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#openstack-nova - 2019-04-11
13:58:44 stephenfin dansmith: It is? What is the preference?
13:58:53 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: Yeah, that's pretty much where my head was going
13:59:19 stephenfin as for conflating VCPU with floating, I'm not sure what other term we could use
13:59:51 sean-k-mooney a vCPU can be floating or pinned
13:59:58 dansmith stephenfin: I think I said on the review that I was opposed to us solving the problem of accounting by making people move their guests around between computes that are counting the old way and new way
14:00:18 dansmith stephenfin: so having compute nodes never transition to the new way (without being cleaned off first) is not okay
14:00:20 mriedem melwitt: just fyi that i replied to some of your replies in the quotas from placement change https://review.openstack.org/#/c/638073/2
14:00:22 mriedem https://review.openstack.org/#/c/638073/
14:00:25 mriedem if you're working on updates
14:00:25 sean-k-mooney i dont like using the vCPU resouce class in plamenet to mean just floating as it has a different menanitn the VCPU in the flavor
14:01:05 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: We're eventually going to kill vcpus in the flavor though
14:01:09 sean-k-mooney dansmith: ok so you are asking for an inpalce reshape or other mechanisuym
14:01:27 jaypipes sean-k-mooney: I think I'm pretty clear in the glossary of that spec.
14:01:30 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: im not really a fan of that but we could
14:01:55 sean-k-mooney jaypipes: yes i know what it say in the spec
14:02:01 mriedem mnaser: dansmith already said this but you can archive cell0 by just running it against a nova.conf with [database]/connection pointed at cell0
14:02:07 jaypipes sean-k-mooney: that glossary clearly delineates between guest vCPU threads, shared host CPUs (floating CPUs) and dedicated host CPUs (pinned to a guest vCPU thread)
14:02:20 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: Yeah, we won't need it once we're modelling this stuff in placement. That'd be a future work item though
14:02:39 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: and VCPU and PCPU are far more succinct than VCPU_SHARED and VCPU_DEDICATED, even if we're overloading the term vCPU
14:02:40 dansmith stephenfin: we are? (going to kill vcpu in the flavor) ?
14:03:07 sean-k-mooney dansmith: see i dint think we were
14:03:13 dansmith sean-k-mooney: me either :)
14:03:22 stephenfin dansmith: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/555081/22/specs/train/approved/cpu-resources.rst@727
14:03:23 mriedem killing vcpu in the flavor will be a giant change
14:04:36 dansmith stephenfin: you mean adjusting flavor vcpus down to zero for purely physically-pinned instances
14:04:41 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: ya that was one of the parts i disliked about the current spec but i could live with it if we needed too
14:04:59 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: its a faily major api breakage
14:05:28 sean-k-mooney any system the used to inpsect the flaovr vcpu field woudl now have to inspec the resouces dict
14:05:28 mriedem is this a known gate breakage and i'm just late to the party? http://logs.openstack.org/50/651650/2/check/openstack-tox-cover/ebe055d/job-output.txt.gz#_2019-04-10_21_35_25_171727
14:05:31 dansmith maybe we need a hangout
14:05:31 jaypipes dansmith: yes.
14:05:32 mriedem b'migrate.exceptions.ScriptError: You can only have one Python script per version, but you have: /home/zuul/src/git.openstack.org/openstack/nova/nova/db/sqlalchemy/migrate_repo/versions/393_add_instances_hidden.py and /home/zuul/src/git.openstack.org/openstack/nova/nova/db/sqlalchemy/migrate_repo/versions/393_placeholder.py'
14:05:41 stephenfin dansmith: Initially, yeah, but at some point that entire field could go. I'm trying to find the place we discussed this in the spec previously (this is a big review)
14:05:46 mriedem oh nvm i need to rebase
14:05:54 dansmith stephenfin: I don't agree with you :)
14:06:18 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: i think it would be better to leave teh vcpu filed in the flavor as the total numaber of cpu and set the vcpu resouce class request to 0 instead in that instance
14:06:27 mnaser wait, why would we kill the cpu field
14:06:29 stephenfin dansmith: Then it's a good thing this isn't actually a stated goal of this particular spec
14:06:37 sean-k-mooney it does not break clients and achive the same goal
14:06:53 stephenfin Let's forget about that and move back to the original question of handling upgrades
14:07:20 jaypipes mnaser: because there's two different actual resource classes: dedicated (pinned) CPU and shared CPU.
