[StarlingX][Nova] Upstream work status

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Fri Mar 29 00:16:49 UTC 2019


On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/26/2019 2:03 PM, Dean Troyer wrote:
> > The upstreaming effort is still in progress with 31 items across 5
> > projects complete (or expected to still make Stein) and 20 items
> > remaining to be completed, all in Nova. In preparing for the May
> > release of StarlingX we have identified from this list of 20 items 3
> > features and 8 bug fixes as critical for the release.
>
> Funny coincidence because I was just triaging this nova bug this morning:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1821755
>
> And referenced the starlingx fix for it in there, but now I've also
> duplicated it against the old bug linked in the spreadsheet. I did leave
> some comments in the bug that are likely limitations in the starlingx
> solution which work for starlingx when you have 1-2 nodes in an edge
> site with 1-2 nova-conductor services, but likely wouldn't be sufficient
> in a large public cloud with nova-conductor services spread across
> multiple hosts (unless some distributed lock manager is being used,
> which I don't think oslo.concurrency supports under the covers does it?).
>
> Skimming the other items in the spreadsheet they mostly look like
> already in-progress items upstream, are planned for discussion at the
> PTG, or are related to server groups (which is a known haven for race
> issues since we don't model affinity in placement yet).
>
> > If you have any questions or concerns please reply here, contact me or
> > anyone on the StarlingX TSC, or find us in IRC at #starlingx.
>
> Thanks for the update and transparency here.

+1

I'm happy to see the StarlingX community personally work together with the
Nova community.

While I don't have an insight on how that's all going, I think we can see that
there are positive results.

> >
> > dt
> >
> > [0] The work items are listed in the 'Stein Backport Items' tab of the
> > following spreadsheet:
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1udAtEpQljV2JZVs-525UhWyx-5ePOaSSkKD1CS27ohU/edit#gid=162080347
> > * The last item marked for Glance and Cinder is out of scope here, it
> > is work in a StarlingX project repo
> >
> > [1]https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-nova
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>


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