Thanks for the great explanation. I had not realized there was a difference
between setting a requestable bool to false and not defining it.


2012/11/6 Reuti <[email protected]>

> Am 06.11.2012 um 10:29 schrieb Julien Nicoulaud:
>
> > Mhh, I don't have a BOOL complex for this, what makes you think that ?
>
> Well, the wording "-l qname" led to this assumption, as this is the short
> for "-l qname=TRUE" (for a BOOL complex). Obviously you meant "-l
> qname=foobar" with an argument behind.
>
>
> > It seems to me that if I configure the "qname" complex to FORCED, every
> single job will have to explicitly request a queue with "-q" or "-l qname",
> but may be I'm misunderstanding it...
>
> Only every single job, which should run in the queue/exechost to which it
> is attached need to request iot. Hence legacy applications need to request
> "-l legacy" or alike, and other jobs not requesting this complex will only
> be scheduled to these queues/exechosts where this complex isn't attached to.
>
> As you want to attach it to a queue, it needs to be defined in the queue
> configuration "complex_values legacy=TRUE".
>
> ==
>
> From the point of view of a job (for hard requests):
>
> 1. -l foobar=TRUE => the complex needs to be defined as TRUE on a
> queue/exechost level
> 2. -l foobar=FALSE => the complex needs to be defined as FALSE on a
> queue/exechost level
> 3. not requested at all: it doesn't care, whether it gets TRUE or FALSE,
> both values are eligible for this job
>
> From point of view of a queue/exechost:
>
> 1. "complex_values foobar=TRUE", (requestable YES) => accepts job
> requesting -l foobar=TRUE or not requesting it at all
> 2. "complex_values foobar=FALSE", (requestable YES) => accepts job
> requesting -l foobar=FALSE or not requesting it at all
> 3. "complex_values foobar=TRUE", (requestable FORCED) => accepts only job
> requesting -l foobar=TRUE
> 4. "complex_values foobar=FALSE", (requestable FORCED) => accepts only job
> requesting -l foobar=FALSE
>
> -- Reuti
>
>
> > 2012/11/5 Reuti <[email protected]>
> > Am 05.11.2012 um 17:22 schrieb Julien Nicoulaud:
> >
> > > I have a few queues that are only here to support a legacy
> application. The application explicitly requests the queues ("-l qname").
> >
> > Looks like you have a BOOL complex to address this queue already, just
> make it "requestable FORCED" instead of "requestable YES".
> >
> > -- Reuti
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I'd like to prevent some "regular" jobs to run in these queues, is it
> possible to limit these queues to jobs explicitly requesting it ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Julien
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