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On 01/11/2014 09:57 AM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> 5) https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65989/
> 
> This patch isn't a candidate for merging, but was written to test the
> theory that by updating nova-network to use conductor instead of direct
> database access, nova-network will be able to do work in parallel better
> than it does today, just as we have observed with nova-compute.
> 
> Dan's initial test results from this are **very** promising.  Initial
> testing showed a 20% speedup in runtime and a 33% decrease in CPU
> consumption by nova-network.
> 
> Doing this properly will not be quick, but I'm hopeful that we can
> complete it by the Icehouse release.  We will need to convert
> nova-network to use Nova's object model.  Much of this work is starting
> to catch nova-network up on work that we've been doing in the rest of
> the tree but have passed on doing for nova-network due to nova-network
> being in a freeze.

I have filed a blueprint to track the completion of this work throughout
the rest of Icehouse.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nova-network-objects

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Russell Bryant