[openstack-dev] [neutron] Supporting retries in neutronclient

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Wed May 28 03:27:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Mike Spreitzer <mspreitz at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote on 05/27/2014 07:31:16 PM:
>
> > From: Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com>
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> > <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> > Date: 05/27/2014 07:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Supporting retries in
> neutronclient
> >
> >
>
> > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Eugene Nikanorov <
> enikanorov at mirantis.com
> > > wrote:
> > In fact, nova should be careful about changing number of retries for
> > neutron client.
> > It's known that under significant load (people test serial VM
> > creation) neutron client may timeout on POST operation which does
> > port creation; retrying this again leads to multiple fixed IPs
> > assigned to a VM
> >
> > This sounds like a bug in nova, nova should be able to handle
> > intermittent service timeouts without doing the wrong thing.
>
> It's just one of many bugs that are unavoidable consequences of APIs that
> do not support idempotent usage.
>

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