[openstack-dev] [nova] What do we lose if the reshaper stuff doesn't land in Rocky?

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 21:02:47 UTC 2018


DB work is now pushed for the single transaction reshape() function:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/582383

Note that in working on that, I uncovered a bug in 
AllocationList.delete_all() which needed to first be fixed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1781430

A fix has been pushed here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/582382/

Best,
-jay

On 07/12/2018 10:45 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> Continuing the discussion from the nova meeting today [1], I'm trying to 
> figure out what the risk / benefit / contingency is if we don't get the 
> reshaper stuff done in Rocky.
> 
> In a nutshell, we need reshaper to migrate VGPU inventory for the 
> libvirt and xenapi drivers from the root compute node resource provider 
> to child providers in the compute node provider tree, because then we 
> can support multiple VGPU type inventory on the same compute host. [2]
> 
> Looking at the status of the vgpu-rocky blueprint [3], the libvirt 
> changes are in merge conflict but the xenapi changes are ready to go.
> 
> What I'm wondering is if we don't get reshaper done in Rocky, what does 
> that prevent us from doing in Stein? For example, does it mean we can't 
> support modeling NUMA in placement until the T release? Or does it just 
> mean that we lose the upgrade window from Rocky to Stein such that we 
> expect people to run the reshaper migration so that Stein code can 
> assume the migration has been done and model nested resource providers?
> 
> If the former (no NUMA modeling until T), that's a big deal. If the 
> latter, it makes the Stein code more complicated but it doesn't sound 
> impossible, right? Wouldn't the Stein code just need to add some 
> checking to see if the migration has been done before it can support 
> some new features?
> 
> Obviously if we don't have reshaper done in Rocky then the xenapi driver 
> can't support multiple VGPU types on the same compute host in Rocky - 
> but isn't that kind of the exact same situation if we don't get reshaper 
> done until Stein?
> 
> [1] 
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2018/nova.2018-07-12-14.00.log.html#l-71 
> 
> [2] 
> https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/rocky/approved/vgpu-rocky.html 
> 
> [3] 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/vgpu-rocky+(status:open+OR+status:merged) 
> 
> 



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