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#openstack-nova - 2018-01-10
14:20:35 sean-k-mooney efried: cdent anyway that when a little off topic but i think one design would be for neutorn to create its resouces under the numa nodes create by nova and add the resouces it creates to an aggreate using the neutron agent uuid as the aggreate uuid.
14:21:00 efried sean-k-mooney Why do you need the aggregate in that picture?
14:21:11 efried sean-k-mooney Are the neutron resources common to multiple hosts?
14:21:41 efried sean-k-mooney If so, they should *not* be created as providers in the tree under the numa nodes.
14:22:00 sean-k-mooney efried: no they are specific to that compute but i want a simple way to look up all the resocurce providers created by the neutron agent on that host
14:22:48 efried sean-k-mooney Ahhh, that makes sense.
14:23:16 efried sean-k-mooney So the aggregate is really just saying "neutron owns these". It's not associating the providers with any shared providers.
14:23:42 efried sean-k-mooney Which is a crucial distinction, because you wouldn't want an allocation candidate request to bleed across compute trees.
14:24:08 efried sean-k-mooney So in this scenario, the providers are associated with an aggregate, but nobody in that aggregate has the MISC_SHARES_VIA_AGGREGATE trait.
14:25:06 sean-k-mooney efried: yes exactly
14:26:10 efried mgoddard But note that report client is the pinch point for everything. You can't directly change the report client's cached ProviderTree from outside the report client. Conversely and more importantly, you can't effect a change to placement by changing that cached ProviderTree. You can only do that by calling report client methods like set_*_on_provider etc.
14:27:13 efried mgoddard Where it gets confusing is that ComputeDriver.update_provider_tree *sounds* like it's doing just that (effecting a change to placement by changing the cached ProviderTree).
14:27:22 efried mgoddard Which is almost but not quite the case.
14:28:26 efried mgoddard RT will ask RC for the provider tree; RC will return a *copy*. RT will then ask ComputeDriver to update_provider_tree. RT will then ask RC to diff and flush any changes back to placement, which will update RC's cached ProviderTree in the process.
14:30:01 efried sean-k-mooney Is there any reason that agg ID has to be the same across all the computes for which that neutron instance is handling the network providers?
14:30:29 efried sean-k-mooney I guess I can see the benefits either way.
14:30:58 sean-k-mooney efried: in this case i was assuming the aggregate would not span multiple computes
14:31:16 openstackgerrit Mark Goddard proposed openstack/nova master: Add support to scheduler client for setting traits https://review.openstack.org/532539
14:31:32 sean-k-mooney i am considering if aggregates can be used to group resouce providres in a singel compute that are releated in some way
14:32:42 sean-k-mooney efried: do you rememebr https://review.openstack.org/#/c/502306/14/specs/queens/approved/bandwidth-resource-provider.rst effectivly im wondering how best to remove the agent resouce providers so that we can also model numa affinity of networking resources
14:32:54 mgoddard efried: Ah, I think I see now. We can only get a 200 back if no other changes have occurred other than those we just PUT, therefore our provider tree must be up to date. Thanks for explaining
14:33:05 openstackgerrit Lee Yarwood proposed openstack/nova master: libvirt: Collocate encryptor and volume driver calls https://review.openstack.org/460243
14:33:08 lyarwood mdbooth / stephenfin ; ^ one final respin with the comment and nits taken care of
14:36:00 efried mgoddard Just so. Given that report client is the pinch point for placement in nova, and there's only one report client, and it's running on one compute node, under only one thread, we shouldn't actually see these conflicts if nova is the only thingy managing all the providers. But as you can see from the conversation above, there are plans to potentially have multiple sources of ownership for a given provider.
14:36:56 sean-k-mooney efried: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/502306/14/specs/queens/approved/bandwidth-resource-provider.rst was assumign numa would either be a trait or we would have multiple parents. i like haveing numa nodes be resouce provider but that means neutron agent cant be if tehre sub resouce have numa affinity.
14:37:23 efried mgoddard BTW, I put a * above: today aggregates aren't included in the generation thing. cdent is working on fixing that. It's unclear whether that's going to get deferred to Rocky. IMO sean-k-mooney just described a non-sharing-RP use case where we need it.
