[openstack-dev] [nova][api] Is this a potential issue

Andrew Laski andrew.laski at rackspace.com
Tue Nov 12 20:07:19 UTC 2013


On 11/11/13 at 05:27pm, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>Resend after the HK summit, hope someone can give me hint on it.
>
>Thanks
>--jyh
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:39 PM
>> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova][api] Is this a potential issue
>>
>> Hi, all
>> 	I'm a bit confused of followed code in ./compute/api.py, which will be
>> invoked by api/openstack/compute/servers.py, _action_revert_resize().
>> 	From the code seems there is a small windows between get the
>> migration object and update migration.status. If another API request
>> comes at this small window, it means two utility will try to revert resize at
>> same time. Is this a potential issue?
>> 	Currently implementation already roll back the reservation if
>> something wrong, but not sure if we should update state to "reverting" as
>> a transaction in get_by_instance_and_status()?

The migration shouldn't end up being set to 'reverting' twice because of 
the expected_task_state set and check in 
instance.save(expected_task_state=None).  The quota reservation could 
happen twice, so a rollback in the case of a failure in instance.save 
could be good.

>>
>> --jyh
>>
>>     def revert_resize(self, context, instance):
>>         """Reverts a resize, deleting the 'new' instance in the process."""
>>         elevated = context.elevated()
>>         migration =
>> migration_obj.Migration.get_by_instance_and_status(
>>             elevated, instance.uuid, 'finished')
>> 	>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Here we get the migration object
>>
>>         # reverse quota reservation for increased resource usage
>>         deltas = self._reverse_upsize_quota_delta(context, migration)
>>         reservations = self._reserve_quota_delta(context, deltas)
>>
>>         instance.task_state = task_states.RESIZE_REVERTING
>>         instance.save(expected_task_state=None)
>>
>>         migration.status = 'reverting'			>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Here
>> we update the status.
>>         migration.save()
>>
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