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#openstack-nova - 2019-08-14
15:13:38 sean-k-mooney alex_xu: well why dont we just store them with the instance as teh key
15:13:51 alex_xu sean-k-mooney: back to the same host resize problem :)
15:13:51 dansmith alex_xu: are the pmem devices actually named something specific in linux? or are they just /dev/pmem/2 and we maintain the mapping between them and the instance?
15:14:10 artom alex_xu, what's your series? I'm having trouble searching gerrit for patches you own
15:14:11 mriedem (instance, flavor) is redundant because we have instance.flavor
15:14:28 alex_xu dansmith: they are just /dev/pmem, but I don't get what relationship with the vpmem name at here
15:14:51 sean-k-mooney alex_xu: then use instace+flavor_name which is in the xml or add the uuid to the xml
15:14:52 dansmith alex_xu: okay so I don't understand why you have a problem accounting things with migration uuid vs. instance uuid at any given point
15:15:01 mriedem i think dan is saying, you claim the new_flavor devices on the dest host with the instance, and claim the old_flavor devices on the source host with the migration
15:15:26 dansmith sean-k-mooney: it's not a matter of storing that data, and further, flavor is an object that exists and is keyed in another database, so I think using it as a key here is a bad idea as well
15:15:33 dansmith mriedem: right
15:15:34 mriedem and by "claim the old_flavor devices on the source host with the migration" i mean, swap the mapping for the old_flavor device claim on the source host with the migration for the instance
15:15:41 dansmith mriedem: same pattern as we have elsewhere
15:16:13 alex_xu dansmith: the resize call to the dest host to claim the resource first, then how can we change the in-memory claim info in the source host? by another rpc call, back to the source host?
15:16:18 mriedem when you revert on the source host, you revert that mapping as well
15:16:38 dansmith alex_xu: you get a finish call or a revert call, so you do it then and there right?
15:16:40 mriedem alex_xu: do it when prep_resize casts to resize_instance on the source host?
15:16:46 sean-k-mooney well we could flip it and claim with the migration uuid on the dest
15:16:52 dansmith sean-k-mooney: no
15:17:02 dansmith sean-k-mooney: because then you have to change it again if they keep the instance, which is the natural path
15:17:02 sean-k-mooney ok
15:17:32 sean-k-mooney ya that is true you would have to change it in confrim resize
15:17:34 alex_xu dansmith: we should change to migration uuid before we add new claim for the target
15:17:42 mriedem or like dan said just swap the source host claim during confirm_resize or finish_revert_resize (i'm not sure you'd even need to change the latter)
15:17:57 alex_xu otherwise how can we distinguish the src and dest for the same host resize...
15:18:14 mriedem for same host resize,
15:18:21 mriedem you have some mapping of devices claimed on that host, right?
15:18:25 dansmith alex_xu: are you familiar with how we do this for placement allocations?
15:18:37 mriedem the instance maps to the new flavor device allocations, the migration maps to the old flavor device allocations
15:18:44 dansmith yes ^
15:18:46 alex_xu yea, I know those thing for placement
15:19:11 mriedem so for same host resize move claim it seems you'd:
15:19:17 mriedem 1. map migration = old flavor
15:19:27 mriedem 2. change instance mapping to point from old to new flavor
15:19:43 mriedem on confirm, you remove the mapping for the migration,
15:19:47 mriedem on revert, you:
15:19:52 mriedem 1. map instance to old flavor,
15:19:54 mriedem 2. drop the migration mapping
15:19:56 dansmith don't say flavor here
15:19:58 dansmith but yes
15:20:07 mriedem flavor device allocation thing 2000
15:20:29 mriedem will flavour work?
15:20:31 dansmith no
15:21:13 dansmith I think building more things using the existing pattern of using migration uuid to reserve the old resources is a good idea
15:21:28 alex_xu emm...I try to remember which case we said no for this in the beginning
15:21:33 alex_xu luyao: ^ help me
15:22:44 luyao alex_xu: I'm always trying...
15:25:39 tssurya mriedem: do you also prefer to push all the instance state checking and updates into the manager like dansmith ? since we have a lock there
15:26:01 alex_xu mriedem: dansmith the first rpc call to the comptute node for the resize is send to the dest src. so you can do map 'migration = old flavor' first
15:26:54 dansmith alex_xu: you can't, but you don't have to do the migration mapping until you hit the source for the first time
15:27:08 dansmith alex_xu: isn't this the exact same set of steps for allocations in placement? so the ordering should work the same way
15:27:53 openstackgerrit YAMAMOTO Takashi proposed openstack/nova master: Revert "Revert resize: wait for events according to hybrid plug" https://review.opendev.org/675021
15:27:54 openstackgerrit YAMAMOTO Takashi proposed openstack/nova master: Revert "Pass migration to finish_revert_migration()" https://review.opendev.org/676442
15:28:10 mriedem well, it's a little different with placement allocations since we can manage those at the top in conductor
15:28:15 alex_xu dansmith: we switch instance_uuid to migration_uuid in the conductor, right?
