Hi David, >From a time perspective I see what you're saying. However, there's an >important bit of functionality that is getting tested here: the fact that the >soft reboot works regardless of hyper visor. I've always aimed to make Tempest >hyper visor agnostic, and I would be hesitant to skip a valid test case. I >think it's at least worth noting down as something we can revisit later, but I >think there are other areas we can improve performance in first.
Daryl Sent from my iPad On Jun 19, 2012, at 8:01 AM, "David Kranz" <david.kr...@qrclab.com> wrote: > To help with the effort of making the Tempest suite run faster, we should > avoid or skip the use of soft reboot in any tests, at least for now. The > problem is that, according to Vish, soft reboot requires guest support. If > the booted image doesn't have it, compute will wait (two minutes by default), > and do a hard reboot. So right now almost all tests that do a soft reboot > will take at least 150 seconds or so and will not actually be testing > anything useful. There should be a soft reboot test that uses an image with > guest support. > > -David > > References: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1013747 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest/+bug/1014647 > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-qa-team > Post to : openstack-qa-team@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-qa-team > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-qa-team Post to : openstack-qa-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-qa-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
