On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Roy Golan <rgo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a POC lately on a change to stats collection and retrieval > by VDSM. The moto is to cut all we can from host/vm stats (possibly caps) > and report only core-business stuff to the engine. Engine will retrieve the > rest through a 3rd party provider (nevermind what is it atm) > > Being backward compatible by design, I have to support 2 API versions for > Host.getStats , '4.1' and '4.2'. > Except from supplying less parameters, I want VDSM to do less stuff. It > doesn't need to sample what it doesn't report. In other words I want > '4.1-sampling' and '4.2-sampling' > > # Introducing 'configuration' Verb: > > As engine knows always(Hosted Engine as well) what cluster version this > host belongs to, it can configure VDSM to operate in cluster version mode. > > Host.configure(config={version: 4.2} > > Consider this verb, pre-activating using 'Host.getCaps' to set the context. > It will set the righjt sampling method, and other stuff if needed then API > endpoints will have the right permutation of the api to answer it. > > 4.2 host can operate in 4.1 mode: > Host.configure(config={version: 4.1} > > Issue: moving a 4.2 host from 4.2 cluster to 4.1 is a problem since engine > needs to know this is a new vdsm that has the verb available. One way to > overcome that is to fire the verb for every host regardless of the version > and disregard an error that implies the verb doesn't exist. > Isn't it solved by host re-installation? > # Engine: > Engine will have a handling of the verb per version. > Host/Vms monitoring should be changed - I suggest to move out of the > monitoring code the whole stats collection as it is a different task which > is orthogonal to 'monitoring' and in 4.2 more than before. > > > I know configuration for VDSM has been discussed before and there are > probably tons of ways to do it. When you share your thoughts please > remember that configuration is a by-product of the effort. > How do we persist this level on VDSM? Or we don't, and if VDSM is restarted it is again back to 4.1 mode until Engine tells it otherwise? Y. > Nevertheless it can be potentially beneficial to more functions in vdsm. > > Thanks, > Roy > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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