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#openstack-nova - 2020-03-02
15:26:08 dansmith yeah, okay, just thinking about maybe some lighter way to do that
15:26:13 sean-k-mooney dansmith: this is more or less the local.confs im using http://paste.openstack.org/show/789773/
15:26:36 sean-k-mooney dansmith: ya i have 32G of ram on my laptop so 2 8G vms is fine
15:26:45 sean-k-mooney the config trick might work
15:26:53 sean-k-mooney but it just felt like more effort
15:26:55 dansmith yeah, ram isn't the problem
15:26:57 dansmith could be
15:29:33 sean-k-mooney do you want me to kick off a ci run with the latest set of patches sundar pushed
15:30:35 sean-k-mooney i basically just need to recheck https://review.opendev.org/#/c/709641/ or update the depends-on url to point to the latest patch in the cain
15:31:11 dansmith sean-k-mooney: yeah, would be good I think
15:31:14 sean-k-mooney dansmith: removing the singelton seemed to resolve all the auth issues
15:31:17 dansmith I'm working through those now
15:31:21 dansmith sean-k-mooney: nice :)
15:32:14 sean-k-mooney ok ill point it to pull in the last funcitonal patch in the cain which is the one that block unsupported opperation and we can get the job to assert they all fail/are rejected as we expect
15:35:32 sean-k-mooney cool thats running we will know in about an hour
15:35:44 dansmith schweet
15:40:09 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/nova master: Introduce scope_types in os-evacuate https://review.opendev.org/708235
16:17:11 openstackgerrit John Garbutt proposed openstack/nova master: Add a tests to check when legacy access is removed https://review.opendev.org/710813
16:25:06 openstackgerrit John Garbutt proposed openstack/nova master: Add a tests to check when legacy access is removed https://review.opendev.org/710813
16:29:50 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/nova master: Add test coverage of existing os-agents policies https://review.opendev.org/701644
16:58:09 sean-k-mooney dansmith: the test run is still executing but i am seeing some failes as expected. however the error code is 500 which seams incorrect
16:58:16 sean-k-mooney Body: b'{"computeFault": {"code": 500, "message": "Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.\\n"}}' Body: b'{"computeFault": {"code": 500, "message": "Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.\\n
16:58:18 sean-k-mooney \'nova.exception.ForbiddenWithAccelerators\'>"}}'
16:58:33 sean-k-mooney it should be a 4XX error correct
16:58:38 dansmith ah yeah
16:58:58 openstackgerrit Balazs Gibizer proposed openstack/nova master: WIP: Hey let's support routed networks y'all! https://review.opendev.org/656885
17:00:05 sean-k-mooney it looks like it should be a 403 here which i dont think is correct either https://review.opendev.org/#/c/674726/3/nova/exception.py
17:00:21 sean-k-mooney ill wait till the jobs completes and check the api log
17:00:29 sean-k-mooney the 500 might be a tempest error code
17:00:56 sean-k-mooney its hard to tell just form the job console
17:16:48 Sundar sean-k-mooney: The error response comes from https://review.opendev.org/#/c/674726/3/nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py@758 . I see other similar operations grouped in that segment.
17:17:25 sean-k-mooney the job just finished https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/0f144bf83a614d31938d353a1bb05935
17:17:37 sean-k-mooney im going to confirm if the 500 is from tempest or nova
17:17:45 Sundar I have tested it from the 'openstack server ...' CLI, so I don;t think it is tempest
17:18:26 sean-k-mooney well the "computefault" bit makes me think its from tempest
17:19:12 Sundar You would see a 500 error if you do 'openstack server suspend foo'.
17:19:34 sean-k-mooney its not a server error so it should not be a 500
17:19:46 sean-k-mooney its a client error because you requested an unsupported operation
17:20:16 sean-k-mooney so it s houl be either a 400 "bad request" 409 "conflict" or 405 "method not supported"
17:20:31 sean-k-mooney proably a 400 or 409 we dont use 405 as far as i know
17:23:28 sean-k-mooney Sundar: so yes we are raising the exeption but it is not being caught and its being converted into a 500 http://paste.openstack.org/show/790209/
17:25:55 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/nova master: Define Cyborg ARQ binding notification event. https://review.opendev.org/692707
17:26:23 Sundar sean-k-mooney: Hmm, let me see what's happening with https://review.opendev.org/#/c/674726/3/nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py@758
17:27:12 sean-k-mooney the block operation patch needs to be rewored to only block operation that dont work
17:28:38 Sundar sean-k-mooney: Unless I have proven or validated that an op works, I have blocked it. There are many ops that I have not validated, such as backup. Plus, there are grounds to suspect such ops won't always work, since there is state in the accelerator.
17:28:51 sean-k-mooney Sundar: yep which im hard -1 on
17:29:13 sean-k-mooney im ok with blocking ops we know wont work
17:29:28 sean-k-mooney im not ok with blocking ops just because we feel like it.
17:29:48 Sundar It is safer to block an op than let it loose and document that it is untested with accelerators. I thought we had discussed that.
17:30:23 Sundar Not 'we feel like it;, but whether it is tested and whether there are grounds to believe it will work dafely all the time
17:30:26 sean-k-mooney we agreed not to block the ops and just document them
17:30:28 Sundar *safely
17:30:41 sean-k-mooney that is why https://review.opendev.org/#/c/674726 was abandoned
17:30:55 Sundar Hmm, I recall otherwise. Let me look for past IRC discussions.
