[lustre-devel] Lustre Arm64 Development and Release

[Xinliang Liu]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 20:46, Peter Jones <pjones at whamcloud.com> wrote:

> Xinliang
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> There are presently no specific plans/timeline around providing an aarch64
> release. This would certainly be something that we could look into if there
> remains consistent interest/engagement on this. Most of the issues on that
> short list of tickets have been around for some years  already. I suggest
> that we revisit this topic when the list is down to 1-2 remaining issues.
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Hi Peter, got it. We will continue fixing the arm bug list. Hope we will
make good progress soon.

Xinliang



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> Peter
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> *From: *Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org>
> *Date: *Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 8:49 PM
> *To: *Peter Jones <pjones at whamcloud.com>
> *Cc: *Kevin Zhao <kevin.zhao at linaro.org>, "lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org"
> <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [lustre-devel] Lustre Arm64 Development and Release
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> Hi Peter and Lustre team,
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 20:47, Peter Jones <pjones at whamcloud.com> wrote:
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> Kevin
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> This would be a good starting point -
> https://jira.whamcloud.com/issues/?filter=15555
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> Recently, we've set up all-in-one and multi-node CentOS8 aarch64 Lustre
> test environments which include both server and client.
> And we've done some basic file read/write manual tests and verified the
> first bug #LU-10073 of the filter bug list, it's very exciting that no
> issues were found on aarch64 CentOS8.
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> We will continue to verify other bugs on the filter list. But we currently
> are very interested in the goal of arm64 release. So that users can
> directly download aarch64 release from Lustre web site without building by
> themself. And we eager to know more details about the aarch64 release:
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> 1) Any schedule timeline or plan for aarch64 release?
> 2) If there is no now, how to make it happen?
> 3) What are things we need to offer aarch64 releases? Or what resources
> are missing?
> We are looking forward to your reply. And will continue to contribute more
> to the Lustre community. Thanks.
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> Xinliang
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> Peter
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> *From: *Kevin Zhao <kevin.zhao at linaro.org>
> *Date: *Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 5:44 AM
> *To: *Peter Jones <pjones at whamcloud.com>
> *Cc: *"lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org" <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>,
> Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [lustre-devel] Lustre Arm64 Development and Release
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> Hi Peter,
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> That's great! We can help to follow and fix test failures. Could you point
> us some test failure links or logs? So that we can kick off our work and
> reproduce the failure in our local lab.
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> Thanks!
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 20:41, Peter Jones <pjones at whamcloud.com> wrote:
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> Hi Kevin
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> Various people have asked this question over the last couple of years. We
> have machines that could be used for CI (Arm clients are being routinely
> tested) but the challenge has been to have someone follow through and work
> through test failures and take responsibility for vetting the tests in an
> ongoing basis.
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> Peter
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> *From: *lustre-devel <lustre-devel-bounces at lists.lustre.org> on behalf of
> Kevin Zhao via lustre-devel <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> *Reply-To: *Kevin Zhao <kevin.zhao at linaro.org>
> *Date: *Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 5:29 AM
> *To: *"lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org" <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> *Cc: *Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org>
> *Subject: *[lustre-devel] Lustre Arm64 Development and Release
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> Hi Lustre,
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> Greetings!
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> I'm Kevin Zhao, and cc'ed Xinliang Liu, we are from Linaro. We are working
> on Arm64 storage enablement and Lustre is definitely on top of our list.
> We've received some requests from our members about Lustre support on
> Arm64.
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> So I'm writing to ask the current status of Lustre on Arm64. I noticed
> that there are some pages recording Lustre build method on Arm64 as Link
> <https://wiki.whamcloud.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154144662> and
> some Jira cards <https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-11200>. But I don't
> see official or experimental release on Arm64. So my question is:
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> 1. if there some gap or effort needs to be done in order to offer arm64
> release? We are very interested and can help to work on that.
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> 2. If there CI resources needs in order to achieve this? At Linaro we also
> have some machine resources to serve as the CI machines.
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> Thanks a lot for your reply in advance and look forward to work with you
> in the community!
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> *Best Regards*
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> *Kevin Zhao*
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> Tech Lead, LDCG Cloud Infrastructure
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> Linaro Vertical Technologies
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> kevin.zhao at linaro.org <elsie.wahlig at linaro.org> | Mobile/Direct/Wechat:
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> *Best Regards*
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> *Kevin Zhao*
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> Tech Lead, LDCG Cloud Infrastructure
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> Linaro Vertical Technologies
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> IRC(freenode): kevinz
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