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On 1/11/2019 9:44 AM, Chris Dent wrote:
> I've been saying for a few weeks that "progress continues on
> gpu-reshaping for libvirt and xen" but it looks like the work at:
> 
> * 
> <https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/reshape-provider-tree+status:open> 
> 
> 
> is actually stalled. Anyone have some insight on the status of that
> work?

This came up in yesterdays placement/scheduler meeting as well. Sylvain 
was pinged about the libvirt change being stalled waiting for updates 
from him (he might have lost this change since it's owned by me in 
gerrit, but I'm not working on it - I'd suggest starring it to keep tabs 
on it in gerrit). As for the xenapi changes, the original author is no 
longer working on this and the replacement hasn't picked it up, so also 
stalled.

Without a major push on the reshaper stuff (feature freeze is March 7) 
those are likely going to be deferred including an (arguably optional 
for now) hook to do reshapes during fast-forward upgrades (which would 
unfortunately have to be run on every compute host as the mdev 
information is on the host, not the DB).

For the extraction work, I think the main thing we're looking for (and 
Sylvain signed up for in Berlin [1]) is to have a functional test which 
creates a server in a flat provider tree, reshapes the tree to move 
inventory and allocations to a child provider, and then schedules 
another server to the same resource class and make sure that all works 
properly. We have existing functional tests that do the reshape stuff 
with a fake virt driver, just not tests that hook in the scheduler 
aspects I don't think.

[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BER-placement-extract

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Thanks,

Matt