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#openstack-nova - 2026-07-06
14:20:08 sean-k-mooney and either an operator will need to fix it with nova-manage or you will need to rebuild
14:20:33 sean-k-mooney so the best i think we can do is log a warning
14:20:42 tkajinam that's correct, though the existing instance may have only bios boot with firmware_stateless=False which is incorrect
14:20:43 tkajinam ok
14:20:52 tkajinam I'll drop the validation and then add a warning message there
14:52:07 opendevreview Ashish Gupta proposed openstack/nova master: tests: file-backed SQLite with WAL in threading mode for Database and CellDatabases Fixtures https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/988583
14:56:09 opendevreview Ashish Gupta proposed openstack/nova master: tests: use file-backed Placement SQLite in functional threading https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/992581
14:58:18 Uggla Reminder: upstream meeting in ~ 1h
15:04:16 opendevreview Ashish Gupta proposed openstack/nova master: tests: Use per-database write locks instead of global lock https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/992862
15:25:28 opendevreview Takashi Kajinami proposed openstack/nova master: Accept hw_firmware_stateless=True for BIOS firmware type https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/995835
15:26:37 mhen tkajinam: I won't be able to attend today's meeting but I'll see if I can do some tinkering with my SEV-SNP node tomorrow regarding my comment in https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/994930 and report back
15:27:40 tkajinam mhen, thanks
15:28:20 tkajinam mhen, if libvirt isn't able to correct the correct rom firmware then I suspect something is still wrong in libvirt firmware detection or descriptor file
15:28:46 tkajinam the selection logic was updated to treat type: rom as stateless so stateless=true should trigger usage of type: rom (unless nothing else is selected)
15:29:32 tkajinam I suspect there is still a legacy descriptor file with sev-snp I have to check which firmware is actually selected and how its descriptor looks like
15:30:57 opendevreview Takashi Kajinami proposed openstack/nova master: compute: Validate SEV/SEV-ES support at start up https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/994342
15:31:09 opendevreview Takashi Kajinami proposed openstack/nova master: libvirt: Ignore SEV-ES when SEV-SNP is detected https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/994343
15:43:51 opendevreview Merged openstack/nova master: Return 400 for invalid properties for locked memory https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/995813
16:00:45 opendevmeet The meeting name has been set to 'nova'
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16:00:45 opendevmeet Meeting started Mon Jul 6 16:00:45 2026 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is Uggla. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
16:00:45 Uggla #startmeeting nova
16:00:55 Uggla Hello everyone
16:01:06 fwiesel o/
16:01:08 tkajinam o/
16:02:11 sambork o/
16:02:38 Uggla Let's start
16:02:41 Uggla #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
16:02:54 Uggla #info No Critical bug
16:03:04 Uggla #topic Gate status
16:03:12 Uggla #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=gate-failure Nova gate bugs
16:03:21 Uggla #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-ci-failures-minimal
16:03:31 Uggla #link https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Fnova&project=openstack%2Fplacement&branch=stable%2F*&branch=master&pipeline=periodic-weekly&skip=0 Nova&Placement periodic jobs status
16:03:41 Uggla #info Please look at the gate failures and file a bug report with the gate-failure tag.
16:03:47 Uggla #info Please try to provide a meaningful comment when you recheck
16:04:36 Uggla Looking quickly at the gate, that looks ok. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
16:05:02 Uggla #topic Release Planning
16:05:09 Uggla #link https://releases.openstack.org/hibiscus/schedule.html
16:05:15 Uggla #info Nova deadlines are set in the above schedule
16:05:21 Uggla #info PTG etherpad for 2026.2 is available: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-ptg
16:05:40 bauzas o/
16:06:01 Uggla Nothing special on planning, we are ~5 weeks before Nova implementation review day
16:06:23 Uggla #topic Review priorities
16:06:32 Uggla #link New file for Hibiscus https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-status
16:06:38 Uggla #info I have updated Launchpad and the above doc. Please ping me if you spot something missing.
16:06:43 Uggla #info Starting: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-status#L16 interesting bugs to review.
