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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:38 AM Sylvain Bauza <sbauza at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hola,
>
> In Stein, I provided a new feature [1] that was checking inventories from multiple children resource providers (RP). Since in Rocky, those inventories were only on the root RP, I had to provide both :
>  #1 : an upgrade support for RPs that were not having a parent RP (that was the case of Stein compute nodes) [2]
>  #2 : a reshape method in the libvirt driver for moving allocations from a root RP to children RPs [3]
>
> Now, we're in the Ussuri timeframe and as I was usually doing, I removed the upgrade support (in #1) since we're 100% sure that all compute nodes are either Train or Ussuri [4]
>
> This is cool, but now the reshape code I wrote for #2 no longer works (which is normal, since the 'non-Stein' support was removed) [5]
>
> Soooooo. Can I also then remove the reshape support ? That would mean that upgrading from Rocky to Train would work, but Rocky to Ussuri wouldn't. I'm personally OK with this, but I guess other people could have concerns with.
>
> Do we have any consensus about how longer we would support a reshape ? I think honestly that a 3-releases time window is enough but I can hear some disagreements about this strawman proposal. If so, please voice.

I think that's more than enough from an operators POV and in terms of
"making the lives of our devs" easier POV.

> -Sylvain
>
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vgpu-stein
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/636591/
> [3] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/599208/
> [4] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/715489/
> [5] https://541e2403478ac154d5eb-056bfb946e355d1a1a86dc411a70c5ec.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/715489/1/check/nova-tox-functional-py36/481510f/testr_results.html
>


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