Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Format of 'locations' data in image metadata ?

2015-05-20 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Zhi Yan Liu wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Daniel P. Berrange > wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:01:37AM +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote: >>> On 19/05/15 17:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> >In Nova we are

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Format of 'locations' data in image metadata ?

2015-05-20 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:01:37AM +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote: >> On 19/05/15 17:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> >In Nova we are attempting to model[1] the glance image metadata and >> >properties using the Nova object model (now

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] RPC Asynchronous Communication

2015-05-07 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
I'd really like this idea, async call will definitely improve overall performance for cloud control system. In nova (and other components) there are some slow tasks which handle resource with long time running, which makes new tasks get a huge delay before getting served, especially for the high c

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Proposal to change Glance meeting time.

2015-03-12 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
I'd prefer 1400UTC. zhiyan On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Nikhil Komawar wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Currently, we've alternating time for Glance meetings. Now, with the > Daylight savings being implemented in some parts of the world, we're > thinking of moving the meeting time to just one slot i.

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Deprecating osprofiler option 'enabled' in favour of 'profiler_enabled'

2014-12-02 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
"profiler" prefix is redundant to me still from the perspective of operator/configuration. zhiyan On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Louis Taylor wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 12:16:44PM +0800, Zhi Yan Liu wrote: >> Why not change other services instead of glance? I see one reas

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Deprecating osprofiler option 'enabled' in favour of 'profiler_enabled'

2014-12-01 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Why not change other services instead of glance? I see one reason is "glance is the only one service use this option name", but to me one reason to keep it as-it in glance is that original name makes more sense due to the option already under "profiler" group, adding "profiler" prefix to it is real

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance][Cinder] The sorry state of cinder's driver in Glance

2014-10-22 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Replied in inline. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 10/22/2014 02:30 PM, Zhi Yan Liu wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Back in Havana a, partially-im

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance][Cinder] The sorry state of cinder's driver in Glance

2014-10-22 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Greetings, On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > Greetings, > > Back in Havana a, partially-implemented[0][1], Cinder driver was merged > in Glance to provide an easier and hopefully more consistent interaction > between glance, cinder and nova when it comes to manage volume im

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][oslo] projects still using obsolete oslo modules

2014-10-15 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Thanks Doug for your reminder/message! Field https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1381870 for glance stuff. btw, currently I prepared three patches to fix this defect, any input are welcome: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127487/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127923/ https://review.openst

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] PTL Non-Candidacy

2014-09-24 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi Mark, Many thanks for your great work and leadership! Personally I have to say thank you for your mentorship for me. Let's still keep in touch in Glance/OpenStack. zhiyan On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Mark Washenberger wrote: > Greetings, > > I will not be running for PTL for Glance for t

Re: [openstack-dev] Glance Store Future

2014-08-03 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Two inline replies, throw out my quick thougths. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > cc'ing ML since it's an important discussion, IMO... > > > On 07/31/2014 11:54 AM, Arnaud Legendre wrote: >> >> Hi Jay, >> >> I would be interested if you could share your point of view on this >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Unifying configuration file

2014-06-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Frankly I don't like the idea of using single configuration for all service too, I think it will be cool if we can generate separated configuration template files automatically for each Glance service. So besides https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83327/ , actually I'm working on that idea as well, t

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance][TC] Glance Functional API and Cross-project API Consistency

2014-05-30 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hello Hemanth, Thanks for your summary, and raise it up in ML. All of them are sensible to me, there is only one concern from implementation perspective for me like to get folks notice. If we follow 'POST /images/{image_id}/actions/{action_type}' approach, I think we will hard to write common co

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-23 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
First, after the discussing between I and Vincent, I'm sure what we talked for "zero-copying" in above mail threads is different with "full-copying"/transferring. The transferring/full-copying means image bits duplication, it focuses on using some method to accelerate image bits replication and tra

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-18 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
some questions from me as well) zhiyan > > Huiba Li > > National Key Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed > Processing, College of Computer Science, National University of Defense > Technology, Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China > 410073 > > > At 2014-04-18 12:14

