[openstack-dev] [all] DevStack switching from MySQL-python to PyMySQL

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Mon Oct 12 16:16:17 UTC 2015


On 10/12/2015 12:03 PM, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
> On 15 June 2015 at 12:30, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     As a heads up for where we stand. The switch was flipped, but a lot of
>     neutron jobs (rally & tempest) went into a pretty high failure rate
>     after it was (all the other high volume jobs seemed fine).
> 
>     We reverted the change here to unwedge things -
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/191010/
> 
>     After a long conversation with Henry and Armando we came up with a new
>     plan, because we want the driver switch, and we want to figure out why
>     it causes a high Neutron failure rate, but we don't want to block
>     everything.
> 
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/191121/ - make the default Neutron jobs
>     set some safe defaults (which are different than non Neutron job
>     defaults), but add a flag to make it possible to expose these issues.
> 
>     Then add new non-voting check jobs to Neutron queue to expose these
>     issues - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/191141/. Hopefully allowing
>     interested parties to get to the bottom of these issues around the db
>     layer. It's in the check queue instead of the experimental queue to get
>     enough volume to figure out the pattern for the failures, because they
>     aren't 100%, and they seem to move around a bit.
> 
>     Once https://review.openstack.org/#/c/191121/ is landed we'll revert
>     revert - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/191113/ and get everything
>     else back onto pymysql.
> 
> 
> Did this ever progress through to completion?

Yes, the last patch was landed on June 16th. We've been running on
pymysql for most of the liberty development cycle.

	-Sean

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