14:38:00 efried sean-k-mooney Multiple parents, eh? How so?
14:38:22 efried sean-k-mooney I *think* the best way to model NUMA affinity is going to be using a numbered group with granular syntax.
14:38:52 mriedem yikun: if you wanted to start looking at something, this part of the spec hasn't been started https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/queens/approved/neutron-new-port-binding-api.html
14:38:57 mriedem yikun: "Prior to the RPC call from live_migration on the source host to pre_live_migration on the dest host, start a wait thread for the vif-plugged event from Neutron, similar to during initial spawn."
14:39:43 sean-k-mooney efried: if resouce are allowed to have 1+ parents tehn one parent is the numa node and the other the neutron agent but that makes the trees a graph which we dont whant in general
14:41:44 ameeda anyone can help me to write functional regression test for this review.openstack.org/#/c/526900/ ?
14:42:34 efried sean-k-mooney Agree. The tree should be a tree (to quote cdent), the neutron agent can control the providers (at least the inventories thereof, if not the RP records themselves), and we can use aggregates to "tag" those providers as being controlled thusly.
14:42:46 efried sean-k-mooney An alternative approach for such tagging would be to use a trait.
14:43:16 sean-k-mooney efried: ya that was the other thing i was going to explore
14:43:31 efried sean-k-mooney Which might engender less confusion wrt sharing providers (which these ain't) as well as remove the requirement for the agg generation thing cdent is working.
14:43:36 sean-k-mooney e.g. CUSTOM_AGENT_<uuid goes here>
14:43:42 cdent efried: you're welcome to quote me efried, but you're taking me out of context. the implication i was trying to make there is that the trees should be big and anything can be a root
14:44:07 efried cdent Sorry, I take it back. Just didn't want to plagiarize :)
14:44:49 efried sean-k-mooney Or just CUSTOM_MANAGED_BY_NEUTRON. Why would you need a UUID in the trait?
14:44:51 cdent my utterances here are cca
14:45:16 efried I'll quote you on that.
14:45:23 efried (but not give you credit)
14:45:30 sean-k-mooney efried: again so i have a singel api call i can make to retrive all resouce provders that are managed by that agent
14:46:12 sean-k-mooney both aggreates via memberof and traits with the uuid give me that within the existing model
14:46:23 efried sean-k-mooney Isn't the scope of one neutron in this scenario the same as the scope of one placement service?
14:47:21 sean-k-mooney one placement service? is someone suggesting there would be more then one placement service?
14:47:42 cdent efried: sean's assertion was neutron agent, not neutron
14:48:01 sean-k-mooney oh yes what cdent said
14:48:03 cdent sean-k-mooney: in the dark corners of the universe there has been talk of nested placement services
14:48:18 efried (cdent that's not what I was talking about)
14:48:32 efried cdent sean-k-mooney In that case, there's one neutron agent per compute host, yah?
14:48:39 sean-k-mooney cdent: beyond one per cell that sound like i need something stronger then the coffee im drinking
14:49:00 cdent sean-k-mooney: yeah, it's the sort of thing where you should keep _me_ in drinks in dublin to not raise again
14:49:33 sean-k-mooney efried: actully you could have several per compute node. e.g. sriov + ovs on the same node though in practice yes
14:50:06 efried sean-k-mooney But not one agent for multiple computes.
14:50:40 efried sean-k-mooney So my point is, you can ask for providers (having CUSTOM_MANAGED_BY_NEUTRON) && (in tree <compute RP UUID>)
14:50:50 sean-k-mooney efried: :( well for agent based neutron no. but this is odl....
14:50:59 sean-k-mooney * there is
14:51:29 efried cdent I thought GET /resource_providers had a queryparam for "having traits". I don't see it at a glance.
14:52:38 cdent i'm not sure that got merged (yet)
14:52:46 cdent I do think code to do it somewhere though
14:52:55 efried cdent Oh, okay, in flight
14:53:26 efried It would be somewhere in that fabulous placement update email summary...
14:54:08 mriedem alex_xu: i'm still +2 on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/330406/ - i think the migration_links thing is correct; it's consistent with other APIs that support paging. you have a good point about the changes-since before 2.59 though, but that could be addressed in a follow up.
