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#openstack-nova - 2020-01-29
16:17:09 stephenfin tox -e function --recreate ?
16:17:17 stephenfin *al
16:18:32 stephenfin unless you're using stestr without tox, which is odd
16:18:57 stephenfin seeing as you can do stuff like 'tox -e functional -- -n path_to_functional_test.py::TestClass.test_method'
16:22:34 bauzas stephenfin: that's what I did
16:22:51 bauzas and I ended up with stestr==2.6.0
16:23:24 bauzas I always asked to run a subset of tests by doing tox -efunc <my_regex>
16:23:27 bauzas and it worked
16:24:57 stephenfin bauzas: That's what I have too. Working fine here
16:25:17 bauzas checking with stestr==2.5.0
16:25:38 bauzas functional runtests: commands[0] | stestr --test-path=./nova/tests/functional run test_nova_manage
16:25:42 bauzas mmmmm
16:26:21 stephenfin bauzas: '$ tox -e functional -- test_nova_manage' wfm
16:27:05 bauzas I never had to use the positional markers, but whatever, gonna try
16:27:41 bauzas crazy, still same issue
16:28:07 stephenfin want to dump the complete output to paste.o.o
16:28:19 stephenfin it's something simple, I'd suspect
16:30:06 bauzas yeah me too, but can't see the problem
16:30:22 bauzas it's just stestr which doesn't sound to accept --test-path
16:30:24 bauzas http://paste.openstack.org/show/788935/
16:31:11 bauzas actually, nope
16:33:59 bauzas well, I'm puzzled
16:34:37 stephenfin ah, wait, have you added additional tests for nova-manage?
16:35:13 stephenfin There's a bug with oslo.config whereby the CLI parser is global'ish
16:35:49 stephenfin Yeah, '--remote_debug-port' is a nova-manage option. You're not mocking stuff properly
16:38:06 stephenfin bauzas: mriedem saw the issue pop up in a unit test at https://review.opendev.org/#/c/694806/2/ and it's currently causing an issue with glance and the latest version of cliff
16:40:19 bauzas stephenfin: interesting, if I use the functional-py36 target, it does work
16:40:49 stephenfin even if you rebuild the venv?
16:41:03 bauzas it was created, I never used the target yet
16:41:13 stephenfin gotcha
16:41:20 stephenfin weird
16:41:24 stephenfin then I'm not sure :(
16:41:25 bauzas to make it clear, the functional-py36 target works, but not the standard one
16:41:53 bauzas either way, I know what to do, but I have to look at the target differences in tox.ini
16:42:32 efried bauzas: would it be productive for me to read the current PS of the numa topo spec, or wait til you rev it?
16:43:06 bauzas efried: I'm wraping my head around the group_policy issue, but your thoughts could be helpful
16:43:59 bauzas efried: and we have a disagreement on the memory modeling with NUMA with sean-k-mooney, your opinion could help us finding a consensus
16:44:25 bauzas efried: to answer your question, yeah comments would be appreciated on the current rev
16:44:32 efried okay, I'll give it a read. My view on group_policy is that we should be ignoring it. It doesn't really have a place with granular groups and the other knobs we put in in recent microversions.
16:44:59 efried I at least proposed (though I don't remember if we actually pulled the trigger on this) making it no longer required in a recent microversion.
16:45:09 sean-k-mooney bauzas: sorry can we pick this up after the internal call
16:45:19 sean-k-mooney e.g. in 15 mins
16:45:29 bauzas sean-k-mooney: yeah, and I even wanted to discuss it during the internal call :D
16:45:42 bauzas (but I'm superseded by other topics :) )
16:45:52 sean-k-mooney ya i saw
16:47:14 efried I won't be much help on the memory modeling, probably, as I really don't understand that level of detail of NUMA itself. But I'll give it a shot.
16:48:38 bauzas tbh, me too
16:49:13 bauzas the big question is should we iteratively model huge pages and have memory split now, or care about the whole now ?
16:51:02 efried I'll have to refresh my memory (heh) on whether we did things to support cross-provider accumulation of resources, e.g. so you could still land on a NUMA-modeled host with 128/128 if you asked for 256.