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
ure. There are something on drafting, and some dependencies need to be resolved as well. > > > At 2014-04-18 06:05:23,"Zhi Yan Liu" wrote: >>Replied as inline comments. >> >>On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:33 PM, lihuiba wrote: >>>>IMO we'd bette

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Michael Still wrote: > If you'd like to have a go at implementing this in nova's Juno > release, then you need to create a new-style blueprint in the > nova-specs repository. You can find more details about that process at > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprin

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
. > > > > National Key Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed > Processing, College of Computer Science, National University of Defense > Technology, Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China > 410073 > > > At 2014-04-17 17:11:48,"Zhi Yan Liu" wrote: >&

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
thing like zero-copy + CoR. On one hand we can leverage the capability of on-demand downloading image bits by zero-copy approach, on the other hand we can prevent to reading data from remote image every time by CoR. zhiyan > > > > === >

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-16 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hello Yongquan Fu, My thoughts: 1. Currently Nova has already supported image caching mechanism. It could caches the image on compute host which VM had provisioning from it before, and next provisioning (boot same image) doesn't need to transfer it again only if cache-manger clear it up. 2. P2P t

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Switching from sql_connection to [database] connection ?

2014-03-30 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi We have no plan to update sample template in I release for it, but https://review.openstack.org/#/c/77379/ is on reviewing, IFY. zhiyan Sent from my iPad > On 2014年3月30日, at 13:04, Tom Fifield wrote: > >> On 27/02/14 18:47, Flavio Percoco wrote: >>> On 27/02/14 12:12 +0800, Tom Fifield wr

Re: [openstack-dev] UTF-8 required charset/encoding for openstack database?

2014-03-18 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi Doug, On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ben Nemec wrote: >> >> On 2014-03-10 12:24, Chris Friesen wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using havana and recent we ran into an issue with heat related to >>> character sets. >>> >>> In heat/d

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Nominating Arnaud Legendre for Glance Core

2014-03-13 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
+1. Nice work Arnaud! On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 12/03/14 19:19 -0700, Mark Washenberger wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I'd like to nominate Arnaud Legendre to join Glance Core. Over the past >> cycle >> his reviews have been consistently high quality and I feel con

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: Ephemeral RBD image support

2014-03-11 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Jay thanks your correct analysis and quick fix. zhiyan On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 14:18 -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: >> >> On 3/10/2014 11:20 AM, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Sean Dague wrote: >> >> On 03/07/2014 11

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: Ephemeral RBD image support

2014-03-06 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
+1! according to the low rise and the usefulness for the real cloud deployment. zhiyan On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Woodward wrote: > I'd Like to request A FFE for the remaining patches in the Ephemeral > RBD image support chain > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/59148/ > https://rev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Cinder] Status of multi-attach-volume work

2014-03-05 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi, We decided multi-attach feature must be implemented as an extension to core functionality in Cinder, but currently we have not a clear extension support in Cinder, IMO it's the biggest blocker now. And the other issues have been listed at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/blueprints/multi

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance][nova]improvement-of-accessing-to-glance

2014-02-03 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
I have a related BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/image-location-selection-strategy IMO, as I mentioned in its description, it can be applied in glance and consumer (glance's client) both sides: in glance internal, this can be used for "image-download" handling and "direct_url_ se

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance]A question abount the x-image-meta-property parameter.

2014-01-26 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
905-0513 > Email: flw...@cn.ibm.com > China Systems & Technology Laboratory in Beijing > ----------------- > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Zhi Yan Liu ---01/27/2014 01:02:40 > AM---One quick question, do you think there is a potential backwar]Zhi > Yan Liu ---01/27/2014 01:02:40 AM---On

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Is the 'killed' state ever set in v2?

2014-01-26 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
FSM +1 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/image-status-global-state-machine btw, I remember I had posted this information in your change as a review comment, which is a simple state validation mechanism in image domain object and already been merged. thanks, zhiyan On Mon, Jan 27, 2

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance]A question abount the x-image-meta-property parameter.

