I would like to help since I have now finished all the downstream works. But I may need to take some time understanding all the background information

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:25 PM Matt Riedemann <mriedemos@gmail.com> wrote:

Given the outstanding results of my recruiting job last week [1] I have
been tasked with recruiting one of our glorious and most talented
contributors to work on the fast-forward-upgrade script changes needed
for the reshape-provider-tree blueprint.

The work item is nicely detailed in the spec [2]. A few things to keep
in mind:

1. There are currently no virt drivers which run the reshape routine.
However, patches are up for review for libvirt [3] and xen [4]. There
are also functional tests which exercise the ResourceTracker code with a
faked out virt driver interface to test reshaping [5].

2. The FFU entry point will mimic the reshape routine that will happen
on nova-compute service startup in the ResourceTracker [6].

3. The FFU script will need to run per-compute service rather than
globally (or per cell) since it actually needs to call the virt driver's
update_provider_tree() interface which might need to inspect the
hardware (like for GPUs).

Given there is already a model to follow from the ResourceTracker this
should not be too hard, the work will likely mostly be writing tests.

What do you get if you volunteer? The usual: fame, fortune, the respect
of your peers, etc.

[1]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-October/136075.html
[2]
https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/stein/approved/reshape-provider-tree.html#offline-upgrade-script
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/599208/
[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/521041/
[5]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/a0eacbf7f/nova/tests/functional/test_servers.py#L1839
[6]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/a0eacbf7f/nova/compute/resource_tracker.py#L917-L940

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Thanks,

Matt

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