[Gluster-devel] Regression tests and improvement ideas

Wed Jun 17 16:57:33 UTC 2015

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On Jun 17, 2015 10:20 PM, "Anand Nekkunti" <anekkunt at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>  I have  suggestion to improve regression test.
> Issue :   We are calling cleanup function at the starting and ending of
each test (twice for each test ).
> #time prove -vf  tests/bugs/glusterd/cleanup.t     #(cleanup function
called 20 times in loop ) -- find attached file
> real    0m29.140s
> time taken cleanup function = 30/20 = ~1.5 sec
> #grep -rn "cleanup" ./tests/ |wc -l
> 808
>   808 times cleanup function called during regression test
>   Time taken by cleanup in regression test =1.5 * 808 =1212 sec = 20.2 min
>   Total time taken by both regression =20.2 * 2 = 40.4 min
I believe these numbers are from your local setup. In rackspace vms the
numbers will be much less.
>
> My suggestion : Call cleanup only at the start of each test case , so it
reduce the 40.4/2= 20.2 min in total regression test(both regression ).
IMO, you would call cleanup at the end because post .t file you may want to
bring in glusterd instance explicitly in your dev environment which would
then require an explicit cleanup call. But that can not be an excuse for
having cleanup at the end of each test file. It does make sense to have
only one cleanup at beginning.
>
> Note: These analysis done in below configuration
>     model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz
>     RAM                : 8GB
>
> On 06/17/2015 05:18 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/17/2015 04:26 PM, Raghavendra Talur wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> MSV Bhat and I had presented in Gluster Design Summit some ideas about
>>> improving our testing infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Here is the link to the slides: http://redhat.slides.com/rtalur/distaf#
>>>
>>> Here are the same suggestions,
>>>
>>> 1. *A .t file for a bug*
>>> When a community user discovers a bug in Gluster, they contact us over
>>> irc or email and eventually end up filling a bug in bugzilla.
>>> Many times it so happens that we find a bug which we don't know the
>>> fix for OR not a bug in our module and also end up filling a bug in
>>> bugzilla.
>>>
>>> If we could rather write a .t test to reproduce the bug and add it to
>>> say /tests/bug/yet-to-be-fixed/ folder in gluster repo it would be
>>> more helpful. As part of bug-triage we could try doing the same for bugs
>>> filed by community users.
>>>
>>> *What do we get?*
>>>
>>> a. very easy for a new developer to pick up that bug and fix it.
>>> If .t passes then the bug is fixed.
>>>
>>> b. The regression on daily patch sets would skip this folder; but on a
>>> nightly basis we could run a test on this folder to see if any of these
>>> tests got fixed while we were fixing some other tests. Yay!
>>
>> Attaching a reproducer in the form of .t might be difficult, specially
>> for the race conditions. It might pass pre and post fix as well. So it
>> *should not* be a must criteria to have .t file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. *New gerrit/review work flow*
>>>
>>> Our gerrit setup currently has a 2 hour average for regression run.
>>> Due to long queue of commits the round about time is around 4-6 hours.
>>>
>>> Kaushal has proposed on how to reduce round about time more in this
>>> thread http://www.spinics.net/lists/gluster-devel/msg15798.html.
>>>
>>>
>>> 3. *Make sure tests can be done in docker and run in parallel*
>>>
>>> To reduce time for one test run from 2 hours we can look at running
>>> tests in parallel. I did a prototype and got test time down to 40 mins
>>> on a 16 GB RAM and 4 core VM.
>>>
>>> Current blocked at :
>>> Some of the tests fail in docker while they pass in a VM.
>>> Note that it is .t failing, Gluster works fine in docker.
>>> Need some help on this. More on this in a mail I will be sending later
>>> today at gluster-devel.
>>>
>>>
>>> *what do we get?*
>>> Running 4 docker containers on our Laptops itself can reduce time
>>> taken by test runs down to 90 mins. Running them on powerful machines,
>>> it is down to 40 mins as seen in the prototype.
>>
>> How about NetBSD, yesterday Niels point out to me that there is no
>> docker service for NetBSD.
>>>
>>>
>>> 4. *Test definitions for every .t*
>>>
>>> May be the time has come to upgrade our test infra to have tests with
>>> test definitions. Every .t file could have a corresponding .def file
>>> which is
>>>     A JSON/YAML/XML config
>>>     Defines the requirements of test
>>>         Type of volume
>>>         Special knowledge of brick size required?
>>>         Which repo source folders should trigger this test
>>>         Running time
>>>         Test RUN level
>>>
>>> *what do we get?*
>>> a. Run a partial set of tests on a commit based on git log and test
>>> definitions and run complete regression as nightly.
>>> b. Order test run based on run times. This combined with fail on first
>>> test setting we have, we will fail as early as possible.
>>> c. Order tests based on functionality level, which means a mount.t basic
>>> test should run before a complex DHT test that makes use of FUSE mount.
>>> Again, this will help us to fail as early as possible in failure
scenarios.
>>> d. With knowledge of type of volume required and number of bricks
>>> required, we can re-use volumes that are created for subsequent tests.
>>> Even the cleanup() function we have takes time.  DiSTAF already has a
>>> function equivalent to use_existing_else_create_new.
>>>
>>>
>>> 5. *Testing GFAPI*
>>> We don't have a good test framework for gfapi as of today.
>>>
>>> However, with the recent design proposal at
>>>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuRLRbdccx_0V0UDAxqWbz4g983q5inuINHgM1YO040/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> Craig Cabrey from Facebook developing a set of coreutils using
>>> GFAPI as mentioned here
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/gluster-devel/msg15753.html
>>>
>>> I guess we have it well covered :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Reviews and suggestions welcome!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Raghavendra Talur
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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