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#openstack-nova - 2018-01-04
22:03:48 tonyb mriedem, kashyap: I'm really happy to help revive that work QA, Neuton and infra all want somethign like that I just can't really be the driver
22:05:54 jaypipes efried: still around?
22:06:59 jaypipes efried: so... this will fail a functional test: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/531243/ and I'm not entirely sure why. perhaps if you're around later you could pull that patch and have a looksie? it looks like the instance creation ain't actually working.
22:07:12 mriedem mdbooth: so, long-term we should probably store the multiattach value on the bdm record...
22:07:15 mriedem the more i think about it
22:07:19 mriedem just like a tag
22:07:20 jaypipes efried: in any case, meh, will hit it later and tomorrow but if you have any time, could use your eyeballs.
22:07:46 jaypipes efried: it will fail the assertion here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/531243/1/nova/tests/functional/db/test_instance_group.py on line 351
22:07:56 mriedem mdbooth: and that always tells us, the volume representing this bdm was attached and supported multiattach at that time, so treat it like that until it's detached and the bdm is deleted
22:22:08 efried jaypipes Sorry, I'm back now. Catching up...
22:23:46 efried jaypipes wtf is an instance group?
22:25:07 efried jaypipes And are these host aggregates (as opposed to placement aggregates)?
22:26:24 hemna_ mriedem, hey man, I added an update to bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1452641
22:26:25 openstack Launchpad bug 1452641 in OpenStack Compute (nova) "Static Ceph mon IP addresses in connection_info can prevent VM startup" [Medium,Confirmed]
22:26:39 hemna_ mriedem, thought you might want to take a look and see what you thought.
22:30:34 mriedem yikes, super rbd specific code in there
22:31:37 mriedem hemna_: at the ptg in denver we said we'd just always refresh the connection_info when we needed it http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-September/122170.html
22:32:04 hemna_ yah, that was just a customer's hacked patch to get it to work
22:32:22 lyarwood that's imagebackend rbd btw
22:32:29 lyarwood not connection_info volume rbd
22:32:30 mriedem sure. the forced refresh_connection_info=True thing would arguably be much simpler, if it actually works
22:32:53 hemna_ my customer tried to live migrate and it didn't get the updated info, hence his hack
22:33:18 lyarwood hemna_: vms/3b97914e-3f9b-410a-b3d9-6c1a83244136_disk isn't a volume however right?
22:33:47 jaypipes efried: and instance group is an abomination otherwise called a server group. never mind, though... I'm gonna sleep on it and tackle manana
22:33:58 mriedem hemnahttps://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/manager.py#L5957
22:34:06 hemna_ I'm not sure, this is a dump direct from the customer's env.
22:34:09 mriedem hemna_: there is a refresh_conn_info kwarg to _get_instance_block_device_info
22:34:11 efried jaypipes Okay. I'll play with it a bit if I get some time here.
22:34:40 mriedem so the idea from the ptg was just always pass refresh_conn_info=True there when we were going to do something like this
22:34:47 hemna_ mriedem, is that an option at nova cmdln time ?
