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On 7/18/2016 6:36 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 07/14/2016 08:07 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
>> The original concept of quota classes was to allow the default quotas
>> applied to a tenant to be a function of the type of tenant.  That is,
>> say you have a tiered setup, where you have gold-, silver-, and
>> bronze-level customers, with gold having lots of free quota and bronze
>> having a small amount of quota.  Rather than having to set the quotas
>> individually for each tenant you created, the idea is that you set the
>> _class_ of the tenant, and have quotas associated with the classes.
>> This also has the advantage that, if someone levels up (or down) to
>> another class of service, all you do is change the tenant's class, and
>> the new quotas apply immediately.
>>
>> (By the way, the turnstile integration was not part of turnstile itself;
>> there's a turnstile plugin to allow it to integrate with nova that's
>> quota_class-aware, so you could also apply rate limits this way.)
>>
>> Personally, it wouldn't break my heart if quota classes went away; I
>> think this level of functionality, if it seems reasonable to include,
>> should become part of a more unified quota API (which we're still
>> struggling to come up with anyway) so that everyone gets the benefit…or
>> perhaps shares the pain? ;)  Anyway, I'm not aware of anyone using this
>> functionality, though it might be worth asking about on the operators
>> list—for curiosity's sake, if nothing else.  It would be interesting to
>> see if anyone would be interested in the original idea, even if the
>> current implementation doesn't make sense :)
>
> We've already dropped the hook turnstile was using, so I don't see any
> reason not to drop this bit as well. I don't think it will work for
> anyone with the current code.
>
> I agree that this probably makes way more sense in common quota code
> then buried inside of Nova.
>
>     -Sean
>

Following up on this, I missed the boat for Ocata, but got to talking 
with melwitt about this again today and while I had it all in my head 
again I've written a spec for Pike to deprecate the os-quota-class-sets API:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/411035/

This essentially means no more custom quota classes (they aren't 
functional today anyway), and no more controlling global default quota 
limits via the REST API - that has to be done via the configuration 
(after the microversion).

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann