[openstack-dev] [neutron] [OVN] Tempest API / Scenario tests and OVN metadata

Sławek Kapłoński slawek at kaplonski.pl
Fri Apr 6 17:04:29 UTC 2018


Hi,

Another idea is to modify test that it will:
1. Check how many ports are in tenant,
2. Set quota to actual number of ports + 1 instead of hardcoded 1 as it is now,
3. Try to add 2 ports - exactly as it is now,

I think that this should be still backend agnostic and should fix this problem.

> Wiadomość napisana przez Sławek Kapłoński <slawek at kaplonski.pl> w dniu 06.04.2018, o godz. 17:08:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don’t know how networking-ovn is working but I have one question.
> 
> 
>> Wiadomość napisana przez Daniel Alvarez Sanchez <dalvarez at redhat.com> w dniu 06.04.2018, o godz. 15:30:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks Lucas for writing this down.
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasagomes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The tests below are failing in the tempest API / Scenario job that
>> runs in the networking-ovn gate (non-voting):
>> 
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.admin.test_quotas_negative.QuotasAdminNegativeTestJSON.test_create_port_when_quotas_is_full
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.test_routers.RoutersIpV6Test.test_router_interface_status
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.test_routers.RoutersTest.test_router_interface_status
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.test_subnetpools.SubnetPoolsTest.test_create_subnet_from_pool_with_prefixlen
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.test_subnetpools.SubnetPoolsTest.test_create_subnet_from_pool_with_quota
>> neutron_tempest_plugin.api.test_subnetpools.SubnetPoolsTest.test_create_subnet_from_pool_with_subnet_cidr
>> 
>> Digging a bit into it I noticed that with the exception of the two
>> "test_router_interface_status" (ipv6 and ipv4) all other tests are
>> failing because the way metadata works in networking-ovn.
>> 
>> Taking the "test_create_port_when_quotas_is_full" as an example. The
>> reason why it fails is because when the OVN metadata is enabled,
>> networking-ovn will metadata port at the moment a network is created
>> [0] and that will already fulfill the quota limit set by that test
>> [1].
>> 
>> That port will also allocate an IP from the subnet which will cause
>> the rest of the tests to fail with a "No more IP addresses available
>> on network ..." error.
>> 
>> With ML2/OVS we would run into the same Quota problem if DHCP would be
>> enabled for the created subnets. This means that if we modify the current tests
>> to enable DHCP on them and we account this extra port it would be valid for
>> all networking-ovn as well. Does it sound good or we still want to isolate quotas?
> 
> If DHCP will be enabled for networking-ovn, will it use one more port also or not? If so then You will still have the same problem with DHCP as in ML2/OVS You will have one port created and for networking-ovn it will be 2 ports.
> If it’s not like that then I think that this solution, with some comment in test code why DHCP is enabled should be good IMO.
> 
>> 
>> This is not very trivial to fix because:
>> 
>> 1. Tempest should be backend agnostic. So, adding a conditional in the
>> tempest test to check whether OVN is being used or not doesn't sound
>> correct.
>> 
>> 2. Creating a port to be used by the metadata agent is a core part of
>> the design implementation for the metadata functionality [2]
>> 
>> So, I'm sending this email to try to figure out what would be the best
>> approach to deal with this problem and start working towards having
>> that job to be voting in our gate. Here are some ideas:
>> 
>> 1. Simple disable the tests that are affected by the metadata approach.
>> 
>> 2. Disable metadata for the tempest API / Scenario tests (here's a
>> test patch doing it [3])
>> 
>> IMHO, we don't want to do this as metadata is likely to be enabled in all the
>> clouds either using ML2/OVS or OVN so it's good to keep exercising
>> this part.
>> 
>> 
>> 3. Same as 1. but also create similar tempest tests specific for OVN
>> somewhere else (in the networking-ovn tree?!)
>> 
>> As we discussed on IRC I'm keen on doing this instead of getting bits in
>> tempest to do different things depending on the backend used. Unless
>> we want to enable DHCP on the subnets that these tests create :)
>> 
>> 
>> What you think would be the best way to workaround this problem, any
>> other ideas ?
>> 
>> As for the "test_router_interface_status" tests that are failing
>> independent of the metadata, there's a bug reporting the problem here
>> [4]. So we should just fix it.
>> 
>> [0] https://github.com/openstack/networking-ovn/blob/f3f5257fc465bbf44d589cc16e9ef7781f6b5b1d/networking_ovn/common/ovn_client.py#L1154
>> [1] https://github.com/openstack/neutron-tempest-plugin/blob/35bf37d1830328d72606f9c790b270d4fda2b854/neutron_tempest_plugin/api/admin/test_quotas_negative.py#L66
>> [2] https://docs.openstack.org/networking-ovn/latest/contributor/design/metadata_api.html#overview-of-proposed-approach
>> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/558792/
>> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-ovn/+bug/1713835
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Lucas
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
>> 
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