[openstack-dev] [nova][neutron][cinder] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

Gary Kotton gkotton at vmware.com
Thu Sep 11 13:09:28 UTC 2014



On 9/11/14, 2:55 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:

>Sean Dague wrote:
>> [...]
>> Why don't we start with "let's clean up the virt interface and make it
>> more sane", as I don't think there is any disagreement there. If it's
>> going to take a cycle, it's going to take a cycle anyway (it will
>> probably take 2 cycles, realistically, we always underestimate these
>> things, remember when no-db-compute was going to be 1 cycle?). I don't
>> see the need to actually decide here and now that the split is clearly
>> at least 7 - 12 months away. A lot happens in the intervening time.
>
>Yes, that sounds like the logical next step. We can't split drivers
>without first doing that anyway. I still think "people need smaller
>areas of work", as Vish eloquently put it. I still hope that refactoring
>our test architecture will let us reach the same level of quality with
>only a fraction of the tests being run at the gate, which should address
>most of the harm you see in adding additional repositories. But I agree
>there is little point in discussing splitting virt drivers (or anything
>else, really) until the internal interface below that potential split is
>fully cleaned up and it becomes an option.

How about we start to try and patch gerrit to provide +2 permissions for
people
Who can be assigned Œdriver core¹ status. This is something that is
relevant to Nova and Neutron and I guess Cinder too.

Thanks
Gary

>
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>Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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