[openstack-dev] A simple way to improve nova scheduler

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Mon Jul 22 14:55:41 UTC 2013


On 07/22/2013 10:43 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> To get information about "all" compute nodes we should wait one periodic
> task (60 seconds by default).
> So starting will take a while.
> 
> But I don't think that this is a big problem:
> 1) if we are already able to wait each time for heavy and long (> few
> seconds) db querie
> 2) if we have more then one scheduler, we are always able to turn and
> change one by one.
> (I don't think that having for 5 minutes old and new schedulers will
> break anything).
> 
> Also as a first step that could be done to speed up scheduler:
> We could just remove db.compute_node_get_all() and send RPC calls
> directly to schedulers. 
> I think that patch-set that change this thing will be pretty small
> (~100-150 lines of code) and doesn't requirers big changes in current
> scheduler implementation. 

In any case, I think it's too late in the Havana cycle to be introducing
a new effort like this.  It will have to wait for Icehouse.  We should
plan to have a design summit session on it, as well.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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