<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi developers and operators,</div><div>I would like to get any feedback from you about my idea before I'll start work on spec.<br></div><div><br></div>In Nova, we've got max_concurrent_builds option [1] to set 'Maximum number of instance builds to run concurrently' per each compute. There is no equivalent Cinder.<div><br></div><div>Why do we need it for Cinder? IMO, it could help us to address following issues:</div><div><ul><li>Creation of N volumes at the same time increases a lot of resource usage by cinder-volume service. Image caching feature [2] could help us a bit in case when we create volume form image. But we still have to upload N images to the volumes backend at the same time.</li><li>Deletion on N volumes at parallel. Usually, it's not very hard task for Cinder, but if you have to delete 100+ volumes at once, you can fit different issues with DB connections, CPU and memory usages. In case of LVM, it also could use 'dd' command to cleanup volumes.</li><li>It will be some kind of load balancing in HA mode: if cinder-volume process is busy with current operations, it will not catch message from RabbitMQ and other cinder-volume service will do it.</li><li>From users perspective, it seems that better way is to create/delete N volumes a bit slower than fail after X volumes were created/deleted.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/283da2bbb74d0a131a66703516d16698a05817c7/nova/conf/compute.py#L161-L163">https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/283da2bbb74d0a131a66703516d16698a05817c7/nova/conf/compute.py#L161-L163</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/cinder-specs/specs/liberty/image-volume-cache.html">https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/cinder-specs/specs/liberty/image-volume-cache.html</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br>Ivan Kolodyazhny,<br><a href="http://blog.e0ne.info/" target="_blank">http://blog.e0ne.info/</a></div></div></div></div>
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