Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-06 Thread Eric Fried
I do intend to respond to all the excellent discussion on this thread, but right now I just want to offer an update on the code: I've split the effort apart into multiple changes starting at [1]. A few of these are ready for review. One opinion was that a specless blueprint would be appropriate.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 11/5/2018 1:17 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: I'm thinking of a case like, resize and instance but rather than confirm/revert it, the user deletes the instance. That would cleanup the allocations from the target node but potentially not from the source node. Well this case is at least not an iss

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 11/5/2018 12:28 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote: Have you dug into any of the operations around these instances to determine what might have gone wrong? For example, was a live migration performed recently on these instances and if so, did it fail? How about evacuations (rebuild from a down host). T

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Mohammed Naser
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:17 PM Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 11/4/2018 4:22 AM, Mohammed Naser wrote: > > Just for information sake, a clean state cloud which had no reported issues > > over maybe a period of 2-3 months already has 4 allocations which are > > incorrect and 12 allocations pointing t

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 11/5/2018 5:52 AM, Chris Dent wrote: * We need to have further discussion and investigation on   allocations getting out of sync. Volunteers? This is something I've already spent a lot of time on with the heal_allocations CLI, and have already started asking mnaser questions about this el

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 11/4/2018 4:22 AM, Mohammed Naser wrote: Just for information sake, a clean state cloud which had no reported issues over maybe a period of 2-3 months already has 4 allocations which are incorrect and 12 allocations pointing to the wrong resource provider, so I think this comes does to committ

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Tetsuro Nakamura
Thus we should only read from placement: > * at compute node startup > * when a write fails > And we should only write to placement: > * at compute node startup > * when the virt driver tells us something has changed I agree with this. We could also prepare an interface for operators/other-proje

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Chris Dent
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Jay Pipes wrote: Now that we have generation markers protecting both providers and consumers, we can rely on those generations to signal to the scheduler report client that it needs to pull fresh information about a provider or consumer. So, there's really no need to automa

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-05 Thread Belmiro Moreira
Thanks Eric for the patch. This will help keeping placement calls under control. Belmiro On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:01 PM Jay Pipes wrote: > On 11/02/2018 03:22 PM, Eric Fried wrote: > > All- > > > > Based on a (long) discussion yesterday [1] I have put up a patch [2] > > whereby you can set [co

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-04 Thread Jay Pipes
On 11/02/2018 03:22 PM, Eric Fried wrote: All- Based on a (long) discussion yesterday [1] I have put up a patch [2] whereby you can set [compute]resource_provider_association_refresh to zero and the resource tracker will never* refresh the report client's provider cache. Philosophically, we're r

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-04 Thread Mohammed Naser
Ugh, hit send accidentally. Please take my comments lightly as I have not been as involved with the developments but just chiming in as an operator with some ideas. On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:32 PM Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 11/2/2018 2:22 PM, Eric Fried wrote: > > Based on a (long) discussion y

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-04 Thread Mohammed Naser
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:32 PM Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 11/2/2018 2:22 PM, Eric Fried wrote: > > Based on a (long) discussion yesterday [1] I have put up a patch [2] > > whereby you can set [compute]resource_provider_association_refresh to > > zero and the resource tracker will never* refresh

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][placement] Placement requests and caching in the resource tracker

2018-11-02 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 11/2/2018 2:22 PM, Eric Fried wrote: Based on a (long) discussion yesterday [1] I have put up a patch [2] whereby you can set [compute]resource_provider_association_refresh to zero and the resource tracker will never* refresh the report client's provider cache. Philosophically, we're removing