14:07:31 sean-k-mooney i dont think haveing a paralle implemantins and inplace updates are mutally exclcive
14:07:38 stephenfin I've no idea how we can make resource claims for existing instances that currently don't have anything claimed
14:07:42 jaypipes mnaser: and the ugliness of our NUMA and pinning code has borked how we think of the CPU resources.
14:08:04 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: they do have clims but they are all of resocue class vcpu
14:08:26 stephenfin yeah, so moving those from VCPU to PCPU
14:08:29 jaypipes stephenfin: by looking at the flavor and image extra specs.
14:08:33 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: so we need to modify there exiting claimes inplace as part of the reshape
14:08:40 stephenfin the migration is going to be hell
14:08:44 jaypipes yuuup.
14:08:48 jaypipes always is.
14:08:56 sean-k-mooney will it be any worse then the vgpu reshape
14:08:59 stephenfin we're going to handle the stupid stuff that can happen now, like shared and dedicated instances being on the same host
14:09:01 jaypipes as I've mentioned before, upgrade path is about 95% of the code and effort.
14:09:39 mriedem i thought you couldn't have shared and dedicated on the same host today, or is that a 'recommendation' but not enforced
14:09:47 mriedem and we just hope people use aggregates for sanity?
14:09:49 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: by the way today the vms cant mix pinned and flaoting instace so the only things we have to migrate are the pinned isntance and then just need to change the resouce class
14:09:50 stephenfin mriedem: yeah, the latter
14:09:53 jaypipes mriedem: recommendation. there is no way to enforce it.
14:10:13 stephenfin mriedem: It's all over the docs but who reads those
14:10:40 sean-k-mooney windriver have some downwstream only hacks to make mixed stuff work
14:10:47 sean-k-mooney or i guess i should say starlingx
14:10:52 mriedem i know they have their crazy floating vcpu stuff in starlingx
14:10:54 sean-k-mooney but we shoudl not port that
14:11:09 mriedem i'm not sure there is no way we could've enforced it,
14:11:11 stephenfin sean-k-mooney: You mean you can't have pinned and floating instances on the same host? If so, you know that's not true
14:11:15 sean-k-mooney ya so they were only able to do that because we dont enforce that
14:11:21 mriedem e.g. if cpu_allocation_ratio=1.0, you have to have dedicated cpus
14:11:37 stephenfin Yeah, we don't so we have to handle that
14:11:42 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: no you can but you shouldnt
14:11:51 sean-k-mooney with out the starlinx hacks
14:12:03 stephenfin and because you can, we're going to have to handle that
14:12:06 jaypipes mriedem: cpu_allocation_ratio=1.0 has nothing to do with pinned CPUs.
14:12:16 dansmith well,
14:12:20 dansmith it's all over this spec
14:12:20 jaypipes (which is part of the problem)
14:12:29 stephenfin hence my inclination towards draining hosts and moving them to other, newly configured hosts
14:12:39 stephenfin *moving the instances
14:12:40 mriedem my point was we could have used that as indication a host can only have dedicated cpu guests
14:12:53 mriedem but since we didn't do that, yeah we could have mixed on the same host i guess and have to deal wit it
14:12:55 mriedem *with
14:12:55 sean-k-mooney cpu_allocation_ratio=1.0 jsut disables oversubsciption unfrotunetly
14:12:59 dansmith I'm -2 on making people move instances to update counting numbers in placement
14:13:31 stephenfin mriedem: yeah, cpu_allocation_ratio is ignored for pinned instances
14:13:36 sean-k-mooney anyway im personally not to worried about fixing the allocations.
14:13:36 jaypipes dansmith: especially when those instances are pets and pandas. all of them.
14:13:41 dansmith aye
14:13:42 sean-k-mooney i think we can do that
14:14:03 stephenfin so I'd imagine it's set to 16.0 for most deployments, regardless of the workload
14:14:18 cdent dansmith: I remain confused about why it isn't okay for those instance to remain defined/allocation in the "old way"?
14:14:28 sean-k-mooney stephenfin: it depense on the deployment tool
14:14:32 stephenfin yup
14:14:39 bauzas sorry folks, I had to go AFK
14:14:39 dansmith cdent: I don't think it is
14:14:43 dansmith cdent: we have to reshape
14:14:58 cdent dansmith: I hear you, I'm asking "why?"
14:15:08 bauzas dansmith: my point is that I think we only need to reshape for CONF.vcpu_pin_set
14:15:18 bauzas for the other options, we don't need it
14:15:30 sean-k-mooney vcpu_pin_set is used for host with shared cpus too
14:15:31 bauzas stephenfin: ^

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