On 10/24/2018 6:55 PM, Sam Morrison wrote: > I’ve been thinking of some hybrid cellsv1/v2 thing where we’d still have the top level api cell DB but the API would only ever read from it. Nova-api would only write to the compute cell DBs. > Then keep the nova-cells processes just doing instance_update_at_top to keep the nova-cell-api db up to date. There was also the "read from searchlight" idea [1] but that died in Boston. [1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/pike/approved/list-instances-using-searchlight.html -- Thanks, Matt