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#openstack-nova - 2018-09-27
13:32:56 mriedem it's all very tightly coupled
13:33:21 mriedem i.e. if force is True, the requested host parameter isn't passed to conductor, but the request spec is set with the requested_destination
13:33:51 mriedem but if force is True, the request spec is untouched and the requested host is passed to conductor
13:33:55 mriedem and conductor has to know what that means
13:34:10 gibi mriedem: I see
13:34:21 mriedem i assume the logic to determine if the instance has allocations against nested RPs should probably live in conductor
13:34:25 mriedem so we don't block the API response
13:34:34 mriedem although having said that....
13:34:52 mriedem before some microversion, live migration is aysync rpc call from api-conductor-scheduler until we pick a host and cast to it
13:35:15 mriedem https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/reference/api-microversion-history.html#id31
13:35:34 mriedem meaning it's pretty easy to timeout the API while picking hosts before 2.34
13:35:56 mriedem cold migrate is the same way - it's all synchronous until we cast to the chosen compute
13:36:01 mriedem :(
13:36:42 mriedem anywho, i'd recommend doing your nested RP calculations in conductor rather than api
13:37:04 gibi mriedem: ack
13:37:21 mriedem maybe you don't need to look at placement? maybe you can just glean if it's got nested rps by looking at the flavor?
13:37:52 mriedem i guess you care about allocations for ports
13:38:16 gibi mriedem: even if flavor has granular groups I don't know if the host the instance is on are already reshaped to nested or not
13:38:26 mriedem right yeah
13:39:17 gibi mriedem: can we simply ignore the force flag for every instance not just for the nested ones? I mean the end user will not know if his instance is nested or not
13:40:22 mriedem it's not really about the owner of the instance (the user), force is for the admin
13:40:44 gibi mriedem: true, I missed that
13:41:01 mriedem if we're really going down a path of blatantly ignoring the force parameter, we should probably consider just deprecating it in the api
13:41:19 mriedem like i said, we kind of already ignore it today for ram/disk/vcpu
13:41:32 mriedem plus some other sanity checks that conductor does
13:41:53 mriedem caching scheduler is the only thing that would still truly force today since it doesn't create allocations
13:41:59 mriedem but we can maybe remove the caching scheduler now
13:42:10 mriedem mgagne: i've been meaning to follow up with you about the caching scheduler removal...
13:43:50 gibi mriedem: does this ignoring behavior needs to be guarded with a new api microversion? I hope not as maintaining the old behavior is not easily possible for nested
13:44:49 mriedem gibi: no i don't think so,
13:44:55 mriedem we're already ignoring force for some filters like i said
13:45:07 mriedem a microversion would be more of a signaling mechanism,
13:45:31 mriedem plus things like nova CLI that do version discovery and pass the latest microversion by default would simply opt into the new microversion where force is never passed
13:46:15 mriedem iow, force is legacy from when we just had claims in the compute and overcomitting was "simpler"
13:46:21 gibi mriedem: so there would be a microversion to remove the force flag from the API but ignoring the force flag would be retroactive in every version
13:46:44 bauzas mriedem: I'm in and out due to some customer issue, but I'll reply to you later on
13:46:54 mriedem well, i don't know if we should blatantly ignore it if we can help it
13:47:21 mriedem but i'm not sure how we determine if we should ignore it or not for nested RPs
13:47:28 gibi mriedem: we cannot easily help it in case of nested, and sooner or later (after NUMA) every instance will be nested
13:47:39 mriedem b/c like you said, the instance might have allocations on nested RPs on the source host but maybe not the forced dest?
13:47:52 mriedem well, every instance with numa allocations
13:47:57 mriedem not all instances are those kinds though
13:48:26 gibi mriedem: if VCPU resources are moved to NUMA RP then the simple instance will become nested
13:53:19 mriedem are we talking about doing that?
13:53:31 mriedem i guess for PCPU/VCPU modeling?
