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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
>On 05/11/2017 05:58 AM, Chao Fan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We plan to develop a policy about auto-converge, which can set cpu
>> throttle value automatically according to the workload
>> (dirty-pages-rate). It uses the API of libvirt to set the
>> cpu-throttle-initial and cpu-throttle-increment.
>> But the spec file of nova shows the dependent API is not accepted
>> by OpenStack:
>> 
>> The initial decrease and increment size can be adjusted during
>> the live migration process via the libvirt API. However these API calls
>> are experimental so nova will not be using them.
>> 
>> So I am wondering if OpenStack is willing to use this API and accept
>> the policy mentioned above.
>
>Just to clarify, as I understand it:
>
>1) You are pointing out that the auto-live-migration spec from Newton[1] says
>that the libvirt APIs to set the initial and increment throttle values are
>experimental and thus won't be using them.

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your reply, and really sorry for delay. Cause I did not
notice this mail without Cc me.

The spec file is cloned from https://github.com/openstack/nova-specs.git. 
It looks same to your link.

>
>2) You are asking whether these APIs are now stable enough to be used in
>nova, since you want to propose some mechanism to allow them to be changed.
>
>Is that accurate?

Yes, your understanding is right.

Thanks,
Chao Fan

>
>Chris
>
>
>[1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/newton/implemented/auto-live-migration-completion.html
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