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Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> 于2018年9月29日周六 上午5:51写道：

> On 09/28/2018 04:42 PM, Eric Fried wrote:
> > On 09/28/2018 09:41 AM, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Eric Fried <openstack at fried.cc> wrote:
> >>> It's time somebody said this.
> >>>
> >>> Every time we turn a corner or look under a rug, we find another use
> >>> case for provider traits in placement. But every time we have to have
> >>> the argument about whether that use case satisfies the original
> >>> "intended purpose" of traits.
> >>>
> >>> That's only reason I've ever been able to glean: that it (whatever "it"
> >>> is) wasn't what the architects had in mind when they came up with the
> >>> idea of traits. We're not even talking about anything that would
> require
> >>> changes to the placement API. Just, "Oh, that's not a *capability* -
> >>> shut it down."
> >>>
> >>> Bubble wrap was originally intended as a textured wallpaper and a
> >>> greenhouse insulator. Can we accept the fact that traits have (many,
> >>> many) uses beyond marking capabilities, and quit with the arbitrary
> >>> restrictions?
> >>
> >> How far are we willing to go? Does an arbitrary (key: value) pair
> >> encoded in a trait name like key_`str(value)` (e.g. CURRENT_TEMPERATURE:
> >> 85 encoded as CUSTOM_TEMPERATURE_85) something we would be OK to see in
> >> placement?
> >
> > Great question. Perhaps TEMPERATURE_DANGEROUSLY_HIGH is okay, but
> > TEMPERATURE_<specific_number> is not.
>
> That's correct, because you're encoding >1 piece of information into the
> single string (the fact that it's a temperature *and* the value of that
> temperature are the two pieces of information encoded into the single
> string).
>
> Now that there's multiple pieces of information encoded in the string
> the reader of the trait string needs to know how to decode those bits of
> information, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid doing (because
> we can see from the ComputeCapabilitiesFilter, the extra_specs mess, and
> the giant hairball that is the NUMA and CPU pinning "metadata requests"
> how that turns out).
>

May I understand the one of Jay's complain is about metadata API
undiscoverable? That is extra_spec mess and ComputeCapabilitiesFilter mess?

Another complain is about the information in the string. Agree with that
TEMPERATURE_<specific_number> is terriable.
I prefer the way I used in nvdimm proposal now, I don't want to use Trait
NVDIMM_DEVICE_500GB, NVDIMM_DEVICE_1024GB. I want to put them into the
different resource provider, and use min_size, max_size limit the
allocation. And the user will request with resource class like
RC_NVDIMM_GB=512.


>
> > This thread isn't about setting these parameters; it's about getting
> > us to a point where we can discuss a question just like this one
> > without running up against: >
> > "That's a hard no, because you shouldn't encode key/value pairs in
> traits."
> >
> > "Oh, why's that?"
> >
> > "Because that's not what we intended when we created traits."
> >
> > "But it would work, and the alternatives are way harder."
> >
> > "-1"
> >
> > "But..."
> >
> > "-I
>
> I believe I've articulated a number of times why traits should remain
> unary pieces of information, and not just said "because that's what we
> intended when we created traits".
>
> I'm tough on this because I've seen the garbage code and unmaintainable
> mess that not having structurally sound data modeling concepts and
> information interpretation rules leads to in Nova and I don't want to
> encourage any more of it.
>
> -jay
>
>
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