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#openstack-nova - 2017-12-08
12:45:03 giblet I hope by rechecking all the bounced patches we will DDoS the whole gate down again ;]
12:45:43 fried_rice I'm deliberately holding off on 10 of them.
12:46:18 openstackgerrit Balazs Gibizer proposed openstack/nova master: Add regression test for bug 1735407 https://review.openstack.org/526095
12:46:20 openstack bug 1735407 in OpenStack Compute (nova) "[Nova] Evacuation doesn't respect anti-affinity rules" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1735407 - Assigned to Balazs Gibizer (balazs-gibizer)
12:46:20 openstackgerrit Balazs Gibizer proposed openstack/nova master: Add late server group policy check to rebuild https://review.openstack.org/525242
12:46:43 giblet oops, two more :)
12:47:26 fried_rice cdent I've got about 4-4.5h in me today, then on vacation. Were you serious in your offer to babysit my code while I'm out?
12:48:29 cdent fried_rice: a) yes (in part because I want to understand it better ), b) I thought you were supposed to already be gone
12:48:47 sean-k-m2 giblet: it wont ddos the gate. zuul will just enqueue them and run them when nodepool says there is an env availably to it
12:49:33 giblet sean-k-mooney: what a relief
12:50:04 giblet fried_rice, cdent: I'm here and active until 20th of Dec so I can offer at least my review help on those patches
12:50:19 sean-k-mooney cdent: im pretty sure you can by coffee enfused cold medicine
12:50:46 fried_rice cdent giblet Okay cool, so what I was gonna say is, if y'all got time over the next couple hours to look at those, I can answer any questions or explain any weirdness.
12:51:02 fried_rice sean-k-mooney Don't they call that "Irish coffee"? ;P
12:51:19 sean-k-mooney cdent: but if that does not work you can try the irish solution of brandy/wisky infused coffe
12:52:56 fried_rice cdent Can you explain this delta? https://review.openstack.org/#/c/414230/2..6/nova/scheduler/client/report.py@180 In particular, why did we feel it necessary to check for both `openstack-request-id` and `x-openstack-request-id`?
12:54:53 cdent sean-k-mooney: that will be later in the day, while I think a weekly resource providers update supported by whisky might be entertaining, it might not be all that useful
12:55:23 cdent fried_rice: because there was a brief time when both was going to be supported (as in moving to not using the x- prefix) but then that didn’t happen
12:55:36 fried_rice Okay, so https://review.openstack.org/#/c/523606/ is kosher?
12:56:10 sean-k-mooney x-openstack-request-id is the http header we use for the osprofiler stuff right?
12:56:23 fried_rice oh, you're saying we still might move to the non-x version at some point, whereupon the above would have to be reverted?
12:56:42 sean-k-mooney i taught all non standard http headers were required to have an x prefix
12:56:45 cdent it is kosher, as I said on my +1 on ps3
12:57:06 cdent sean-k-mooney: they got rid of that requirement somewhere in the last 3 years or so
12:57:42 cdent fried_rice: even if we did move to wanting the new style, we would have to continue producing the old style, because of compatibility between version
12:57:42 fried_rice Oh, I didn't see your review. Cool.
12:57:43 sean-k-mooney cdent: i guess to prevent peopel from updating all there code to support both when its standariesed
12:58:02 cdent it’s like how the microversion headers in nova always return and support both the old and new styles
12:58:06 cdent sean-k-mooney: yes
13:00:59 sean-k-mooney in anycase key.endswith('-request-id') was a little too broad before i like the v6 version more that said wont this rais an exception if neither form are found
13:01:16 openstackgerrit Takashi NATSUME proposed openstack/nova master: [placement] Add x-openstack-request-id in API ref https://review.openstack.org/523007
13:02:04 openstackgerrit Takashi NATSUME proposed openstack/nova master: List/show all server migration types (1/2) https://review.openstack.org/430608
13:04:06 openstackgerrit Takashi NATSUME proposed openstack/nova master: List/show all server migration types (2/2) https://review.openstack.org/459483
13:05:43 sean-k-mooney actully never mind if .get does not find the key and no default is given it returns None instead of raising an exception
13:17:34 openstackgerrit Silvan Kaiser proposed openstack/nova master: Added mount fstype based validation of Quobyte mounts https://review.openstack.org/522245
13:32:49 giblet fried_rice: regarding https://review.openstack.org/#/c/521605 Can we change the traits of an RP without bumping its generation?
13:33:21 giblet fried_rice: I wondering about having the default None in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/521605/5/nova/compute/provider_tree.py@134 is necessary
13:35:02 fried_rice giblet So
13:35:42 fried_rice IIUC, the generation is intended to be used to detect async updates when we push stuff back to placement.
13:36:00 fried_rice at the moment, I feel like it's not well defined how it's supposed to get used.
13:36:35 fried_rice I.e. who's responsible for bumping the generation, who's responsible for checking for inconsistencies, what the result of an inconsistency should be (exception? HTTP error? Retry? ...)
