[Openstack] [Tooz] Help in understanding DLM

Joshua Harlow harlowja at fastmail.com
Fri Aug 12 19:54:03 UTC 2016


Out of curiosity which backend is the vmware_nsx code defaulting to (or 
recommending?)?

-Josh

Gary Kotton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the vmware_nsx code base we make use of tooz extensively and the
> results have been very good. Just depends on what type of backend you use J
>
> We wrote a wrapper that enables the deployer to decide on what type of
> locking to use. This can be seen at:
> https://github.com/openstack/vmware-nsx/blob/master/vmware_nsx/common/locking.py#L27
>
> Each project can decide on where to use DLM. It depends on each community.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gary
>
> *From: *ESWAR RAO <eswar7028 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, August 12, 2016 at 12:44 PM
> *To: *"openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> *Subject: *[Openstack] [Tooz] Help in understanding DLM
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please let me know if any examples are there with Tooz library for
> distributed locking.
>
> Just wanted to know even though we have database locks to prevent
> concurrent updates and if applications are written well enough to handle
> STALE updates, does DLM is needed for openstack services like Heat or
> nova ??
>
> Thanks
>
> Eswar Rao
>
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