[openstack-dev] [nova] [placement] Upgrade concerns with nested Resource Providers

Eric Fried openstack at fried.cc
Thu May 31 13:54:13 UTC 2018


This seems reasonable, but...

On 05/31/2018 04:34 AM, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sbauza at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> After considering the whole approach, discussing with a couple of
>> folks over IRC, here is what I feel the best approach for a seamless
>> upgrade :
>>  - VGPU inventory will be kept on root RP (for the first type) in
>> Queens so that a compute service upgrade won't impact the DB
>>  - during Queens, operators can run a DB online migration script (like
-------------^^^^^^
Did you mean Rocky?

>> the ones we currently have in
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/c2f42b0/nova/cmd/manage.py#L375) that
>> will create a new resource provider for the first type and move the
>> inventory and allocations to it.
>>  - it's the responsibility of the virt driver code to check whether a
>> child RP with its name being the first type name already exists to
>> know whether to update the inventory against the root RP or the child RP.
>>
>> Does it work for folks ?
> 
> +1 works for me
> gibi
> 
>> PS : we already have the plumbing in place in nova-manage and we're
>> still managing full Nova resources. I know we plan to move Placement
>> out of the nova tree, but for the Rocky timeframe, I feel we can
>> consider nova-manage as the best and quickiest approach for the data
>> upgrade.
>>
>> -Sylvain
>>
>>
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