MAAS deployments on Grace platforms should not be so slow

Bug #2046452 reported by dann frazier
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maas-images
In Progress
High
dann frazier

Bug Description

MAAS deployments on NVIDIA Grace-based platforms currently take a long time. On a Supermicro Grace/Grace board, the deployment time was 46 minutes - and often they will time out. I found that the deployment process is often CPU-bound. And this slowness only seems to be an issue during MAAS deployments. After some investigation, the significant difference I found to be the presence of the cppc-cpufreq kernel module. If I download and manually load that module early in the deployment phase, things speed up noticeably - the last such deployment took just 20 minutes. I suspect the deployment time would be cut down even more if the module were loaded earlier than I'm able to do manually - as that can only happen after networking/ssh keys are ready.

My hypothesis is that the cores on this SOC default to a low-frequency unless this module is available. I can not demonstrate this because the frequency attributes in sysfs are only available when this module is loaded.

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dann frazier (dannf)
summary: - MAAS deployments on Grace platforms are very slow
+ MAAS deployments on Grace platforms should not be so slow
Changed in maas-images:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → dann frazier (dannf)
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