[openstack-dev] [nova] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 19:01:06 UTC 2014


On 09/05/2014 10:06 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 06:29 AM, John Garbutt wrote:
>> Scheduler: I think we need to split out the scheduler with a similar
>> level of urgency. We keep blocking features on the split, because we
>> know we don't have the review bandwidth to deal with them. Right now I
>> am talking about a compute related scheduler in the compute program,
>> that might evolve to worry about other services at a later date.
> 
> -1
> 
> Without first cleaning up the interfaces around resource tracking, claim
> creation and processing, and the communication interfaces between the
> nova-conductor, nova-scheduler, and nova-compute.
> 
> I see no urgency at all in splitting out the scheduler. The cleanup of
> the interfaces around the resource tracker and scheduler has great
> priority, though, IMO.

I'd just reframe things ... I'd like the work you're referring to here
be treated as an obvious key pre-requisite to a split, and this cleanup
is what should be treated with urgency by those with a vested interest
in getting more autonomy around scheduler development.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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