[LU-8950] tests: sanity-hsm: use make_custom_file_for_progress() as little as possible

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.12.0
• Labels: patch
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Quentin Bouget (Inactive)
• Reporter: CEA

Description

The idea is to speed up tests on sanity-hsm.

The function make_custom_file_for_progress() is used to create huge files in tests that take a long time to be either archived or restored (this is useful to send cancel requests during a restore for example). But most of the time, this can be avoided by suspending the copytools or using gdb to stop the copytool's execution at the right moment.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-10344 sanity-hsm test_24a: atime is not less than mtime
• is related to: LU-8905 tests: sanity-hsm test_3[3-6] does not use ps correctly
• is related to: LU-8940 tests: df is not responsive enough

Comments

[Peter Jones]

Landed for 2.12

[Gerrit Updater]

Oleg Drokin ([e-mail]) merged in patch https://review.whamcloud.com/24394/
Subject: LU-8950 tests: do not use make_custom_file_for_progress()
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set:
Commit: 1e3d2aa9cf53af3c0ccc331cd715c68f0f049d36

[Gerrit Updater]

Minh Diep ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/30814
Subject: LU-8950 tests: standardize file creation in sanity-hsm
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: b2_10
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: c9c89075e3097343c1b036148577e6c794962f92

[Gerrit Updater]

Oleg Drokin ([e-mail]) merged in patch https://review.whamcloud.com/24704/
Subject: LU-8950 tests: standardize file creation in sanity-hsm
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set:
Commit: 69c181ab35824167c6e3b7f15a3a077dd8c9896c

[Quentin Bouget (Inactive)]

This patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/24394 (LU-8879 + LU-8950) ran sanity-hsm the fastest over the last 7 days in 2556s:

Name	Total	Min duration	Avg duration	Max duration
sanity-hsm	144	2556	4198	4450

The data comes from Maloo's "reports & stats">"durations" feature

[Gerrit Updater]

Quentin Bouget ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/24704
Subject: LU-8950 tests: standardize file creation in sanity-hsm
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: a86559fa2fb232ce716cdab41cdfc7ab1c29a616

[Gerrit Updater]

Quentin Bouget ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/24394
Subject: LU-8950 tests: speed-up sanity-hsm
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: 37ee084858784558601ae668ce8b13d4c63ae258

[Quentin Bouget (Inactive)]

Can someone tell me if I can use gdb in my tests of if it will fail with "command not found" on the test servers?