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Recently I had been running Tempest on my setup testing a 
mixed-architecture deployment (x86_64 ans ppc64le compute nodes at the 
same time).  It seems that some of the migration and affinity tests will 
check if there's more than one Compute node before they run.  However, 
it would seem that's as far as they check, without checking if they are 
in fact compatible or even of the same architecture.  (my test cluster 
is very small, and normally includes two ppc64le Compute nodes, and 
sometimes one x86_64 Compute node.  Currently one ppc64le machine is 
down for repair).

Because the two compute nodes are different architectures, I am getting 
failures in various migration and affinity tests, maybe more if I tested 
a larger subset.  Now granted my particular setup is a special case, but 
it does bring to mind some extensions that may be needed for Tempest in 
the future.  I could see it being possible to have x86_64 and ARM mixed 
together in one stack, maybe even tossing in RISC-v someday.

I'm thinking we need to start adding in extra test images, flavors, etc 
into the Tempest configurations (as in defining multiple options so that 
each architecture can have test images, etc assigned to it, rather than 
the current primary and alt image for just one architecture)  
Additionally, there should be testcases taking into account the 
architectures involved (such as seeing that an instance on one arch 
cannot be migrated to the other, as an example).  I know this involves a 
bit of refactoring, I didn't know if it had even been considered yet.


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James LaBarre

Software Engineer, OpenStack MultiArch

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>

jlabarre at redhat.com <mailto:jlabarre at redhat.com>

<https://www.redhat.com>
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