[openstack-dev] [cyborg] [nova] Cyborg quotas

Alex Xu soulxu at gmail.com
Thu May 17 06:34:44 UTC 2018


2018-05-17 9:38 GMT+08:00 Alex Xu <soulxu at gmail.com>:

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> 2018-05-17 1:24 GMT+08:00 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
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>> On 05/16/2018 01:01 PM, Nadathur, Sundar wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>     The Cyborg quota spec [1] proposes to implement a quota (maximum
>>> usage) for accelerators on a per-project basis, to prevent one project
>>> (tenant) from over-using some resources and starving other tenants. There
>>> are separate resource classes for different accelerator types (GPUs, FPGAs,
>>> etc.), and so we can do quotas per RC.
>>>
>>> The current proposal [2] is to track the usage in Cyborg agent/driver. I
>>> am not sure that scheme will work, as I have indicated in the comments on
>>> [1]. Here is another possible way.
>>>
>>>   * The operator configures the oslo.limit in keystone per-project
>>>     per-resource-class (GPU, FPGA, ...).
>>>       o Until this gets into Keystone, Cyborg may define its own quota
>>>         table, as defined in [1].
>>>   * Cyborg implements a table to track per-project usage, as defined in
>>> [1].
>>>
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>> Placement already stores usage information for all allocations of
>> resources. There is already even a /usages API endpoint that you can
>> specify a project and/or user:
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>> https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/placement/#list-usages
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>> I see no reason not to use it.
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>> There is already actually a spec to use placement for quota usage checks
>> in Nova here:
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>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/509042/
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> FYI, I'm working on a spec which append to that spec. It's about counting
> quota for the resource class(GPU, custom RC, etc) other than nova built-in
> resources(cores, ram). It should be able to count the resource classes
> which are used by cyborg. But yes, we probably should answer Matt's
> question first, whether we should let Nova count quota instead of Cyborg.
>

here is the line https://review.openstack.org/#/c/569011/


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>> Probably best to have a look at that and see if it will end up meeting
>> your needs.
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>>   * Cyborg provides a filter for the Nova scheduler, which checks
>>>     whether the project making the request has exceeded its own quota.
>>>
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>> Quota checks happen before Nova's scheduler gets involved, so having a
>> scheduler filter handle quota usage checking is pretty much a non-starter.
>>
>> I'll have a look at the patches you've proposed and comment there.
>>
>> Best,
>> -jay
>>
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