13:53:46 mriedem if so, shiiiiit that reshape is going to be big in a public cloud
13:53:52 gibi mriedem: honestly I don't know what will be the numa model in plaacement
13:55:27 gibi mriedem: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/555081/18/specs/stein/approved/cpu-resources.rst@261
13:55:42 gibi mriedem: in this spec VCPU is under NUMA
14:00:39 mriedem gibi: ok left a comment / question in the upgrade impact section,
14:00:51 mriedem we also said at the ptg that that spec wouldn't be a priority for stein
14:00:58 gibi mriedem: correct
14:01:09 mriedem just getting vgpu reshaping done is going to be a big hurdle
14:01:48 gibi mriedem: yeah so vgpu and bandwidth using instance will be the first nested instances. So during this time it make sense to keep a separate code path for them
14:02:14 gibi mriedem: I try to implement what you described. checking the nestedness in conductor and ignoring the force flag for nested
14:24:36 openstackgerrit Christoph Manns proposed openstack/nova master: Fix stacktraces with redis caching backend https://review.openstack.org/605748
14:24:57 openstackgerrit Artom Lifshitz proposed openstack/nova-specs master: Re-propose numa-aware-live-migration spec https://review.openstack.org/599587
14:34:14 openstackgerrit Mark Goddard proposed openstack/nova master: Don't emit warning when ironic properties are zero https://review.openstack.org/605754
14:36:56 mnaser filtering happens after placement, correct?
14:37:03 mnaser is there no warning message that says "i couldn't find anything?"
14:37:26 mnaser i guess i can just rely on conductor's "Setting instance to ERROR state."
14:37:39 bauzas mriedem: I'm still working on the vgpu reshape patch, and yes, it's a big hurdle :(
14:38:22 bauzas gibi: FWIW, I need to split https://review.openstack.org/#/c/552924/ in two, one targeted for Stein with no NUMA affinity
14:38:26 openstackgerrit Mark Goddard proposed openstack/nova master: Don't emit warning when ironic properties are zero https://review.openstack.org/605754
14:38:48 bauzas mnaser: you're right, filters are called after we found an allocation candidate
14:38:56 gibi bauzas: ack
14:38:57 openstackgerrit Merged openstack/nova master: consumer gen: more tests for delete allocation cases https://review.openstack.org/591811
14:39:21 mnaser thanks bauzas, im relying on this logstash query to monitor those: tags:nova AND message:"Setting instance to ERROR state." AND message:NoValidHost_Remote
14:39:29 bauzas mnaser: but you should at least still have the filtering logs
14:40:02 mnaser yeah the filter logs are there but if 0 computes match at the end, but i'm curious if there's any warning if no allocation candidates that come in the first place
14:40:05 bauzas hah, yeah, but we provide an INFO log saying "heh, 0 hosts found"
14:40:30 mnaser so i guess if its gets 0 allocation candidates, it'll just go through filters and end up with 0 anyways
14:40:32 bauzas I also think we tell in the logs whether we found no candidates after placement
14:40:39 mnaser let me verify
14:40:43 bauzas mnaser: sec, checking the gate
14:40:46 bauzas ok
14:40:58 mriedem i don't think we do,
14:41:20 mriedem we just pass an empty list to ComputeNodeList.get_by_uuids() which returns an empty list and passes that down to the filter scheduler driver which then raises NoValidHost
14:41:54 mriedem oh i guess we log something at debug,
14:41:58 mriedem but that won't be indexed by logstash
14:42:14 mnaser yeah we dont do that, too much data
14:42:20 mriedem https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/scheduler/manager.py#L150
14:42:32 bauzas mnaser: yup, we do http://logs.openstack.org/72/585672/7/check/tempest-full-py3/f1d0b34/controller/logs/screen-n-sch.txt.gz#_Sep_26_19_02_54_285546
14:42:59 mriedem mnaser: do you have a failure log to check?
14:43:03 mriedem placement should be logging some stuff now too
14:43:16 mnaser mriedem: i might if it hasnt rotated out
14:43:24 bauzas mriedem: see, we put an info log on how many hosts we got from placement ^
14:43:31 mriedem as to which "filters" in placement resulted in 0 allocation candidates
14:43:43 mriedem Sep 26 19:02:54.285546 ubuntu-xenial-rax-ord-0002338068 nova-scheduler[18720]: DEBUG nova.filters [None req-8a6074ae-e62f-4ac7-a525-4c411c130c39 tempest-AutoAllocateNetworkTest-2112321998 tempest-AutoAllocateNetworkTest-2112321998] Starting with 1 host(s) {{(pid=20232) get_filtered_objects /opt/stack/nova/nova/filters.py:70}}
14:43:45 bauzas oh shit, that's DEBUG
14:43:47 mnaser yeah
14:43:47 mnaser mriedem: that is a LOG.debug() so a normal deployment wont see it
14:43:50 mriedem right
14:43:51 bauzas my bad
14:43:54 mriedem GAWD!
14:44:13 mnaser i think it's useful to get that warning because a lot of times when placement isnt returning anything
14:44:15 bauzas we info out when we have the filtering results
14:44:16 mnaser i would get really confused
14:44:19 mriedem logging https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/scheduler/manager.py#L150 at INFO might be ok
14:44:26 mnaser yeah but we don't even pass things down to filter

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