[openstack-dev] [neutron][L3][QA] DVR job failure rate and maintainability

Ryan Moats rmoats at us.ibm.com
Tue Sep 15 11:31:20 UTC 2015


I couldn't have said it better, Sean.

Ryan Moats

"Sean M. Collins" <sean at coreitpro.com> wrote on 09/14/2015 05:01:03 PM:

> From: "Sean M. Collins" <sean at coreitpro.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 09/14/2015 05:01 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [neutron][L3][QA] DVR job failure rate and
> maintainability
>
> [adding neutron tag to subject and resending]
>
> Hi,
>
> Carl Baldwin, Doug Wiegley, Matt Kassawara, Ryan Moats, and myself are
> at the QA sprint in Fort Collins. Earlier today there was a discussion
> about the failure rate about the DVR job, and the possible impact that
> it is having on the gate.
>
> Ryan has a good patch up that shows the failure rates over time:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/223201
>
> To view the graphs, you go over into your neutron git repo, and open the
> .html files that are present in doc/dashboards - which should open up
> your browser and display the Graphite query.
>
> Doug put up a patch to change the DVR job to be non-voting while we
> determine the cause of the recent spikes:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/223173
>
> There was a good discussion after pushing the patch, revolving around
> the need for Neutron to have DVR, to fit operational and reliability
> requirements, and help transition away from Nova-Network by providing
> one of many solutions similar to Nova's multihost feature.  I'm skipping
> over a huge amount of context about the Nova-Network and Neutron work,
> since that is a big and ongoing effort.
>
> DVR is an important feature to have, and we need to ensure that the job
> that tests DVR has a high pass rate.
>
> One thing that I think we need, is to form a group of contributors that
> can help with the DVR feature in the immediate term to fix the current
> bugs, and longer term maintain the feature. It's a big task and I don't
> believe that a single person or company can or should do it by
themselves.
>
> The L3 group is a good place to start, but I think that even within the
> L3 team we need dedicated and diverse group of people who are interested
> in maintaining the DVR feature.
>
> Without this, I think the DVR feature will start to bit-rot and that
> will have a significant impact on our ability to recommend Neutron as a
> replacement for Nova-Network in the future.
>
> --
> Sean M. Collins
>
>
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