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#openstack-nova - 2019-11-04
15:30:01 donnyd Mine are so slow compared to others
15:30:12 mriedem looking dstat when this messaging timeout happened https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/ef0196fe84804b44ac106d011c8c29ea/log/controller/logs/screen-n-api.txt.gz?severity=4 around the time of the timeout cpu usage is low, io is basically 0 and load is spiked
15:30:31 donnyd The biggest difference for FN is local NVME storage for all instances
15:30:43 cdent question: isn't this something infra will already have a plan and solution for?
15:30:52 cdent this is what cloud mgt/provisioning is all about, presumably?
15:31:11 mriedem i wonder if these providers live migrate the ci vms around frequently?
15:31:30 donnyd If there was a way to benchmark providers and then prefer them for jobs that are bound by something I think we could optimize the CI
15:32:19 donnyd Butttt.... if that provider breaks or goes away the issue becomes jobs failing because they were dependent on that super fast thing provider_x does
15:32:28 mriedem cdent: infra is just tenants so i'm not sure how much control they have
15:32:48 mriedem besides may requesting minimums in a flavor or something
15:32:49 mriedem ?
15:32:51 cdent mriedem: but presumably they can tweak their consumption?
15:32:53 mriedem *maybe
15:32:54 donnyd mriedem: well a simple benchmark could expose what jobs run optimal
15:34:19 donnyd That was my idea and it got quickly struck down because of the issue listed above efried
15:35:42 donnyd I do all kinds of custom things and so does mnaser at vexxhost to support the CI... not sure how much usage it gets though. I think limestone is on board with it as well
15:35:45 efried ah, thanks donnyd, I remember now
15:35:51 donnyd NP
15:36:01 donnyd Hopefully that helps
15:36:17 efried So really $provider needs to be able to run $job. In this case ovh needs to go figure out what the bottleneck is and fix it.
15:36:31 donnyd Bingo
15:36:44 efried even if it's by reducing the number of nodes they provide
15:36:49 donnyd But they probably don't even know its an issue till someone complains
15:36:59 efried not sure where else to complain
15:37:08 donnyd probably infra
15:37:10 efried openstack-discuss@ has a thread
15:37:44 donnyd You can always schedule the job using maybe the numa label made for sean-k-mooney
15:38:00 efried I guess we wait until after the summit then, infra folks are going to be pretty sparse for the next week I imagine.
15:38:05 donnyd That would ensure the job runs on FN vexxhost or limestone if I am not mistaken
15:38:12 efried donnyd: yeah, but you have to put that in the job def itself, right?
15:38:26 efried You can't do it one off to make a particular patch merge
15:38:29 donnyd Yea, you have to assign it a label
15:38:31 donnyd No
15:38:44 donnyd Sry, that is correct efried
15:38:44 efried that's our problem here, getting approved patches through the gate.
15:39:16 donnyd Well patch the job with that label... then it will run anyways wont it
15:39:20 efried heh, we should just change all our devstack-based job defs to run on the fast providers...
15:39:33 donnyd Well I wouldn't call FN fast
15:39:36 efried wait until somebody notices
15:39:41 efried okay, s/fast/reliable/
15:39:43 donnyd Just better at IO bound jobs
15:40:06 efried Yeah, I would rather my patch take 2h and succeed than 1.5h and fail.
15:40:17 donnyd I'm sure ironic and tripleo hate FN because my CPUs are old
15:40:41 donnyd And they are mostly CPU bound
15:40:54 donnyd Give it a swing with the label
15:41:05 donnyd And if it works, you have a bandaid
15:42:21 openstackgerrit Eric Fried proposed openstack/nova master: Add cyborg tempest job. https://review.opendev.org/670999
16:14:29 efried donnyd: I wasn't serious about the label. That would be pretty publicly greedy of us.
16:19:19 dansmith mriedem: question for you in here while I look at the test: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/635646/48/nova/conductor/tasks/cross_cell_migrate.py
16:19:50 dansmith holy hell, everything in the check/gate are running tests and only minutes old
16:19:58 dansmith we should send the whole community to china more often
16:24:15 donnyd Well not really efried
16:24:45 donnyd If a job has requirements to run and a specific label meets the requirements then I don't see the issue
16:25:02 donnyd But it's your call... just pointing out the options
16:26:44 mriedem dansmith: thanks, replied
16:27:18 mriedem dansmith: is my sarcasm detector picking this up correctly? https://review.opendev.org/#/c/635080/48/nova/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_mgr.py@10545
16:27:32 dansmith mriedem: yes.
