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Hi Tim,

I think what you are saying is a reasonable goal in terms of high-level Congress policies not having to depend on the domain-specific solver / policy engines.  As long as there are Congress adapters to transform the user’s policies to something that domain-specific solver understands it will be fine.

With respect to delegation to solver scheduler, I agree that we need a combination of options (1) and (2).
For option (2), in order to leverage the pre-defined constraint classes in Solver Scheduler,  it is more like the Congress adapter notifying the Solver Scheduler to include that constraint as part of the current placement decision.   Also we have to take it to account that it is not just the user-defined Congress policies that define the placement choices,  the already existing infrastructure-specific constraints, in terms of Host capacities, or any other provider specific constraints will have to be included in the placement decision calculation by the solver.   The pre-configured scheduler/placement constraints will always have to be included.  But some additional policies from Congress can introduce additional constraints.

For option (1), new custom constraint class -  Solver Scheduler already has an interface BaseLinearConstraint - https://github.com/stackforge/nova-solver-scheduler/blob/master/nova/scheduler/solvers/linearconstraints/__init__.py
with methods -  get_coefficient_vectors, get_variable_vectors, and get_operations that will be invoked by the main solver class to feed in the variables, and the host metrics, along with some input parameters that used to get additional metadata that can be used to build matrices.  Eventually the main solver class builds the LP program by invoking all the classes.  So for the Congress delegation scenario, it will be along these lines, where the Congress adapter will have to populate these matrices based on the Datalog policy.   So as part of the solver scheduler’s workflow this special CongressConstraint class will have to call the Congress adapter with the variables already known, and get the necessary values.
For reference, an example implementation of this constraint class is here - https://github.com/stackforge/nova-solver-scheduler/blob/master/nova/scheduler/solvers/linearconstraints/max_disk_allocation_constraint.py

Will need some more thoughts, but the approach seems reasonable.

Thanks,
Yathi.



On 3/18/15, 8:34 AM, "Tim Hinrichs" <thinrichs at vmware.com<mailto:thinrichs at vmware.com>> wrote:

I responded in the gdoc.  Here’s a copy.

One of my goals for delegation is to avoid asking people to write policy statements specific to any particular domain-specific solver.  People ought to encode policy however they like, and the system ought to figure out how best to enforce that policy  (delegation being one option).

Assuming that's a reasonable goal, I see two options for delegation to  solverScheduler

(1) SolverScheduler exposes a custom constraint class.  Congress generates the LP program from the Datalog, similar to what is described in this doc, and gives that LP program as custom constraints to the  SolverScheduler.  SolverScheduler is then responsible for enforcing that policy both during provisioning of new servers and for monitoring/migrating servers once provisioning is finished.

(2) The Congress adapter for SolverScheduler understands the semantics of MemoryCapacityConstraint, identifies when the user has asked for that constraint, and replaces that part of the LP program with the MemoryCapacityConstraint.

We probably want a combination of (1) and (2) so that we handle any gaps in the pre-defined constraints that SolverScheduler has, while at the same time leveraging the pre-defined constraints when possible.

Tim


On Mar 17, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Yathiraj Udupi (yudupi) <yudupi at cisco.com<mailto:yudupi at cisco.com>> wrote:

Hi Tim,

I posted this comment on the doc.  I am still pondering over a possibility of have a policy-driven scheduler workflow via the Solver Scheduler placement engine, which is also LP based like you describe in your doc.
I know in your initial meeting, you plan to go over your proposal of building a VM placement engine that subscribes to the Congress DSE,  I probably will understand the Congress workflows better and see how I could incorporate this proposal to talk to the Solver Scheduler to make the placement decisions.

The example you provide in the doc, is a very good scenario, where a VM placement engine should continuously monitor and trigger VM migrations.

I am also interested in the case of a policy-driven scheduling for the initial creation of VMs. This is where say people will call Nova APIs and create a new set of VMs. Here the scheduler workflow should address the constraints as imposed from the user's policies.

Say the simple policy is " Host's free RAM >= 0.25 * Memory_Capacity"
I would like the scheduler to use this policy as defined from Congress, and apply it during the scheduling as part of the Nova boot call.

I am really interested in and need help in coming up with a solution integrating Solver Scheduler, so say if I have an implementation of a "MemoryCapacityConstraint", which takes a hint value "free_memory_limit" (0.25 in this example),
could we have a policy in Datalog

placement_requirement(id) :-
nova:host(id),
solver_scheduler:applicable_constraints(id, ["MemoryCapacityConstraint", ]),
applicable_metadata(id, {"free_memory_limit": 0.25, })

This policy could be set and delegated by Congress to solver scheduler via the "set_policy" API. or the Solver Scheduler can query Congress via a "get_policy" API to get this policy, and incorporate it as part of the solver scheduler workflow ?

Does this sound doable ?

Thanks,
Yathi.



On 3/16/15, 11:05 AM, "Tim Hinrichs" <thinrichs at vmware.com<mailto:thinrichs at vmware.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

The feedback on the POC delegation proposal has been mostly positive.  Several people have asked for a meeting to discuss further.  Given time zone constraints, it will likely be 8a or 9a Pacific.  Let me know in the next 2 days if you want to participate, and we will try to find a day that everyone can attend.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ksDilJYXV-5AXWON8PLMedDKr9NpS8VbT0jIy_MIEtI/edit<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_document_d_1ksDilJYXV-2D5AXWON8PLMedDKr9NpS8VbT0jIy-5FMIEtI_edit&d=AwMFAg&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=B6BWd4kFfgOzAREgThxkmTZKy7dDXE2-eBAmL0PBK7s&m=uiVXAFxgoK-F8a3oNLDykcTSmPGUMW2_kFB_BnUEBFg&s=GWRQesGone_FbZRHXZmIcQd5MB20CHkriADqVNVnxiA&e=>

Thanks!
Tim
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