[openstack-dev] [oslo.messaging] Performance testing. Initial steps.

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Jan 28 14:46:35 UTC 2015



On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 03:23 AM, Denis Makogon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Gordon Sim <gsim at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/27/2015 06:31 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Denis Makogon wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd like to build tool that would be able to profile messaging over
> >>> various deployments. This "tool" would give me an ability to compare
> >>> results of performance testing produced by native tools and
> >>> oslo.messaging-based tool, eventually it would lead us into digging into
> >>> code and trying to figure out where "bad things" are happening (that's
> >>> the
> >>> actual place where we would need to profile messaging code). Correct me
> >>> if
> >>> i'm wrong.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It would be interesting to have recommendations for deployment of rabbit
> >> or qpid based on performance testing with oslo.messaging. It would also
> >> be interesting to have recommendations for changes to the implementation
> >> of oslo.messaging based on performance testing. I'm not sure you want to
> >> do full-stack testing for the latter, though.
> >>
> >> Either way, I think you would be able to start the testing without any
> >> changes in oslo.messaging.
> >>
> >
> > I agree. I think the first step is to define what to measure and then
> > construct an application using olso.messaging that allows the data of
> > interest to be captured using different drivers and indeed different
> > configurations of a given driver.
> >
> > I wrote a very simple test application to test one aspect that I felt was
> > important, namely the scalability of the RPC mechanism as you increase the
> > number of clients and servers involved. The code I used is
> > https://github.com/grs/ombt, its probably stale at the moment, I only
> > link to it as an example of approach.
> >
> > Using that test code I was then able to compare performance in this one
> > aspect across drivers (the 'rabbit', 'qpid' and new amqp 1.0 based drivers
> > _ I wanted to try zmq, but couldn't figure out how to get it working at the
> > time), and for different deployment options using a given driver (amqp 1.0
> > using qpidd or qpid dispatch router in either standalone or with multiple
> > connected routers).
> >
> > There are of course several other aspects that I think would be important
> > to explore: notifications, more specific variations in the RPC 'topology'
> > i.e. number of clients on given server number of servers in single group
> > etc, and a better tool (or set of tools) would allow all of these to be
> > explored.
> >
> > From my experimentation, I believe the biggest differences in scalability
> > are going to come not from optimising the code in oslo.messaging so much as
> > choosing different patterns for communication. Those choices may be
> > constrained by other aspects as well of course, notably approach to
> > reliability.
> >
> >
> >
> After couple internal discussions and hours of investigations, i think
> i've
> foung the most applicabale solution
> that will accomplish performance testing approach and will eventually be
> evaluated as messaging drivers
> configuration and AMQP service deployment recommendataion.
> 
> Solution that i've been talking about is already pretty well-known across
> OpenStack components - Rally and its scenarios.
> Why it would be the best option? Rally scenarios would not touch
> messaging
>  core part. Scenarios are gate-able.
> Even if we're talking about internal testing, scenarios are very useful
> in
> this case,
> since they are something that can be tuned/configured taking into account
> environment needs.
> 
> Doug, Gordon, what do you think about bringing scenarios into messaging?

I think I need more detail about what you mean by that.

Doug

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> 
> Kind regards,
> Denis M.
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