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Hello Folks,

When zeromq is use as rpc-backend, "nova-rpc-zmq-receiver" service needs to
be run on every node.

zmq-receiver receives messages on tcp://*:9501 with socket type PULL and
based on topic-name (which is extracted from received data), it forwards
data to respective local services, over IPC protocol.

While, openstack services, listen/bind on "IPC" socket with socket-type
PULL.

I see, zmq-receiver as a bottleneck and overhead as per the current design.
1. if this service crashes: communication lost.
2. overhead of running this extra service on every nodes, which just
forward messages as is.


I'm looking forward to, remove zmq-receiver service and enable direct
communication (nova-* and cinder-*) across and within node.

I believe, this will create, zmq experience more seamless.

the communication will change from IPC to zmq TCP socket type for each
service.

like: rpc.cast from scheduler -to - compute would be direct rpc message
passing. no routing through zmq-receiver.

Now, TCP protocol, all services will bind to unique port (port-range could
be, 9501-9510)

from nova.conf, rpc_zmq_matchmaker =
nova.openstack.common.rpc.matchmaker_ring.MatchMakerRing.

I have put arbitrary ports numbers after the service name.

file:///etc/oslo/matchmaker_ring.json

    {
     "cert:9507": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "cinder-scheduler:9508": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "cinder-volume:9509": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "compute:9501": [
         "controller","computenodex"
     ],
     "conductor:9502": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "consoleauth:9503": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "network:9504": [
         "controller","computenodex"
     ],
     "scheduler:9506": [
         "controller"
     ],
     "zmq_replies:9510": [
         "controller","computenodex"
     ]
 }

Here, the json file would keep track of ports for each services.

Looking forward to seek community feedback on this idea.


Regards,
Yatin
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