Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-18 Thread Belmiro Moreira
Hi, this looks reasonable to me but I would prefer B. In this case the operator can configure the hard limit. I don't think we more granularity or expose it using the API. Belmiro On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:46 PM Dan Smith wrote: > > Some ideas that have been discussed so far include: > > FYI,

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-15 Thread Dan Smith
> I thought we were leaning toward the option where nova itself doesn't > impose a limit, but lets the virt driver decide. > > I would really like NOT to see logic like this in any nova code: > >> if kvm|qemu: >> return 256 >> elif POWER: >> return 4000 >> elif: >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:14:33AM -0500, Eric Fried wrote: > I thought we were leaning toward the option where nova itself doesn't > impose a limit, but lets the virt driver decide. Yeah, I agree with that, if we can't arrive at a sensible limit for Nova, after testing with all drivers that

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-11 Thread Eric Fried
I thought we were leaning toward the option where nova itself doesn't impose a limit, but lets the virt driver decide. I would really like NOT to see logic like this in any nova code: > if kvm|qemu: > return 256 > elif POWER: > return 4000 > elif: > ... On

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-11 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:55:29AM +0200, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:35:45AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: [...] > > > The 26 volumes thing is a libvirt driver restriction. > > > > The

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-11 Thread Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:35:45AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 6/7/2018 12:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: > > > Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of > > > allowed volumes to attach to a

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-08 Thread Gerald McBrearty
Dan Smith wrote on 06/08/2018 08:46:01 AM: > From: Dan Smith > To: melanie witt > Cc: "OpenStack Development Mailing List \(not for usage questions\)" > , openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org > Date: 06/08/2018 08:48 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] incr

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-08 Thread Dan Smith
> Some ideas that have been discussed so far include: FYI, these are already in my order of preference. > A) Selecting a new, higher maximum that still yields reasonable > performance on a single compute host (64 or 128, for example). Pros: > helps prevent the potential for poor performance on a

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-08 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: > On 6/7/2018 12:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: > > Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of > > allowed volumes to attach to a single instance > 26. The limit of 26 is > > because of a historical

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Jay Bryant
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 4:17 PM Matt Riedemann wrote: > On 6/7/2018 1:54 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > > > > If Cinder tracks volume attachments as consumable resources, then this > > would be my preference. > > Cinder does: > > https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v3/#attachments > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 6/7/2018 1:54 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: If Cinder tracks volume attachments as consumable resources, then this would be my preference. Cinder does: https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v3/#attachments However, there is no limit in Cinder on those as far as I know. --

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Chris Friesen
On 06/07/2018 12:07 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: On 6/7/2018 12:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: C) Create a configurable API limit for maximum number of volumes to attach to a single instance that is either a quota or similar to a quota. Pros: lets operators opt-in to a maximum that works in their

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/07/2018 01:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: Hello Stackers, Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of allowed volumes to attach to a single instance > 26. The limit of 26 is because of a historical limitation in libvirt (if I remember correctly) and is no

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Matt Riedemann
+operators (I forgot) On 6/7/2018 1:07 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: On 6/7/2018 12:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of allowed volumes to attach to a single instance > 26. The limit of 26 is because of a historical limitation in

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 6/7/2018 12:56 PM, melanie witt wrote: Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of allowed volumes to attach to a single instance > 26. The limit of 26 is because of a historical limitation in libvirt (if I remember correctly) and is no longer limited at the

[openstack-dev] [nova] increasing the number of allowed volumes attached per instance > 26

2018-06-07 Thread melanie witt
Hello Stackers, Recently, we've received interest about increasing the maximum number of allowed volumes to attach to a single instance > 26. The limit of 26 is because of a historical limitation in libvirt (if I remember correctly) and is no longer limited at the libvirt level in the present