standard Apache on a public VM--should work fine I'd think?). -- Jeremy Stanley ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 2013年11月23日 03:43, Jeremy Stanley wrote: Hi, Jeremy for currently, we need setup it up asap, so the third party seems the right way. but i have some concern, if you post -1, you should post testing log somewhere for people to debug it, so does third party testing can post testing log to the infra log server? Yongli h...@intel.com On 2013-11-22 08:59:16 + (+), Tan, Lin wrote: [...] Our module only works on the compute node that enables VT-d and contains special PCIs which support the SR-IOV. So is it possible to 1. setup compute node which enables pci passthrough. 2. modify the testing schedule logic allow the pci testing case be scheduled to that machine [...] If you're asking about our official test infrastructure for the OpenStack project, I believe this is infeasible for now. We currently perform testing within generic virtual machines provided by HPCloud and Rackspace, so the Nova compute nodes we build and test are already running under virtualization and in turn manage only paravirtualized QEMU instances. In the near term, your best bet is to run your own test infrastructure supporting the hardware features you require and report advisory results back on proposed changes: http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html For a longer term solution, you may want to consult with the TripleO project with regards to their bare-metal test plan: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 2013年11月25日 02:13, Robert Collins wrote: On 23 November 2013 08:43, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-11-22 08:59:16 + (+), Tan, Lin wrote: [...] In the near term, your best bet is to run your own test infrastructure supporting the hardware features you require and report advisory results back on proposed changes: http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html For a longer term solution, you may want to consult with the TripleO project with regards to their bare-metal test plan: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud I think using the donated resources to perform this sort of testing is an ideal example of the value the TripleO cloud can bring to OpenStack as a whole. I don't know if we have the necessary hardware (I'm fairly sure we have VT-d, but I'm not 100% sure we have anything setup for SR-IOV. If we do, then cool - please come and work with us to get that testing what you need. A key consideration will be whether you want checking or gating. For gating or infra run checking there need to be two regions (which the we should want checking and gating, we definetely should put effort on it, it seems a fairly straightforward solution for such testing. Yongli He(Pauli He) TripleO cloud is aiming at) and infra running the tests; for checking without infra running it the third-party system is a good mechanism (and that can be run from a single TripleO region too, in principle. -Rob ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 23 November 2013 08:43, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-11-22 08:59:16 + (+), Tan, Lin wrote: > [...] > In the near term, your best bet is to run your own test > infrastructure supporting the hardware features you require and > report advisory results back on proposed changes: > > http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html > > For a longer term solution, you may want to consult with the TripleO > project with regards to their bare-metal test plan: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud I think using the donated resources to perform this sort of testing is an ideal example of the value the TripleO cloud can bring to OpenStack as a whole. I don't know if we have the necessary hardware (I'm fairly sure we have VT-d, but I'm not 100% sure we have anything setup for SR-IOV. If we do, then cool - please come and work with us to get that testing what you need. A key consideration will be whether you want checking or gating. For gating or infra run checking there need to be two regions (which the TripleO cloud is aiming at) and infra running the tests; for checking without infra running it the third-party system is a good mechanism (and that can be run from a single TripleO region too, in principle. -Rob -- Robert Collins Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Infra] Support for PCI Passthrough
On 2013-11-22 08:59:16 + (+), Tan, Lin wrote: [...] > Our module only works on the compute node that enables VT-d and > contains special PCIs which support the SR-IOV. > > So is it possible to > > 1. setup compute node which enables pci passthrough. > > 2. modify the testing schedule logic allow the pci testing case > be scheduled to that machine [...] If you're asking about our official test infrastructure for the OpenStack project, I believe this is infeasible for now. We currently perform testing within generic virtual machines provided by HPCloud and Rackspace, so the Nova compute nodes we build and test are already running under virtualization and in turn manage only paravirtualized QEMU instances. In the near term, your best bet is to run your own test infrastructure supporting the hardware features you require and report advisory results back on proposed changes: http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html For a longer term solution, you may want to consult with the TripleO project with regards to their bare-metal test plan: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud -- Jeremy Stanley ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