16:52:10 efried I seem to recall we tried to KISS by saying you land on a NUMA-modeled host by asking for NUMA-modeled resources, and the converse, but that may have only been a point in time in the discussion, not where we landed.
16:52:15 efried I'll have to swap this all back in.
16:53:05 bauzas efried: yeah that's what I recall too
17:03:35 openstackgerrit Vladyslav Drok proposed openstack/nova master: Fix volume attachment rollback https://review.opendev.org/704847
17:07:39 efried nts: we did abandon "can_split" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/658510/
17:08:03 sean-k-mooney yes we did
17:09:29 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: for that memory issue, is there a reason we need to continue to support floating memory when NUMA is used?
17:09:49 stephenfin do we do strict NUMA affinity when using a NUMA topology at the moment?
17:09:52 sean-k-mooney that depends. yes but the question is do we care
17:10:06 stephenfin for memory, that is
17:10:13 sean-k-mooney we would have to pin the memoyy based on the placemetn allocation of all vms
17:10:18 stephenfin I think we don't unless we explicitly request a pagesize, yeah?
17:10:34 sean-k-mooney but for vms with out a numa toplogy we could pin that vm aross host numa nodes
17:11:00 stephenfin okay, so that leads to my question: do we need to support that model?
17:11:10 stephenfin VMs with a NUMA topology alongside those without?
17:11:13 efried Again, I think we decided it was acceptable to enforce a segregated data center
17:11:15 sean-k-mooney if we want to support vms without a numa toplogy yes
17:11:21 efried where some hosts are NUMA-aware and some are not.
17:11:26 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: we could have a knob
17:11:32 stephenfin use_numa_in_placement
17:11:38 efried And if you ask for a NUMA topo, you land on the former, always, exclusively. And the converse.
17:11:46 stephenfin efried: right, thing we're talking about the same thing
17:11:48 stephenfin *think
17:11:54 sean-k-mooney i would prefer to handel it via resouce classes
17:12:05 sean-k-mooney so if you report memory_mb its non numa aware memory
17:12:12 efried Except for the upgrade issue, I think it wouldn't matter.
17:12:17 sean-k-mooney if you reprot mempage_small its numa aware
17:12:31 efried Upgrade is my only concern about doing MEMORY_MB now and pages later.
17:12:40 efried because now you have flavors that straddle both models
17:12:52 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: right, but that's duplication
17:12:57 efried but they are mutually exclusive as to the hosts they work with.
17:12:58 sean-k-mooney same for the cpu if you use VCPU its not numa aware and on the root provider if it SCPU its numa aware shared cpu
17:13:03 stephenfin and instances will have to consume both
17:13:08 stephenfin assuming we report both
17:13:11 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: no the host would only report one or the other
17:13:18 efried We shouldn't have the same resource represented by two different resource classes. We've nacked that idea many times in the past.
17:13:24 stephenfin what determines what type we report?
17:13:32 sean-k-mooney we did it with pcpus and vcpus
17:14:01 sean-k-mooney but if we say that then MEMORY_MB is not the correct baseline for memory
17:14:02 efried eh? No, the PCPU and VCPU counts represent different physical processors.
17:14:27 stephenfin oh, so you're saying instead of having a "turn on NUMA" flag, we have two flags: one for non-NUMA memory and one for NUMA memory?
17:14:28 efried yeah, I think we ought to bite the bullet on memory. If we're ever going to want it to be something other than MEMORY_MB, we should do that now.
17:14:29 sean-k-mooney they represetn different pools of hardware threads
17:14:40 sean-k-mooney but they are both the resouces
17:14:47 sean-k-mooney we just treat them as if they are different
17:14:48 efried my point is, they don't overlap
17:15:19 sean-k-mooney right so i think we should be modeling memory as mempages of a specifc size
17:15:34 sean-k-mooney we already do in the resouce tracker in the host numa toplogy blob
17:15:39 efried If we have N pages that total to M mb of ram, we should *either* model PAGES=N *or* MEMORY_MB=M, but *never* both at the same time.
17:15:48 efried I think we're agreeing on that, just want to be clear.
17:15:59 stephenfin Yup

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