16:07:01 Uggla Skipping Elod points because he is on pto
16:07:12 Uggla #topic vmwareapi 3rd-party CI efforts Highlights
16:07:22 Uggla fwiesel something you'd like to share.
16:07:27 fwiesel Hi
16:07:43 fwiesel I'm investigating recent failures in the pipeline.
16:07:44 fwiesel I haven't gotten quite hold of the root cause yet
16:08:20 fwiesel Bear with me, i hope I'll get it fixed tomorrow
16:08:34 fwiesel That's from my side
16:08:37 Uggla fwiesel 👍
16:09:04 Uggla thx
16:09:05 sean-k-mooney o/
16:09:16 Uggla #topic Kamil's news about eventlet removal
16:10:13 sambork https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/988583, https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/placement/+/993106)
16:10:13 sambork So today we almost landed changes that add a config option to run with eventlet/threading mode. As a segue from that, we should have data from the performance run with logs in the next few days. The first run indicates a probable degradation in the rally tests. Other than that, Ashish made progress with the unit testing patches (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/992862, https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/992581,
16:11:23 sambork I think thats i,t we didn't progress with anything else, and I give mic back (or maybe gibi have something to add)
16:11:35 gibi I started looking at the functional test series from Ashish again today but I will need more time to have comments there
16:11:42 gibi nothing else
16:12:26 Uggla thanks sambork and gibi
16:12:41 Uggla skipping Layos topic
16:12:49 Uggla #topic Ironic review priorities
16:13:03 Uggla cardoe do you have something ot share with us ?
16:13:23 cardoe We've rebased the startup-time series at https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22startup-time%22
16:14:02 cardoe The spec for trunk ports in the metadata is still ready to go as well as are the patches.
16:14:07 cardoe But that's all I've got.
16:14:24 Uggla thanks cardoe
16:14:51 Uggla #topic Confidential computing, status of SNP and TDX features
16:15:35 Uggla and gibi
16:15:57 antia Resuming development this week, was on PTO last week
16:16:14 gibi antia: welcome back :)
16:16:38 tkajinam The implementations for SEV-SNP are still up for review. gibi already provided review many feedbacks and also completed the end to end testing (thanks a lot !!)
16:17:11 Uggla 👍
16:17:14 gibi yeah for me that series looks good
16:18:06 tkajinam gibi, just fyi. there is a problem pointed by sean in one of the base changes. I fixed it but I have to rebase the other changes later.
16:18:25 bauzas yeah I started to look at the series
16:18:37 tkajinam there are a few more feedbacks by sean-k-mooney I still have to check. I'm afraid it might be quite tricky to address these cleanly soon, and might need some more discussions to find out a good balance.
16:18:39 bauzas thanks tkajinam I'll continue to review then
16:18:47 tkajinam bauzas, thanks !
16:19:13 sean-k-mooney tkajinam: libvirt has the snp cpaablity in domain caps
16:19:21 gibi tkajinam: ack, I can do a quick re-test tomorrow. But then I have to give the HW back
16:19:21 sean-k-mooney ill post an xml dump of that shortly
16:19:31 tkajinam sean-k-mooney, no it does not reflect actual cpu feature.
16:19:40 tkajinam sean-k-mooney, it only shows whether libvirt supports it.
16:19:53 sean-k-mooney ok but chekcing kernel option or proc is not ok
16:19:59 tkajinam we should detect snp is enabled in bios, then appears in cpu flag
16:20:02 sean-k-mooney so if we cant trust libvirt when it reports it
16:20:11 sean-k-mooney then 1 that is a bug that shoudl be fixed in libvirt
16:20:16 sean-k-mooney and 2 we woudl need a config option in nova
16:20:31 sean-k-mooney it repots
16:20:33 sean-k-mooney <launchSecurity supported='yes'>
16:20:35 sean-k-mooney <enum name='sectype'>
16:20:37 sean-k-mooney <value>sev</value>
16:20:39 sean-k-mooney <value>sev-snp</value>
16:20:41 sean-k-mooney </enum>
16:20:43 sean-k-mooney </launchSecurity>

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