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> From: "Kevin Benton" <blak111 at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:17:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?
> 
> 
> 
> So IIUC tooz would be handling the liveness detection for the agents. That
> would be nice to get ride of that logic in Neutron and just register
> callbacks for rescheduling the dead.
> 
> Where does it store that state, does it persist timestamps to the DB like
> Neutron does? If so, how would that scale better? If not, who does a given
> node ask to know if an agent is online or offline when making a scheduling
> decision?
> 
You might find interesting the proposed solution in this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1437199

> However, before (what I assume is) the large code change to implement tooz, I
> would like to quantify that the heartbeats are actually a bottleneck. When I
> was doing some profiling of them on the master branch a few months ago,
> processing a heartbeat took an order of magnitude less time (<50ms) than the
> 'sync routers' task of the l3 agent (~300ms). A few query optimizations
> might buy us a lot more headroom before we have to fall back to large
> refactors.
> Kevin Benton wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> One of the most common is the heartbeat from each agent. However, I
> don't think we can't eliminate them because they are used to determine
> if the agents are still alive for scheduling purposes. Did you have
> something else in mind to determine if an agent is alive?
> 
> Put each agent in a tooz[1] group; have each agent periodically heartbeat[2],
> have whoever needs to schedule read the active members of that group (or use
> [3] to get notified via a callback), profit...
> 
> Pick from your favorite (supporting) driver at:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/ developer/tooz/compatibility. html
> 
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/ developer/tooz/compatibility. html#grouping
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/ tooz/blob/0.13.1/tooz/ coordination.py#L315
> [3] http://docs.openstack.org/ developer/tooz/tutorial/group_
> membership.html#watching- group-changes
> 
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