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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was reviewing a code change to add generic retries for build failures ( <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9540/2">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9540/2</a> ), and wanted to be sure that it wouldn’t invalidate the capacity accounting used by the scheduler.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>However I've been sitting here for a while working through the Folsom scheduler code trying to understand how the capacity based scheduling now works, and I’m sure I’m missing something obvious but I just can’t work out where the free_ram_mb value in the compute_node table gets updated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I can see the database api method to update the values, compute_node_utilization_update(), it doesn’t look as if anything in the code ever calls that ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From when I last looked at this / various discussions here and at the design summits I thought the approach was that:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The scheduler would make a call (rather than a cast) to the compute manger, which would then do some verification work, update the DB table whilst in the context of that call, and then start a thread to complete the spawn. The need to go all the way to the compute node as a call was to avoid race conditions from multiple schedulers. (the change I’m looking at is part of a blueprint to avoid such a race, so maybe I imagined the change from cast to call ?)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:54.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>On a delete, the capacity_notifer (which had to be configured into the list_notifier) would detect the delete message, and decrement the database values.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>But now I look through the code it looks as if the scheduler is still doing a cast (scheduler/driver), and although I can see the database api call to update the values, compute_node_utilization_update(), it doesn’t look as if anything in the code ever calls that ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The ram_filter scheduler seems to use the free_ram_mb value, and that value seems to come from the host_manager in the scheduler which is read from the Database, but I can't for the life of me work out where these values are updated in the Database.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The capacity_notifier, which used to decrement values on a VM deletion only (according to the comments the increment was done in the scheduler) seems to have now disappeared altogether in the move of the notifier to openstack/common ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>So I’m sure I’m missing some other even more cunning plan on how to keep the values current, but I can’t for the life of me work out what it is – can someone fill me in please ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Phil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>