Open Stack

I didn't say it was pretty - Given the choice I'd much rather have a threading model that really did concurrency and pre-emption all the right places, and it would be really cool if something managed the threads that were started so that is a second conflicting request was received it did some proper tidy up or blocking rather than just leaving the race condition to work itself out (then we wouldn't have to try and control it by checking vm_state).

However ...   In the current code base where we only have user space based eventlets, with no pre-emption, and some activities that need to be prioritised then forcing pre-emption with a sleep(0) seems a pretty small bit of untidy.   And it works now without a major code refactor.

Always open to other approaches ...

Phil
 

-----Original Message-----
From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Chris Behrens
Sent: 02 March 2012 19:00
To: Joshua Harlow
Cc: openstack; Chris Behrens
Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness

It's not just you


On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote:

> Does anyone else feel that the following seems really "dirty", or is it just me.
> 
> "adding a few sleep(0) calls in various places in the Nova codebase 
> (as was recently added in the _sync_power_states() periodic task) is 
> an easy and simple win with pretty much no ill side-effects. :)"
> 
> Dirty in that it feels like there is something wrong from a design point of view.
> Sprinkling "sleep(0)" seems like its a band-aid on a larger problem imho. 
> But that's just my gut feeling.
> 
> :-(
> 
> On 3/2/12 8:26 AM, "Armando Migliaccio" <Armando.Migliaccio at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> I knew you'd say that :P
> 
> There you go: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/944145
> 
> Cheers,
> Armando
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> > Sent: 02 March 2012 16:22
> > To: Armando Migliaccio
> > Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> > Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness
> >
> > On 03/02/2012 10:52 AM, Armando Migliaccio wrote:
> > > I'd be cautious to say that no ill side-effects were introduced. I 
> > > found a
> > race condition right in the middle of sync_power_states, which I 
> > assume was exposed by "breaking" the task deliberately.
> >
> > Such a party-pooper! ;)
> >
> > Got a link to the bug report for me?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -jay
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp


_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
Post to     : openstack at lists.launchpad.net
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp