[openstack-dev] [Nova][QA] Disabling the v3 API tests in the gate

Ken'ichi Ohmichi ken1ohmichi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 14:24:10 UTC 2014


2014-06-17 21:39 GMT+09:00 John Garbutt <john at johngarbutt.com>:
> On 12 June 2014 17:10, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2014 12:02 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/12/2014 10:51 AM, Matthew Treinish wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:41:19AM +0930, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it'd be OK to move them to the experimental queue and a
>>>>>> periodic
>>>>>>> nightly job until the v2.1 stuff shakes out.  The v3 API is marked
>>>>>>> experimental right now so it seems fitting that it'd be running
>>>>>>> tests in
>>>>>>> the experimental queue until at least the spec is approved and
>>>>>>> microversioning starts happening in the code base.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think this is reasonable. Continuing to run the full set of tests on
>>>>>> every patch for something we never expect to see the light of day
>>>>>> (in its
>>>>>> current form) seems wasteful to me. Plus, we're going to
>>>>>> (presumably) be
>>>>>> ramping up tests on v2.1, which means to me that we'll need to clear
>>>>>> out
>>>>>> some capacity to make room for that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thats true, though I was suggesting as v2.1microversions rolls out
>>>>> we drop
>>>>> the test out of v3 and move it to v2.1microversions testing, so
>>>>> there's no
>>>>> change in capacity required.
>>>>
>>>> That's why I wasn't proposing that we rip the tests out of the tree.
>>>> I'm just
>>>> trying to weigh the benefit of leaving them enabled on every run against
>>>> the increased load they cause in an arguably overworked gate.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Matt - how much of the time overhead is scenario tests? That's something
>>>>> that would have a lot less impact if moved to and experimental queue.
>>>>> Although the v3 api as a whole won't be officially exposed, the api
>>>>> tests
>>>>> test specific features fairly indepdently which are slated for
>>>>> v2.1microversions on a case by case basis and I don't want to see those
>>>>> regress. I guess my concern is how often the experimental queue
>>>>> results get
>>>>> really looked at and how hard/quick it is to revert when lots of stuff
>>>>> merges in a short period of time)
>>>>
>>>> The scenario tests tend to be the slower tests in tempest. I have to
>>>> disagree
>>>> that removing them would have lower impact. The scenario tests provide
>>>> the best
>>>> functional verification, which is part of the reason we always have
>>>> failures in
>>>> the gate on them. While it would make the gate faster the decrease in
>>>> what were
>>>> testing isn't worth it. Also, for reference I pulled the test run
>>>> times that
>>>> were greater than 10sec out of a recent gate run:
>>>> http://paste.openstack.org/show/83827/
>>>>
>>>> The experimental jobs aren't automatically run, they have to be manually
>>>> triggered by leaving a 'check experimental' comment. So for changes
>>>> that we want
>>>> to test the v3 api on a comment would have to left. To prevent
>>>> regression is why
>>>> we'd also have the nightly job, which I think is a better compromise
>>>> for the v3
>>>> tests while we wait to migrate them to the v2.1 microversion tests.
>>>>
>>>> Another, option is that we make the v3 job run only on the check queue
>>>> and not
>>>> on the gate. But the benefits of that are slightly more limited,
>>>> because we'd
>>>> still be holding up the check queue.
>>>>
>>>> -Matt Treinish
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Yeah the scenario tests need to stay, that's how we've exposed the two
>>> big ssh bugs in the last couple of weeks which are obvious issues at scale.
>>>
>>> I still think experimental/periodic is the way to go, not a hybrid of
>>> check-on/gate-off.  If we want to explicitly test v3 API changes we can
>>> do that with 'recheck experimental'.  Granted someone has to remember to
>>> run those, much like checking/rechecking 3rd party CI results.
>>>
>>> One issue I've had with the nightly periodic job is finding out where
>>> the results are in an easy to consume format.  Is there something out
>>> there for that?  I'm thinking specifically of things we've turned off in
>>> the gate before like multi-backend volume tests and
>>> allow_tenant_isolation=False.
>>
>> It's getting emailed to the otherwise defunct openstack-qa list.
>> Subscribe there for nightlies.
>>
>> Also agreed, the scenario tests find and prevent *tons* of real issues.
>> Those have to stay. There is a reason we use them in the smoke runs for
>> grenade, they are a very solid sniff test of real working.
>>
>> I also think by policy we should probably pull v3 out of the main job,
>> as it's not a stable API. We've had issues in Tempest with people
>> landing tests, then trying to go and change the API. The biggest issue
>> in taking branchless tempest back to stable/havana was Nova v3 API, as
>> it's actually quite different in havana than icehouse.
>>
>> We have a chicken / egg challenge in testing experimental APIs which
>> will need to get resolved, but for now I think turning off v3 is the
>> right approach.
>
> +1
>
> Seems like we should concentrate on v2 tests for now.
>
> To stop v3 code from regressing, we should be merging and testing
> v2.1, ASAP, using those v2 tests.

Yes, right.
We have already started v2.1 API tests on Tempest side with some prototype:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/96662/

Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi

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> For the future micro versions, we still have those v3 test to be inspired by.
>
> Chris, does that seem workable?
>
> John
>
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