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Hey Glauber that would be great! See you in Paris then :)

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer at cloudius-systems.com
> wrote:

> Hello guys
>
> Just to let you know, I won't be in the Summit because I am too busy due
> to the fact I am relocating to a foreign country.
>
> However, that country happens to be France, and that city happens to be
> Paris. I am arriving Nov 4th around 3 pm, and would be happy to meet you
> (and other people interested in OSv) either that night, or even better, the
> following day or night.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh512 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great let's have some f2f time discussion at Paris. Have you added what u
>> mentioned in Nova Kilo summit topics?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Gareth <academicgareth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Pusihng it into OpenStack is not a hard job, because for OpenStack
>>> developers OSv image is a normal qcow2 image. What you need do is enabling
>>> some Qemu flags in Nova libvirt driver.
>>>
>>> yep, I will be there :)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh512 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ahhh, that's bad. Do you think there is a need for pushing OSv
>>>> integration in OpenStack in Kilo cycle? Would you come to Paris Summit?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Gareth <academicgareth at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> yes :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I planed that if that topic were picked, I could apply that as a
>>>>> formal project in Intel. But failed...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh512 at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, I'm also interested in it. You submitted a talk about it to Paris
>>>>>> Summit right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Gareth <academicgareth at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is introducing OSv to all OpenStack developers. OSv team is
>>>>>>> focusing on performance of KVM based guest OS, or cloud application. I'm
>>>>>>> interested in it because of their hard work on optimizing all details. And
>>>>>>> I had also worked on deploying OSv on OpenStack environment. However, since
>>>>>>> my work is only for private interests in off working time, my progress is
>>>>>>> pretty slow. So I have to share my experience and hope other engineers
>>>>>>> could join it:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # OSv highlights in my mind
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1, Super fast booting time means nearly zero down time services, an
>>>>>>> alternative way to dynamic flavor changing and time improvement for
>>>>>>> deploying instances in KVM based PaaS platform. 2, Great work on
>>>>>>> performance. Cloud engineers could borrow experience from their work on
>>>>>>> guest OS. 3, Better performance on JVM. We could imagine there are many
>>>>>>> overhead and redundancy in host OS/guest OS/JVM. Fixing that could help
>>>>>>> Java applications perform closer to bare-metal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # Enabling OSv on OpenStack
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually there should not be any big problems. The steps are that
>>>>>>> building OSv qcow2 image first and boot it via Nova then. You may face some
>>>>>>> problems because OSv image need many new Qemu features, such as
>>>>>>> virtio-rng-io/vhost and enable-kvm flag is necessary.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fortunately, I don't meet any problems with network, Neutron
>>>>>>> (actually I thought before network in OpenStack maybe hang me for a long
>>>>>>> time). OSv need a tap device and Neutron does good job on it. And then I
>>>>>>> could access OSv service very well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # OSv based demo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The work I finished is only a memcached cluster. And the result is
>>>>>>> obvious: memory throughout of OSv based instance has 3 times than it in
>>>>>>> traditional virtual machines, and 90% of performance on host OS[0][1].
>>>>>>> Since their work on memcached is quite mature, consider OSv if you need
>>>>>>> build memcached instance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another valuable demo cluster is Hadoop. When talking about Hadoop
>>>>>>> on OpenStack, the topic asked most frequently is the performance on virtual
>>>>>>> machines. A known experience is higher version Qemu would help fix disk I/O
>>>>>>> performance[2]. But how  does the overlap in JVM/guest OS? I would love to
>>>>>>> find that, but don't have so much time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After of all, the purpose of this thread is to bring an interesting
>>>>>>> topic on cloud performance and hope more and more efficient clusters based
>>>>>>> on OpenStack (in production use). I don't have so much time on OSv because
>>>>>>> this just is my personal interest, but I could prove OSv is a valuable way
>>>>>>> and topic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [0] http://paste.openstack.org/show/121382/
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/wiki/OSv-Case-Study:-Memcached
>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>> https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/session-videos/presentation/performance-of-hadoop-on-openstack
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Gareth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Distributed Storage, Fitness,
>>>>>>> Basketball*
>>>>>>> *OpenStack contributor, kun_huang at freenode*
>>>>>>> *My promise: if you find any spelling or grammar mistakes in my
>>>>>>> email from Mar 1 2013, notify me *
>>>>>>> *and I'll donate $1 or ￥1 to an open organization you specify.*
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Zhipeng Huang
>>>>>> Research Assistant
>>>>>> Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2
>>>>>> University of California, Irvine
>>>>>> Email: zhipengh at uci.edu
>>>>>> Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gareth
>>>>>
>>>>> *Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Distributed Storage, Fitness, Basketball*
>>>>> *OpenStack contributor, kun_huang at freenode*
>>>>> *My promise: if you find any spelling or grammar mistakes in my email
>>>>> from Mar 1 2013, notify me *
>>>>> *and I'll donate $1 or ￥1 to an open organization you specify.*
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Zhipeng Huang
>>>> Research Assistant
>>>> Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2
>>>> University of California, Irvine
>>>> Email: zhipengh at uci.edu
>>>> Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402
>>>> OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OpenCompute affcienado
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gareth
>>>
>>> *Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Distributed Storage, Fitness, Basketball*
>>> *OpenStack contributor, kun_huang at freenode*
>>> *My promise: if you find any spelling or grammar mistakes in my email
>>> from Mar 1 2013, notify me *
>>> *and I'll donate $1 or ￥1 to an open organization you specify.*
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zhipeng Huang
>> Research Assistant
>> Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2
>> University of California, Irvine
>> Email: zhipengh at uci.edu
>> Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402
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Zhipeng Huang
Research Assistant
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2
University of California, Irvine
Email: zhipengh at uci.edu
Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402
OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OpenCompute affcienado
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