[Blueprint servercloud-q-server-benchmark-and-performance] ARM Server Benchmarking and Performance
Antonio Rosales
antonio at canonical.com
Thu Jun 21 22:55:50 UTC 2012
Blueprint changed by Antonio Rosales:
Whiteboard changed:
- I'm deferring this due to no workitems defined. -robbiew
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From Etherpad:
Workload tests:
- bzr branch lp:server-workload-testing
- Currently done and maintained by Canonical
- Linaro could help getting it to work across the ARM boards available there as well as with LAVA
openssl: openssl-test? gnu-tls?
ARM Workload:
- Linaro is looking at extracting the power consumed when stressing the board support
- It'd be useful to benchmark not only the test results, but the power that was consumed during the test run
Areas to investigate while checking for performance:
- Not that clear at the moment
- Generally looking at the usual test cases/benchmarks for a start
- One way would be to get feedback from the hw vendors to understand what would be the priority
ACTION:
[rsalveti] Make sure we have a session at Linaro Connect to cover power usage at the ARM boards during test case executions
IO/Storage: Ceph, Swift, Gluster?
Areas of focus on feature/functional side:
- KVM
- LXC
- OpenMPI
Calxeda is interested in OpenMPI performance/testing.
From P:
As actual ARM server hardware begins to enter the marketplace, a standardized way to test and benchmark performance must be developed and run on all active platforms we support for ARM server.
http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/
http://openbenchmarking.org/
Upcoming PTS tests: MySQL, TPCC MySQL, various SPEC tests (might not be public), Unixbench, plus others (can also easily add in any others, just ask)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/QA/Server
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-o-arm-image-qa
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-o-arm-image-validation
- membase?
- Ensure that multi-system testing setups are standardized
- weekly meeting to reveiw testing on #ubuntu-meeting (Thursdays 15:00 UTC)
ACTIONS:
- Automate testing [explore PTS documentation about batch-run options]
- Find an IPV6 testing tool
- Add a test for Membase
- Add a test for Hadoop and other workloads
- Explore stress/load testing (memtester, stress, kernel build test, netperf, unix bench)
- Test on real hardware when available
- Compare P test results against O.
- AHCI testing
- Investigate PTS logging sensor data [Run any test(s) with "MONITOR=all" environmental variable to see all sensors... or see included HTML/PDF documentation... or run "phoronix-test-suite system-sensors" to see all supported/unsupported sensors. Try latest PTS release for latest sensor coverage.]
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=User Stories=
- - George wants to setup an openmpi cluster on his new ARM server nodes.
+ - George wants to setup an openmpi cluster on his new ARM server nodes and would like a common set of tools to measure performance of openMPI on his ARM cluster.
+ - Rebekah is setting up her new ARM cluster and would like a set of common tools to measure performance of virtualization technologies such as KVM and LXC.
+ - Jacob has his new ARM server nodes up and running with Ubuntu and would like use a set of common tools to test performance of workloads such as Hadoop in his environment.
=Assumptions=
- -All of the mentioned pieces of software already work on ARM platforms.
+ -All of the mentioned pieces of software already work on ARM platforms.
+ -The work here is to create a common set of scripts for folks to use to tune and analyze performance on their ARM servers. This goal is not to produce performance results.
=Test Plans=
- - Run each script on all available ARM server hardware and some x86 hardware.
+ - Identify appropriate benchmark for each workload
+ - Run each script on all available ARM server hardware and some x86 hardware by first set
+ - Automate running of scripts for each workload.
+ * Script will be complete for this blueprint when it accurately exercises the workloads, provides benchmarking data for performance evaluation, and is able to executed in automated process.
=Release Note=
- - Automated testing of key clustered workloads and core Linux stacks has been performed to ensure a more reliable experience on ARM and x86 hardware.
+ - Common set of performance set of testing scripts available for ARM servers
+ *Once work is complete need to details what the scripts are and where they can be obtained.
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