16:28:02 mriedem heh, verbose commentage is how i keep from feeling lonely
16:34:55 dansmith mriedem: oops, my "...yes I see" was supposed to go into the fault_clone complaint nit
16:35:13 dansmith went back to note that and picked the wrong comment to edit
16:35:48 dansmith mriedem: one more question
16:40:30 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/nova master: Use long_rpc_timeout in conductor migrate_server RPC API call https://review.opendev.org/692550
16:41:03 mriedem replied
16:43:04 mriedem agree about the mapping == add a unit test wrinkle for that?
16:43:23 mriedem will do - and the variable name nits
16:45:58 dansmith cool
16:48:27 efried dansmith: I just put a bunch more words in the 'flavor groups' spec. Would you still be -1 if the answer to the backward compat question were "you can ignore flavor groups and keep doing extra specs forever"? IMO there's still too much complexity (most of which still isn't addressed) to make it worthwhile.
16:49:08 efried whoah, that timeout patch merged already?? Didn't we approve it like an hour ago??
16:49:13 dansmith efried: you mean would I still be effectively -2 I assume
16:49:21 efried yeah
16:50:22 dansmith efried: and without reading, you mean keeping extra_specs for the hard flavor case and only allowing the groups for compose-ability? I still think it's practically useless without some way to define which things can be composed, and agree it's far too much change to too many fundamental things to be worth it or viable
16:50:22 efried pretty sure we're in agreement on it, I'm just wondering how aggressively I/we should say "despite feeding you paths to address all the holes, don't bother doing that, because this is going to die anyway"
16:50:41 efried yeah, that's more or less what I said.
16:50:44 efried in the review
16:51:11 dansmith I think I'm still effectively -2 even with keeping extra_specs for those reasons, yeah
16:51:46 dansmith I think that it's legit to -2 something like this on "this isn't the direction we want to go" and if you and I both -2 it for that reason, I think that is a fairly tight case
16:51:54 dansmith it's not like we haven't considered it or reviewed it in detail
16:52:23 dansmith certainly don't want to just flip him the bird, but you wanted to be more upfront with people (as do I) so... that'd be pretty upfront
16:52:29 efried yeah, right now we're both -1.9 I think, but I don't want the author to take our -1s as a message that he should go try to fill it in.
16:52:38 dansmith yeah, fair point
16:52:54 dansmith I tried to call out my effectively -2ness for that reason, but maybe -2 would be better
16:53:11 efried so if you wouldn't mind reading my latest comments (when you get a chance) and if you agree with what I'm saying, go ahead and -2 and I'll follow suit.
16:53:21 dansmith sure
16:53:22 efried thx
16:53:46 mriedem i have run into "I don't want the author to take our -1s as a message that he should go try to fill it in." on a couple of specs for ussuri even though i've said a few times, "i don't think we need to do this, the existing alternatives or sufficient or this doesn't fit with the project IMO" but the specs continue to be updated
16:54:07 mriedem *are sufficient
16:54:29 mriedem i probably haven't -2ed because they are mostly trivial things to do, just plumbing,
16:54:40 mriedem not anywhere near the complexity of this flavor groups tihng
16:54:42 mriedem *thing
16:56:10 cdent Explicit words might be the way to go.
16:57:27 dansmith cdent: my words were explicit, but I hedged on the vote
16:57:44 dansmith because people sometimes accuse me of closing the door to further reviews with a -2 or even a -1
16:58:02 cdent well closing the door is what's wanted here, yeah?
16:58:22 dansmith well,
16:58:38 dansmith yes, but I want to do that in concert with other reviewers, like efried and I just did
16:59:20 dansmith so which do I need to kill? there is public, private, and shared
16:59:25 dansmith oops, wrong window
16:59:42 cdent all three /me is all for early kills
16:59:45 cdent !
17:02:48 mriedem https://review.opendev.org/#/c/682302/ and https://review.opendev.org/#/c/580336/ are the ones i'm struggling with fwiw

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