Re: Proposal for a regular upstream performance testing

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:05:49AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> Dne 30. 11. 20 v 14:25 Stefan Hajnoczi napsal(a):
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:10:14AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> > What is the minimal environment needed for bare metal hosts?
> > 
> 
> Not sure what you mean by that. For provisioning I have a beaker plugin, 
> other plugins can be added if needed. Even without beaker one can also 
> provide an installed machine and skip the provisioning step. Runperf would 
> then only apply the profiles (including fetching the VM images from public 
> sources) and run the tests on them. Note that for certain profiles might need 
> to reboot the machine and in such case the tested machine can not be the one 
> running run-perf, other profiles can use the current machine but it's still 
> not a very good idea as the additional overhead might spoil the results.
> 
> Note that for a very simple issue which do not require a special setup I am 
> usually just running a custom VM on my laptop and use a Localhost profile on 
> that VM, which basically results in testing that custom-setup VM's 
> performance. It's dirty but very fast for the first-level check.

I was thinking about reprovisioning the machine to ensure each run
starts from the same clean state. This requires reprovisioning.

Stefan

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