[Blueprint servercloud-q-server-benchmark-and-performance] ARM Server Benchmarking and Performance

[MMorana]

Blueprint changed by MMorana:

Whiteboard set to:
>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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ARM Server Benchmarking and Performance
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-server-benchmark-and-performance