[cinder]cinder qos question.

Nguyễn Hữu Khôi nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 11:17:38 UTC 2023


hello.
Thank you for your valuable information, I got this problem.
Can you help me see how nova will be updated? I ask about something which I
can touch or modify at nova manually,

Nguyen Huu Khoi


On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM Gorka Eguileor <geguileo at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 27/06, Nguyễn Hữu Khôi wrote:
> > Hello guys.
> > I am trying to use cinder qos.
> > But i have question.
> > - I added qos after a volume was create and I see that qos did not apply
> to
> > this volume.
> > - i create new volume with assosiate qos then it is ok but when i changed
> > extra specs in qos, volume keep old specs.
> > Is there any way to make qos apply with two above cases.
> > Many thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm surprised you can even do it, I would expect this would be similar
> to changing a volume type when there's already a volume using it, which
> is not allowed.
>
> I assume you are using 'front-end' or 'both' QoS provider, because the
> situation is even worse for 'back-end' QoS providers.
>
> For front-end qos the values will NOT be updated in Nova until a new
> attachment is created, but it must be one that creates new connection
> information.
>
> Changing that would be a new feature requiring changes in Cinder and
> Nova, since Cinder would need to go through all the volumes that use
> volumes types associated with that QoS, check which ones are currently
> attached, update their connection_information in the cinder DB, and then
> report to Nova the new values (this API doesn't exist).
>
> For back-end QoS it would be driver dependent. I assume in most cases a
> retype would be necessary, but in some drivers they may be updating the
> QoS on the backed for all volumes once a new volume with that volume
> type or QoS is created.
>
> Cheers,
> Gorka.
>
>
>
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