On 09/06/2013 08:35 AM, Peter Feiner wrote: > Russell & Thierry, > > I think conductor-workers [1] should be an exception to the feature > freeze for H3. The risk is very low since the default value of this > configuration option doesn't change nova's behavior at all. Moreover, > the patch [2] is small and uses common OpenStack code. The reward is > high since it makes eliminating a big bottleneck in typical OpenStack > deployments very simple (e.g., setting [CONDUCTOR] workers=10 in > nova.conf) [3]. > > Thanks! > Peter > > [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/condutor-workers > [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/42342/ > [3] > http://blog.gridcentric.com/bid/318277/Boosting-OpenStack-s-Parallel-Performance I'm good with this one. The patch is *very* small and the functionality is off by default, so the risk is incredibly low. We need to do some reviewing of conductor code to make sure we can't find a reason this might not work with it, but it seems like it provides a whole lot of benefit. Any other thoughts on this one? -- Russell Bryant