15:28:47 dansmith okay, that's fair
15:29:06 mriedem for example, if we claim the new devices on the dest in prep_resize, cast to resize_instance on the source, swap the old devices to the migration, and then something fails during the disk transfer or whatever, we won't go back to the dest to cleanup that old claim - but the RT should fix that up in a periodic
15:29:46 mriedem i don't know where these "claims" are stored in memory though - in the compute manager? RT? driver?
15:30:09 mriedem i'll just say, the RT logic is already super complex, and now it sounds like we're going to be duplicating parts of it elsewhere...
15:30:11 alex_xu mriedem: swap should be happened first for same host resize
15:30:32 alex_xu mriedem: claim store in driver
15:30:54 mriedem cleaning up from a failed same host resize is simpler since yo'ure on the same host, but not for different hosts
15:31:18 sean-k-mooney alex_xu: this is diferent then how we claim pci devices and cpu/hugepage right?
15:31:53 mriedem the driver doing resource tracking now.... :(
15:31:56 sean-k-mooney because for those i thought we stored the claims in the db via the RT rather then in memeroy
15:32:02 mriedem the resource tracker doing resource tracking still ... :(
15:32:02 alex_xu sean-k-mooney: yes, at least the vpmem and vgpu is managed by virt driver. pci and cpu managed by resource tracker
15:32:19 mriedem what a mess
15:32:31 mriedem some things in placement, some things in legacy nova tables and the RT, some things now in the driver
15:32:58 sean-k-mooney we should really be keepign all this in the RT untill its in placment
15:33:04 sean-k-mooney if its ever in placment
15:33:19 alex_xu sean-k-mooney: mriedem in the future, when pci and numa move to placement, then we needn't store in RT, right? then also managing in the virt driver?
15:33:19 sean-k-mooney put this in memory in the driver is worring
15:33:24 sean-k-mooney or at least complex
15:33:41 sean-k-mooney alex_xu: it will still be needed in some cases
15:33:42 alex_xu sean-k-mooney: hah, you say different with dansmith :)
15:34:03 sean-k-mooney we placement wont be tracking indeivusal device assignment
15:34:18 sean-k-mooney e.g which vf(pci addres) the vm is using
15:34:38 sean-k-mooney to do that we would need to create a RP per vf which we are not going to do
15:34:42 alex_xu sean-k-mooney: yea, that is what happen for vgpu and vpmem
15:35:15 dansmith I'm not sure what sean-k-mooney said that is different than me
15:35:24 sean-k-mooney so the "assignment" infomation will always need to live in nova
15:35:47 sean-k-mooney the tally count of how many are avaliable wil be in placment
15:36:02 dansmith sean-k-mooney: when we previously discussed this, I wanted to avoid nova storing a mapping between the actual pmem device and the instance in our database, for a specific reason
15:36:08 alex_xu I think dansmith said we use libvirt to persistent the assigment of devices, not DB. sean-k-mooney is talk about we still need the DB
15:37:04 dansmith right, so we have the mapping between instances and pmem devices stored in the libvirt xml
15:37:04 sean-k-mooney well currently we regenerate teh xmls on lots of operations so storign the mapping in the xml will be invasive
15:37:28 dansmith whatever, I give up, do whatever ya
15:37:31 dansmith 'll want
15:37:35 sean-k-mooney it will be there implictly i guess
15:37:55 alex_xu dansmith: no...
15:38:06 sean-k-mooney dansmith: we dont need to store it in the db provide we will never use it in a filter
15:38:26 sean-k-mooney we only need to store the pci info in the db to use it with the numa/pci passthough filters
15:38:41 sean-k-mooney same for the numa toplogy blob
15:39:05 sean-k-mooney we could caluate them locally on the host and keep it in meory otherwise
15:39:40 mriedem what happens when i need a weigher to pick hosts with more or less allocated pmems?!
15:39:47 sean-k-mooney so if the only schduling for vpmem is done via placmeent then the assignment could be track via the xml
15:40:13 mriedem or pmem affinity
15:40:18 sean-k-mooney mriedem: we would either need to call placement for the data or we cant
15:40:55 mriedem btw, are there a fair number of rhosp users using vgpus now that you're on queens?

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