17:31:39 sean-k-mooney we can bring it back but i dont think its ok to block things like rebuild or volume based snapthot when we know they should work and they do work at least with the fake driver
17:39:22 Sundar sean-k-mooney: Here is our past discussion: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-nova/%23openstack-nova.2020-02-07.log.html#t2020-02-07T19:17:13 . I see different opinions, but you still want the doc-only approach. But you do agree that people won't read the docs till things break
17:39:23 Sundar (http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-nova/%23openstack-nova.2020-02-07.log.html#t2020-02-07T19:31:39)
17:39:54 Sundar Is it not safer to block an unproven op (but only for accelerators obviously)?
17:40:09 Sundar I am not si sure that snapshots will work
17:40:11 sean-k-mooney that is form last month not form when we deiced not to block everything before christmas
17:40:24 sean-k-mooney a live snapshot will work
17:40:41 sean-k-mooney a cold snapshot might should too
17:40:53 sean-k-mooney since it stops the vm and then starts it after
17:41:37 Sundar A snapshot is going to save the mmap'd buffers in VM memory, and bring it back on restore. But the accelerator state would have changed in between as the VM continued op. So, on restore, the buffers in the VM will not match the accelerator contents.
17:42:07 sean-k-mooney Sundar: no it wont
17:42:21 sean-k-mooney a snappshot only makes a copy of the root disk
17:42:38 sean-k-mooney its not the same as a vm snapshot in virtual box or hyperv
17:42:44 Sundar I thought there's an option to do snapshot with RAM.
17:42:51 sean-k-mooney no
17:42:57 sean-k-mooney not in the libvirt dirver
17:43:10 sean-k-mooney you can do that with qemu but not via nova
17:43:13 Sundar libvirt allows it -- but apparently not the Nova libvirt driver?
17:43:27 Sundar I see
17:43:38 sean-k-mooney yes becasue we have no where to store the ram dump
17:44:31 sean-k-mooney we could in theory upload it as a second image to glace or something but snapshot in the nova api is just of the disk
17:46:00 Sundar Are you able to check snapshot with FPGA-attached VMs? I'll try too -- but what works in the lab may not always work in the field.
17:46:41 sean-k-mooney i have not deployed on real hardware so no.
17:48:40 Sundar I would say that it is safer to block something rather than speculatively allow it. Do you have users who strongly need snapshots with accelerators?
17:49:43 sean-k-mooney not specifically but i would not consider movingit form techpreview without it
17:50:10 sean-k-mooney in the curent patch there are no ways to do any move operation and you cant resuceu or snapshot the vm
17:50:28 sean-k-mooney so there is 0 way to do maintaince on the host or recover in the case of a vailure
17:50:33 sean-k-mooney even evacuate is blocked
17:50:58 sean-k-mooney as is adding or removeing volumes or interfaces
17:51:22 sean-k-mooney so with only the abilty to boot and delete a vm we would not support this in productin for customer to use
17:52:21 sean-k-mooney thats a downstrema desciion however. it wont affect if we support this in upstream
17:52:56 Sundar I see your concern. The real solution is to test these ops well with real accelerators and real-ish workloads (not sample bitstreams). I'll pass that on to my Cyborg/Intel colleagues.
17:53:22 Sundar Meanwhile, based on your input, I could remove the blocks on snapshot and rescue. Presumably backup too?
17:54:16 sean-k-mooney backup is basicaly a cron job in the nova code that calls snapshot and clean up old snapshots
17:54:27 sean-k-mooney so if snapshot work then back will
17:55:24 sean-k-mooney im not sure about rescue. it should work but i dont know if the acclerator will be aviable while its in resuce state
17:55:53 sean-k-mooney if the accelerator in not present in the vm during or after resuce has been completed then we might need to block it
17:56:32 Sundar Since the rescue brings in a different disk image, which may not have the right device drivers, it probably will not. The unrescue to the previous image "should" work.
17:57:04 sean-k-mooney oh the other hand not everyone would need the acclerator to be present during resuce so as long as we dont loose itafter unrescue we should be ok
17:57:23 Sundar Ok. So rescue is in. What about suspend? It doesn't work today because we don't have the code to handle accelerators in that path.
17:57:51 sean-k-mooney suspend wont work without a code change so ya that can remain blocked
17:58:31 openstackgerrit Mark Goddard proposed openstack/nova master: Fix PCI passthrough race on reschedule (claims) https://review.opendev.org/710847
17:58:32 openstackgerrit Mark Goddard proposed openstack/nova master: Fix PCI passthrough race on reschedule (refresh) https://review.opendev.org/710848
17:59:23 Sundar sean-k-mooney: The other 2 ops mentioned in https://review.opendev.org/#/c/674726/3/nova/tests/functional/test_servers.py are rebuild and resize.
17:59:42 dansmith Sundar: sean-k-mooney just catching up, but if we can't support snapshot, that's a huge problem IMHO (although I like sean-k-mooney think it's likely not a problem)
18:00:19 dansmith if rescue doesn't include the accelerator I don't think we should block it

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