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

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 20:13:24 UTC 2014


On 09/05/2014 03:01 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> 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.

Sure, that's a perfectly gentle way of putting it :)

Thanks!
-jay



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