[openstack-dev] Scheduler meeting and Icehouse Summit

Debojyoti Dutta ddutta at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 03:31:06 UTC 2013


Hi Phil

Good summary ...

I was wondering if we are shooting for too much to discuss by clubbing
 i) Group Scheduling / Smart Placement / Heat and Scheduling  (1),
(2), (3), & (7)
        - How do you schedule something more complex that a single VM ?

I think specifying something more complex than a single VM is a great
theme. But dont know if we can do justice in 1 session. I think maybe
a simple nova scheduling API with groups/bundles of resources  itself
would be a lot for 1 session. In fact in order to specify what you
want in your resources bundle, you would need to think about policies.
So maybe just the simple Nova API and policies might be useful.

Also we might have a session correlating the different models of how
more than 1 VM can be requested - you could start from nova and then
generalize to cross services or you could start from heat workload
models and drill down. There are passionate people on both sides and
maybe that debate needs a session.

I think the smart resource placement is very interesting and might
need at least 1/2 a slot since one can show how it can be done today
in nova and how it can handle cross services scenarios.

See you tomorrow on IRC

debo


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Alex Glikson <GLIKSON at il.ibm.com> wrote:
> IMO, the three themes make sense, but I would suggest waiting until the
> submission deadline and discuss at the following IRC meeting on the 22nd.
> Maybe there will be more relevant proposals to consider.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> P.S. I plan to submit a proposal regarding scheduling policies, and maybe
> one more related to theme #1 below
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> From:        "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com>
> To:        OpenStack Development Mailing List
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> Date:        14/10/2013 06:50 PM
> Subject:        Re: [openstack-dev] Scheduler meeting and Icehouse Summit
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> Hi Folks,
>
> In the weekly scheduler meeting we've been trying to pull together a
> consolidated list of Summit sessions so that we can find logical groupings
> and make a more structured set of sessions for the limited time available at
> the summit.
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IceHouse-Nova-Scheduler-Sessions
>
> With the deadline for sessions being this Thursday 17th, tomorrows IRC
> meeting is the last chance to decide which sessions we want to combine /
> prioritize.    Russell has indicated that a starting assumption of three
> scheduler sessions is reasonable, with any extras depending on what else is
> submitted.
>
> I've matched the list on the Either pad to submitted sessions below, and
> added links to any other proposed sessions that look like they are related.
>
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> 1) Instance Group Model and API
>                        Session Proposal:
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/190
>
> 2) Smart Resource Placement:
>                   Session Proposal:
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/33
>                        Possibly related sessions:                  Resource
> optimization service for nova  (http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/201)
>
> 3) Heat and Scheduling and Software, Oh My!:
>                 Session Proposal:
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/113
>
> 4) Generic Scheduler Metrics and Celiometer:
>                 Session Proposal:
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/218
>                 Possibly related sessions:  Making Ceilometer and Nova play
> nice  http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/73
>
> 5) Image Properties and Host Capabilities
>                 Session Proposal:  NONE
>
> 6) Scheduler Performance:
>                 Session Proposal:  NONE
>                 Possibly related Sessions: Rethinking Scheduler Design
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/34
>
> 7) Scheduling Across Services:
>                 Session Proposal: NONE
>
> 8) Private Clouds:
>                 Session Proposal:
> http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/228
>
> 9) Multiple Scheduler Policies:
>                 Session Proposal: NONE
>
>
> The proposal from last weeks meeting was to use the three slots for:
>                 - Instance Group Model and API   (1)
>                 - Smart Resource Placement (2)
>                 - Performance (6)
>
> However, at the moment there doesn't seem to be a session proposed to cover
> the performance work ?
>
> It also seems to me that the Group Model and Smart Placement are pretty
> closely linked along with (3) (which says it wants to combine 1 & 2 into the
> same topic) , so if we only have three slots available then these look like
> logical candidates for consolidating into a single session.    That would
> free up a session to cover the generic metrics (4) and Ceilometer - where a
> lot of work in Havana stalled because we couldn't get a consensus on the way
> forward.  The third slot would be kept for performance - which based on the
> lively debate in the scheduler meetings I'm assuming will still be submitted
> as a session.    Private Clouds isn't really a scheduler topic, so I suggest
> it takes its chances as a general session.  Hence my revised proposal for
> the three slots is:
>
>  i) Group Scheduling / Smart Placement / Heat and Scheduling  (1), (2), (3),
> & (7)
>                 - How do you schedule something more complex that a single
> VM ?
>
> ii) Generalized scheduling metrics / celiometer integration (4)
>                 - How do we extend the set of resources a scheduler can use
> to make its decisions ?
>                 - How do we make this work with  / compatible with
> Celiometer ?
>
> iii) Scheduler Performance (6)
>
> In that way we will at least give airtime to all of the topics.     If a 4th
> scheduler slot becomes available then we could break up the first session
> into two parts.
>
> Thoughts welcome here or in tomorrows IRC meeting.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
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