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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Clark Boylan <cboylan at sapwetik.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, at 9:23 AM, Artom Lifshitz wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> tl;dr Humbly requesting a handful of nodes to run NFV tests in CI
>>
>> Intel has their NFV tests tempest plugin [1] and manages a third party
>> CI for Nova. Two of the cores on that project (Stephen Finucane and
>> Sean Mooney) have now moved to Red Hat, but the point still stands
>> that there's a need and a use case for testing things like NUMA
>> topologies, CPU pinning and hugepages.
>>
>> At Red Hat, we also have a similar tempest plugin project [2] that we
>> use for downstream whitebox testing. The scope is a bit bigger than
>> just NFV, but the main use case is still testing NFV code in an
>> automated way.
>>
>> Given that there's a clear need for this sort of whitebox testing, I
>> would like to humbly request a handful of nodes (in the 3 to 5 range)
>> from infra to run an "official" Nova NFV CI. The code doing the
>> testing would initially be the current Intel plugin, bug we could have
>> a separate discussion about keeping "Intel" in the name or forking
>> and/or renaming it to something more vendor-neutral.
>
> The way you request nodes from Infra is through your Zuul configuration. Add jobs to a project to run tests on the node labels that you want.

Aha, thanks, I'll look into that. I was coming from a place of
complete ignorance about infra.
>
> I'm guessing this process doesn't work for NFV tests because you have specific hardware requirements that are not met by our current VM resources?
> If that is the case it would probably be best to start by documenting what is required and where the existing VM resources fall
> short.

Well, it should be possible to do most of what we'd like with nested
virt and virtual NUMA topologies, though things like hugepages will
need host configuration, specifically the kernel boot command [1]. Is
that possible with the nodes we have?

> In general though we operate on top of donated cloud resources, and if those do not work we will have to identify a source of resources that would work.

Right, as always it comes down to resources and money. I believe
historically Red Hat has been opposed to running an upstream third
party CI (this is by no means an official Red Hat position, just
remembering what I think I heard), but I can always see what I can do.

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/admin/huge-pages.html#enabling-huge-pages-on-the-host