[openstack-dev] [tc][rally][qa] Application for a new OpenStack Program: Performance and Scalability

David Kranz dkranz at redhat.com
Tue Jul 22 15:58:12 UTC 2014


On 07/22/2014 10:44 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> Honestly, I'm really not sure I see this as a different program, but is
> really something that should be folded into the QA program. I feel like
> a top level effort like this is going to lead to a lot of duplication in
> the data analysis that's currently going on, as well as functionality
> for better load driver UX.
>
> 	-Sean
+1
It will also lead to pointless discussions/arguments about which 
activities are part of "QA" and which are part of
"Performance and Scalability Testing".

QA Program mission:

" Develop, maintain, and initiate tools and plans to ensure the upstream 
stability and quality of OpenStack, and its release readiness at any 
point during the release cycle."

It is hard to see how $subj falls outside of that mission. Of course 
rally would continue to have its own repo, review team, etc. as do 
tempest and grenade.

   -David

>
> On 07/21/2014 05:53 PM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:
>> Hi Stackers and TC,
>>
>> The Rally contributor team would like to propose a new OpenStack program
>> with a mission to provide scalability and performance benchmarking, and
>> code profiling tools for OpenStack components.
>>
>> We feel we've achieved a critical mass in the Rally project, with an
>> active, diverse contributor team. The Rally project will be the initial
>> project in a new proposed "Performance and Scalability" program.
>>
>> Below, the details on our proposed new program.
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration,
>> Boris
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/108502/
>>
>>
>> Official Name
>> =============
>>
>> Performance and Scalability
>>
>> Codename
>> ========
>>
>> Rally
>>
>> Scope
>> =====
>>
>> Scalability benchmarking, performance analysis, and profiling of
>> OpenStack components and workloads
>>
>> Mission
>> =======
>>
>> To increase the scalability and performance of OpenStack clouds by:
>>
>> * defining standard benchmarks
>> * sharing performance data between operators and developers
>> * providing transparency of code paths through profiling tools
>>
>> Maturity
>> ========
>>
>> * Meeting logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/rally/2014/
>> * IRC channel: #openstack-rally
>> * Rally performance jobs are in (Cinder, Glance, Keystone & Neutron)
>> check pipelines.
>> * > 950 commits over last 10 months
>> * Large, diverse contributor community
>>   * http://stackalytics.com/?release=juno&metric=commits&project_type=All&module=rally
>>   * http://stackalytics.com/report/contribution/rally/180
>>
>> * Non official lead of project is Boris Pavlovic
>>   * Official election In progress.
>>
>> Deliverables
>> ============
>>
>> Critical deliverables in the Juno cycle are:
>>
>> * extending Rally Benchmark framework to cover all use cases that are
>> required by all OpenStack projects
>> * integrating OSprofiler in all core projects
>> * increasing functional & unit testing coverage of Rally.
>>
>> Discussion
>> ==========
>>
>> One of the major goals of Rally is to make it simple to share results of
>> standardized benchmarks and experiments between operators and
>> developers. When an operator needs to verify certain performance
>> indicators meet some service level agreement, he will be able to run
>> benchmarks (from Rally) and share with the developer community the
>> results along with his OpenStack configuration. These benchmark results
>> will assist developers in diagnosing particular performance and
>> scalability problems experienced with the operator's configuration.
>>
>> Another interesting area is Rally & the OpenStack CI process. Currently,
>> working on performance issues upstream tends to be a more social than
>> technical process. We can use Rally in the upstream gates to identify
>> performance regressions and measure improvement in scalability over
>> time. The use of Rally in the upstream gates will allow a more rigorous,
>> scientific approach to performance analysis. In the case of an
>> integrated OSprofiler, it will be possible to get detailed information
>> about API call flows (e.g. duration of API calls in different services).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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