2014-01-26 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
One quick question, do you think there is a potential backward-capability breaking issue for end user or ISV if we remove existing standardizing/normalizing logic? I'd like to know the gains/advantages on this "fix". thanks, zhiyan Sent from my iPad > On 2014年1月26日, at 23:49, Fei Long Wang w

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance][Oslo] Pulling glance.store out of glance. Where should it live?

2013-12-23 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 23/12/13 09:00 -0500, Jay Pipes wrote: >> >> On 12/23/2013 08:48 AM, Mark Washenberger wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jay Pipes >> > wrote: >>> >>>On 12/23/2013 05:42 AM, Thierr

Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] weekly meeting

2013-12-16 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hello John, 04:00 or 05:00 UTC works for me too. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:05 PM, John Griffith wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:57 PM, 赵钦 wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> I think the current meeting schedule, UTC 16:00, basically works for China >> TZ (12AM), although it is not perfect. If we need

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] How to handle "simple" janitorial tasks?

2013-11-28 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256207 On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Zhi Yan Liu wrote: > Hi Koo, > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, David koo wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> A quick question about simple "janitorial" tasks ... &

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] How to handle "simple" janitorial tasks?

2013-11-28 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi Koo, On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, David koo wrote: > Hi All, > > A quick question about simple "janitorial" tasks ... > > I noticed that glance.api.v2.image_data.ImageDataController.upload has two > identical "except" clauses (circa line 98): > except exception.StorageFull

Re: [openstack-dev] excessively difficult to support both iso8601 0.1.4 and 0.1.8 as deps

2013-11-27 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
. >>> >>> Is there a way that I can grep all commits in Gerrit, to see if there >>> was such patches committed recently? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Thomas Goirand (zigo) >>> >>> On 10/24/2013 09:37 PM, Morgan Fainberg wrot

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Summit Session Summaries

2013-11-16 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Awesome Mark! It's really useful to help us start next works to organize, prioritize and realize icehouse BPs, thanks. Seems here is a good place to continue our discussion around my proposal so I have added some inline replies to "Enhancing Image Locations" section, you know 50 mins is a little t

[openstack-dev] [Glance] multi-hypervisor support

2013-11-13 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hello folks, I proposed a session on this summit [1], one item of it is to enhance Glance multi-location feature to support multi-hypervisor deployment environment, for example in this scenario KVM images could potentially be stored on GlusterFS supported for KVM compute nodes whereas ESX images c

Re: [openstack-dev] excessively difficult to support both iso8601 0.1.4 and 0.1.8 as deps

2013-10-24 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi all, Adopt 0.1.8 as iso8601 minimum version: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/53567/ zhiyan On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Dolph Mathews wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Robert Collins > wrote: >> >> On 24 October 2013 07:34, Mark Washenberger >> wrote: >> > Hi folks! >> > >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] async workers interface design.

2013-10-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
Hi Nikhil, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Nikhil Komawar wrote: > Hi all, > > There seem to be varying ideas about the worker interface design for our > blueprint async-glance-workers. Fei and Zhi already have posted detailed > comments on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/46117/21 (PS 21). Venk

Re: [openstack-dev] Waiting for someone to verify/look into a bug I have opened for Glance Client tool

2013-09-30 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Iccha Sethi wrote: > Maty, > > Can you link the launchpad bug? I have used image-list for glance v2 and it > seemed to work fine for me. Maybe you could provide more details? > Also maybe we should continue this discussion on openstack mailing list than > the de

Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Proposed S3 multi-part upload functionality

2013-09-29 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Masashi Ozawa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We already created the blueprint for this feature below belore, if > Glance can use S3 MultiPart Upload REST API for the large objects in > future release as Amazon recommends it for the large object to be > uploaded, I beli

Re: [openstack-dev] FFE Request: Make RBD Usable for Ephemeral Storage

2013-09-17 Thread Zhi Yan Liu
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Mike Perez wrote: > Folks, > > Currently in Havana development, RBD as ephemeral storage has serious > stability > and performance issues that makes the Ceph cluster a bottleneck for using an > image as a source. > > Nova has to currently communicate with the exter