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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 9:46:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][NFV][qa] Testing NUMA, CPU pinning and large pages
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vladik Romanovsky" <vladik.romanovsky at enovance.com>
> > To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Following Steve Gordon's email [1], regarding CI for NUMA, SR-IOV, and
> > other
> > features, I'd like to start a discussion about the NUMA testing in
> > particular.
> > 
> > Recently we have started a work to test some of these features.
> > The current plan is to use the functional tests, in the Nova tree, to
> > exercise
> > the code paths for NFV use cases. In general, these will contain tests
> > to cover various scenarios regarding NUMA, CPU pinning, large pages and
> > validate a correct placement/scheduling.
> 
> Hi Vladik,
> 
> There was some discussion of the above at the Nova mid-cycle yesterday, are
> you able to give a quick update on any progress with regards to creation of
> the above functional tests?
> 

I have a some progress, however, currently I have some challenges with validating
the scheduler filters outcome. I'll try to post some of it in the coming days.

> > In addition to the functional tests in Nova, we have also proposed two
> > basic
> > scenarios in Tempest [2][3]. One to make sure that an instance can boot
> > with a
> > minimal NUMA configuration (a topology that every host should have) and
> > one that would request an "impossible" topology and fail with an expected
> > exception.
> 
> We also discussed the above tempest changes and they will likely receive some
> more review cycles as a result of this discussion but it looks like there is
> already some feedback from Nikola that needs to be addressed. More broadly
> for the list it looks like we need to determine whether adding a negative
> test in this case is a valid/desireable use of Tempest.

I have updated the tempest tests yesterday. The tests were waiting on a nova
patch to be merged: 
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/145312

However, unfortunately, I've discovered another bug in nova that prevents the
tests from passing, somehow I missed it in the previous attempt:
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/150694

Thanks,
Vladik

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
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