14:54:18 mriedem since it assumes people would actually do that
14:54:34 sean-k-mooney efried: worst comes worse neuron can jsut get teh whole tree and walk it to see if the inventries it creates exist or not.
14:54:51 cdent efried: I think it is something that alex_xu was working on but a lot of his trait related stuff got abandoned
14:55:31 efried cdent Yah, I can't find any such thing in open state (assuming it would have 'trait' somewhere in the title/description)
14:56:30 efried mgoddard So at a glance, it looks like what you've done here is modeled after the inventory updating stuff.
14:56:55 mgoddard efried: Correct
14:57:00 cdent efriend I suspect that quite a few query style things, on /resource_providers, got dropped when /allocation_candidates took the focus, especially if the use cases on /resource_providers werent yet fully formed
14:57:42 efried mgoddard I haven't fully synthesized this stance yet, but I *think* I'm going to come to the conclusion that that's unnecessarily complicated (even for inventory) - and even incorrect in that it does retries at this low level rather than at the consumer level.
14:59:31 efried cdent GET /resource_providers?having_all=T1,T2 and/or ?having_any=T3,T4 seems like a fairly natural thing to expect, but of course there needs to be a real use case for it. What sean-k-mooney described could count as such.
14:59:52 sean-k-mooney efried: one of the other issue is that nova uses the nova compute node uuid of the host_id(hostname by default) which is sotre in the name filed of the compute node RP i think so we cant uses in_tree in this case and need to use name
15:00:23 efried I believe in_tree accepts name or UUID, doesn't it?
15:00:37 efried no, never mind.
15:01:03 sean-k-mooney got to run to a meeting but efried did you not have a systax for this discribed also in your generic device management proposal.
15:01:30 sean-k-mooney be back in 30 mins
15:02:00 efried sean-k-mooney Syntax for what? And I doubt it, I don't recall getting to a 'syntax' level of detail in the generic device management discussions.
15:03:04 mriedem alex_xu: makes me wonder if we've added other query strings in higher microversions to apis that allowed additionalProperties before :)
15:04:16 efried mgoddard I think we got away with retries at the report client level for inventory because at the time inventory was the only thing that could affect generation, AND we were guaranteed to be the only thing messing with that provider, AND there were no trees or sharing providers. dansmith cdent and Jay should check me on this, but I think we're going to want to pull those retries outta there (at least for 409s) and subsume t
15:04:17 efried hem in the wholesale retries from the resource tracker level.
15:04:48 cdent that's probably right and aligns with what was said monday
15:05:20 kashyap mriedem: A heads-up: Given your Nova commit 8075797, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg00845.html -- [PATCH 0/2] qemu-img: Let "info" warn and go ahead without -U ['--force-share']
15:05:52 kashyap I (& DanPB too) pointed out that Nova already added support to it
15:06:14 kashyap Where the QEMU folks were asking if Nova / other management tools use it -- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg01816.html
15:09:27 mriedem kashyap: so they are talking about deprecating and removing the locking thing because everyone is just bypassing it to get their code working again?
15:10:15 alex_xu efried: cdent anything I can help on trait?
15:10:18 mriedem i think nova hits qemu-info from a lot of places
15:10:30 kashyap mriedem: The discussion is still in flux. I don't think they're going to _remove_ it.
15:10:37 mriedem so auditing when we can just ignore it and bypass the lock would be difficult
15:10:47 kashyap The aim of the locking change is to not let users shoot themselves in the foot
15:10:55 mriedem yeah i realize
15:10:56 kashyap But that WILl cause some inconvenience, in terms of usage behaviour
15:11:07 kashyap Trying to get a sense of what is the behaviour across versions
15:11:07 cdent alex_xu: I don't think we need to do anything immediately but we were discussing needing to be able to get a list of resource providers that have a particular trait
15:11:08 alex_xu mriedem: so...after that patch merge, we have a window the order version API is broken
15:11:19 mriedem kashyap: so for the shareable disk thing in libvirt 3.10, does that just bypass the lock in qemu 2.10?
15:11:29 kashyap mriedem: Also, I was just adding a TODO item is that, we should investigate using the run-time command 'query-block'

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