[openstack-dev] [nova] [placement] Modeling SR-IOV with nested resource providers

Chris Dent cdent+os at anticdent.org
Wed Sep 13 19:01:37 UTC 2017


On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Jay Pipes wrote:

> We still need a way to represent a request to placement to find allocation 
> candidates for like resources, though. As you pointed out, I've thought about 
> using multiple requests to placement from the conductor or scheduler. We 
> could also do something like this:
>
> GET 
> /allocation_candidates?resources=VCPU:1,MEMORY_MB:1024&resources1=SRIOV_NET_VF:1&required1=CUSTOM_PHYSNET_A,CUSTOM_SWITCH_1&resources2=SRIOV_NET_VF:1&required2=CUSTOM_PHYSNET_A,CUSTOM_SWITCH_2

To clarify, this translates to:

* give me one compute node with 1 VCPU and 1024 MEMORY_MB that has
* 2 vf
   * both on physnet A
   * one on switch 1
   * one on switch 2


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