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On 09/11/2014 05:01 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 09/11/2014 04:51 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>> On 9/10/2014 6:00 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>>> On 09/10/2014 06:46 PM, Joe Cropper wrote:
>>>> Hmm, not sure I follow the concern, Russell.  How is that any different
>>>> from putting a VM into the group when it’s booted as is done today?
>>>>   This simply defers the ‘group insertion time’ to some time after
>>>> initial the VM’s been spawned, so I’m not sure this creates anymore
>>>> race
>>>> conditions than what’s already there [1].
>>>>
>>>> [1] Sure, the to-be-added VM could be in the midst of a migration or
>>>> something, but that would be pretty simple to check make sure its task
>>>> state is None or some such.
>>>
>>> The way this works at boot is already a nasty hack.  It does policy
>>> checking in the scheduler, and then has to re-do some policy checking at
>>> launch time on the compute node.  I'm afraid of making this any worse.
>>> In any case, it's probably better to discuss this in the context of a
>>> more detailed design proposal.
>>>
>>
>> This [1] is the hack you're referring to right?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/compute/manager.py?id=2014.2.b3#n1297
>>
> 
> That's the hack *I* had in the back of my mind.

Yep.

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Russell Bryant