22:34:52 mriedem no
22:35:04 mriedem it was a way to do this w/o any api changes
22:35:17 lyarwood mriedem: the issue isn't with the rbd volume, but the imagebackend rbd images
22:35:34 mriedem i don't know what that means
22:35:51 mriedem i thought the issue was stale rbd information in the connection_info, which nova gets from cinder
22:35:53 lyarwood mriedem: volumes/volume-6d04520d-0029-499c-af81-516a7ba37a54 is the volume
22:35:56 mriedem and uses to populate the disk config
22:36:22 lyarwood mriedem: not for ephemerial rbd images, it's all hard coded from the local nova.conf iirc
22:36:37 mriedem lyarwood: yeah i'm not talking about ephemeral,
22:36:38 mriedem just volumes
22:37:13 mriedem this https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/volume/net.py#L56
22:37:22 lyarwood mriedem: yeah that appears to be updated in the LM flow
22:37:32 lyarwood mriedem: <source protocol='rbd' name='volumes/volume-6d04520d-0029-499c-af81-516a7ba37a54'> <-- this one is changed, new ips
22:37:44 mriedem right, because the live migration flow calls _get_volume_config
22:37:50 mriedem using the bdm.connection_info
22:37:53 mriedem which is stale
22:38:00 hemna_ yup
22:38:01 lyarwood yup
22:38:06 mriedem what we said in denver,
22:38:18 mriedem was when we start live migration, and get the bdms, we call cinder to refresh the connection info
22:38:37 mriedem by pass refresh_conn_info=True to https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/manager.py#L1683
22:38:52 mriedem that will make a new os-initialize_connection call to cinder and return the latest connection_info
22:39:07 mriedem then we save that on the bdm.connection_info
22:39:18 mriedem for reasons, 'ive just never written that patch,
22:39:26 mriedem but i also have concerns about the new attach flow making that no longer work
22:39:33 hemna_ :(
22:39:46 mriedem with the new flow, nova calls cinder to get the attachment record which has the connection_info stored in the cinder db,
22:39:58 mriedem so i don't think it actually creates a new connection (export?) so we wouldn't refresh
22:40:05 hemna_ which could be stale...
22:40:12 mriedem this https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/block_device.py#L557
22:40:20 hemna_ in this case we just moved the stale info from nova to cinder, and cinder is stale?
22:40:39 mriedem hemna_: right, if cinder doesn't update that, and just returns whta's in the db, it would be stale - and we'd have the same problem as using the stale nova db info
22:40:43 mriedem yes
22:40:45 mriedem exactly
22:40:51 hemna_ bleh
22:42:22 mriedem yeah idk, nova could still call os-initialize_connection if we wanted to,
22:42:31 mriedem i don't know if that would update the attachment record in cinder or not
22:43:09 hemna_ so I thought the purpose of storing the conn info in cinder's db is for force delete time when nova doesn't know anything
22:43:12 mriedem otherwise we'd likely need like a refresh=True query parameter to GET /attachments/{id}
22:43:37 mriedem hemna_: that's part of it yeah
22:43:38 hemna_ in which case, can't cinder always refresh that if nova asks for it?
22:43:45 hemna_ I dunno
22:43:55 mriedem but how does cinder know that we're asking for a refresh?
22:43:58 mriedem or just a simple read-only get
22:44:13 mriedem this is where we got talking about API changes to force a refresh
22:44:13 hemna_ true
22:44:52 hemna_ I guess this could affect other cinder backends too
22:44:58 hemna_ not just ceph
22:46:05 hemna_ multipath IPs can change in between attaching the same volume, if the cinder backend gets changed
22:46:50 hemna_ ok so for now, I'll just tell my customer to bounce their VMs. :(
22:46:55 mriedem like a retype?
22:47:14 hemna_ well, more like a storage array loses one of it's interfaces
22:47:16 hemna_ and the IP changes
22:47:16 mriedem or you mean the backend backend
22:47:19 mriedem ok
22:47:20 hemna_ or new interfaces are added
22:47:39 hemna_ it's kinda the same thing as a new ceph monitor IP
22:48:11 lyarwood hemna_: FWIW restarting the instance is the only way to update the mon IPs for the ephemerial rbd images.
22:48:21 openstackgerrit Takashi NATSUME proposed openstack/nova master: [placement] Add sending global request ID in put (1) https://review.openstack.org/531258
22:48:29 lyarwood ephemeral*
22:48:41 hemna_ lyarwood, yah. they were trying to avoid that, as there could be tons of VMs to bounce
22:49:03 mriedem hmm, actually it looks like for live migration we do refresh the connection_info https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/manager.py#L5882
22:49:10 mriedem in pre-live migration on the dest host
22:49:58 lyarwood right, the issue hemna_ reported in the bug isn't with rbd volumes :)
22:50:08 mriedem oh
22:50:30 mriedem now i get it
22:51:22 mriedem well, i'm reminded once again that i'd like to just give up and buy a farm in austria and just live out my days there
22:51:37 mriedem because this whole software business isn't worth it
22:51:41 hemna_ lolz
22:52:01 hemna_ you aren't the only one.....I've been in a youtube black whole, watching dudes build log cabins...

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