[Openstack-operators] [publiccloud] Improvement for Horizon performance

Mathieu Gagné mgagne at calavera.ca
Wed Dec 20 22:47:41 UTC 2017


Thank you very much for sharing this information!
I'm sure other operators and users will greatly benefit from it. (I sure will)

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Mathieu


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Fei Long Wang <feilong at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I think I should send this note more early given the holiday season :) We
> (Catalyst Cloud) have done some work recently about the performance of
> Horizon, especially for the instance panel, which more cloud providers can
> be benefited. Here is the list:
>
> 1. Allow to skip API calls to Neutron in instance tables
>
> 2. Add cache for get_microversion() against Nova
>
> 3. Remove the quota check for "Launch Instance" button   NOTE: This one has
> been reverted. The comments from Horizon team is, though it's good, but the
> behavior is not consistent with the other panels. Personally, I don't like
> the excuse, I prefer to do the same thing for all the other panels.
>
> 4. Add white list for Nova extension   NOTE: It's not accepted by Horizon
> team, so we're going to keep it in our private repo.
>
> 5. Make image name on instances panel configurable   NOTE: It's not accepted
> by Horizon team, so we're going to keep it in our private repo.
>
> So far, we haven't got too much performance issue on the other panels.
> Because the performance issue about Horizon is really related to the the API
> calls. There are too much API calls on instance panel and it's related the
> number of instances when listing. Generally, when listing 20 instances per
> page could cost 10s-12s on our cloud before, with above 5 patches, it could
> be reduced to 3s-4s.
>
> Hopefully above information is helpful.
>
>
> --
> Cheers & Best regards,
> Feilong Wang (王飞龙)
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> Email: flwang at catalyst.net.nz
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