[openstack-dev] [neutron][nova][oslo] Common backoff & timeout utils
Joshua Harlow
harlowja at fastmail.com
Thu Apr 21 18:30:43 UTC 2016
Boden Russell wrote:
> On 4/20/16 3:29 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Yes, please, let's try to make that work and contribute upstream if we
>> need minor modifications, before we create something new.
>
> We can leverage the 'retrying' module (already in global requirements).
> It lacks a few things we need, but those can be implemented using its
> existing "hooks" today, or, working with the module owner(s) to push a
> few changes that we need (the later probably provides the "greatest good").
>
> Assuming we'll leverage 'retrying', I was thinking the initial goals
> here are:
> (a) Ensure 'retrying' supports the behaviors we need for our usages in
> neutron + nova (see [1] - [5] on my initial note) today. Implementation
> details TBD.
> (b) Implement a "Backing off RPC client" in oslo, inspired by [1].
> (c) Update nova + neutron to use the "common implementation(s)" rather
> than 1-offs.
>
> This sounds fun and I'm happy to take it on. However, I probably won't
> make much progress until after the summit for obvious reasons. I'll plan
> to lead with code, if a RFE/spec/other is needed please let me know.
>
I'm fine with either RFE/spec/code, whatever makes u happy. I'd rather
have a contributor work in a way that makes them feel happy, then force
a process that makes them feel unhappy, especially IMHO for something
like this.
> Additional comments welcomed.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/280595
>
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