On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:24:57PM +0200, Michael Hanselmann wrote: > Hi > > Did you mean “multi-relocate” in the subject? > > Am 30. Mai 2011 15:12 schrieb Iustin Pop <[email protected]>: > > Next, the 'any_group' mode. I know we had some reasons to introduce > > this, however I can't how this an IAllocator is supposed to make its > > If one of you remembers what it could be useful for, please let me > know. So far I haven't found it.
Ack. > > decision correctly. The issue is that we don't know if inter-group moves > > are costly, and we can't thus decide whether to keep in-group for a > > decrease in current group score of 0.2, or to move to another group for > > an increase of 0.1 only (for that target group). The only sane choice I > > see is that we always try the current group and only if that fails, we > > will relocate to another group. In effect this is not 'any_group', but > > 'change_if_needed'. > > Sounds good to me. I don't think the mode needs to be renamed as in > the end it's an iallocator policy decision. Ah, was not talking about the mode name, just how we want to implement it. thanks, iustin
