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

Duncan Thomas duncan.thomas at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 13:55:00 UTC 2014


On 11 September 2014 12:36, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> I continue to not understand how N non overlapping teams makes this any
> better. You have to pay the integration cost somewhere. Right now we're
> trying to pay it 1 patch at a time. This model means the integration
> units get much bigger, and with less common ground.
>
> Look at how much active work in crossing core teams we've had to do to
> make any real progress on the neutron replacing nova-network front. And
> how slow that process is. I think you'll see that hugely show up here.

Cinder has also suffered extreme latency trying to make changes to the
nova<->cinder interface, to a sufficient degree that work is under
consideration to move the interface to give cinder more control over
parts of it.



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