[openstack-dev] [nova] Next steps for resource providers work

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 31 21:35:42 UTC 2016


On 8/31/2016 12:30 PM, Chris Dent wrote:
>
>> On 08/29/2016 12:40 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>> I've been out for a week and not very involved in the resource providers
>>> work, but after talking about the various changes up in the air at the
>>> moment a bunch of us thought it would be helpful to lay out next steps
>>> for the work we want to get done this week.
>
> There was another hangout today where we caught up on where we are.
> Some notes were added to the etherpad
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/placement-next
>
> There is code either merged or pending merge that allows the
> resource tracker to ensure that resource providers exist and have
> the correct inventory.
>
> The major concern and blocker at this point is setting and deleting
> allocations, for which the assistance of Jay is required. Some
> details follow with a summary of Jay's todos at the bottom.
>
> There are two patches, starting at
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/363209/
>
> The first is a hack to get the object side handling for
> AllocationList.create_all and delete_all. As noted in the comments
> there we're not sure about the atomicity in create_all and need Jay
> to determine if what's there can be made to work, or as suggested we
> need a mondo SQL thing to get it right. If the latter, we need Jay
> to write it :)
>
> I'm going to carry on with those patches now and try to add some
> generation handling back in to protect against inventory changing
> out from under us while making allocations, but I'm not confident
> of getting it anything more that possible adequate and great would
> be better.
>
> During that I'm also going to try to adjust things so that we can
> update an existing allocation, not just create them, as we've
> determined that's required. set_all, not create_all, basically.
>
> The other missing piece is the client side of setting and deleting
> allocations, from the resource tracker. We'd like Jay to start this
> too or if we're all lucky maybe it is started already?
>
> And finally there's a question we didn't know how to answer: What
> will the process be for healing instances that already exist before
> the placement service is started, and thus have no allocations?
>
> So to summarize Jay's to do list (please and thank you very much):
>
> * Look at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/363209/ and decide if it
>   is good enough to get rolling or needs to be completely altered.
> * If the latter, alter it.
> * Write the allocation client.
> * Consult on healing instance allocations.

I think the healing thing is something we can deal with after feature 
freeze right? I just don't want to become distracted by it.

>
> Meanwhile several people are involved in related clean up patches in
> both nova and devstack to smooth off rough edges while we pushed a
> lot of code.
>
> Thanks to everyone today for pushing so hard. We look pretty close to
> getting the must haves happening.
>
>
>
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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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