13:37:42 giblet fried_rice: I think the client should send in bumped generation and the server is responsible to reject update with outdated generation
13:37:58 fried_rice I think that's about the gist of it, yeah.
13:38:02 leakypipes fried_rice: the nova.objects.resource_provider._increment_provider_generation() function pretty well explains it.
13:39:49 fried_rice leakypipes So the server side is responsible for incrementing the generation.
13:40:04 fried_rice It should never be done by the client
13:40:45 fried_rice The client is supposed to take the generation from the server side, make whatever changes to the *other* fields, and push back the object with the *same* generation, which lets the server detect whether a concurrent update occurred.
13:41:11 fried_rice IOW, the only time we should be updating the generation in ProviderTree is when we've freshly retrieved the object from placement.
13:42:12 giblet leakypipes, fried_rice: thanks, now it make sense
13:43:01 giblet fried_rice: so the case when generation is None in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/521605/5/nova/compute/provider_tree.py@134 is when the client update the trait of the RP
13:43:43 leakypipes fried_rice: the client is responsible for refreshing its knowledge of the latest generation, yes.
13:44:13 fried_rice giblet Yeah, so the code path (in a subsequent patch in the series) is going to be a GET of the RP's traits. Uhm, I need to check whether that response includes the RP generation I suppose.
13:44:30 leakypipes fried_rice: it does not.
13:44:51 fried_rice Okay. Then we would have no way to know what to update it to.
13:45:05 fried_rice In fact, I'm not even sure we should have the generation arg there at all...
13:45:15 fried_rice Same for aggregates, I assume.
13:46:09 leakypipes fried_rice: changing aggregates doesn't increment the generation.
13:47:39 leakypipes fried_rice: because when you associate or disassociate an aggregate, you aren't changing the state of the resource provider's own attributes (like traits or inventories). there could be an argument made for incrementing the generation when aggs change on a rp, but I'm a bit skeptical about that
13:48:40 fried_rice leakypipes But generation would change if you update traits?
13:48:46 giblet leakypipes: the worst thing is that two parallel aggregate update on the same RP overwrites each others
13:50:09 leakypipes giblet: sure, understood.
13:50:14 leakypipes fried_rice: yes.
13:50:40 leakypipes fried_rice: for instance, if/when we support setting distances between aggregates (for affinity/anti-affinity), some attribute of the aggregate is being changed that could affect placement decisions and therefore the generation should be incremented.
13:51:11 fried_rice That makes sense. But in that case, the RP generation should really come back with the GET of traits/aggs, nah?
13:52:18 fried_rice leakypipes But then we run into the issue of: if I have my RP cached at generation 1, and I GET traits and they come back at generation 2, I really ought to re-GET the RP - and on and on until the generation agrees on all the GETs.
13:52:52 leakypipes fried_rice: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/trait.py#L215
13:52:59 leakypipes fried_rice: the generation is return when listing traits.
13:53:07 mriedem so i guess zuul just totally crapped out last night huh
13:53:15 leakypipes mriedem: yup
13:53:29 leakypipes fried_rice: correctomundo.
13:53:51 leakypipes fried_rice: which is why your proposed (GET /resource_providers_and_all_the_subresources call makes sense to me.
13:55:05 fried_rice mriedem They restarted some stuff that may have fixed it around 4h ago, but backlog will take a while to clear.
13:55:21 mriedem yikes
13:55:30 mriedem we've had things sitting in the gate for 2 days now
13:55:31 mriedem but ok
13:56:24 fried_rice leakypipes Okay, I had gotten the impression that that guy wasn't going to get traction; the code in my current series does all of that via a dozen separate calls (but without the generation checking).
13:58:15 leakypipes fried_rice: ack. which is fine, frankly. it may seem like there's a potential for data corruption, but aside from the aggregates, there isn't.
13:58:42 cdent fried_rice: i think the lack of traction is not because it is a fundamentally bad idea, but because there’s insufficient sharing of info on what all that stuff’s doing (as I’ve noted in the rp updated pushed out just now)
14:00:58 fried_rice cdent sorry, noted where?
14:01:43 cdent fried_rice: in the nested providers section of http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-December/125318.html
14:03:05 leakypipes fried_rice: cdent is referring to his weekly status email
14:03:10 leakypipes oh, jinx
14:03:54 fried_rice aha
14:04:55 leakypipes cdent, giblet, fried_rice: in any case, to just wrap this conversation up in a tidy little bow, the resource provider generation protects the resource provider's important attributes (inventories, traits, allocations, etc) against concurrent writes. It means that yes, you need to occasionally refresh that generation if you get a 409 Conflict about a concurrent write.
14:05:47 cdent leakypipes: we still haven’t done server side retry of allocations have we? reckon we should get that in sooner than later or does it matter?
14:06:50 fried_rice leakypipes At the moment the only thing that's actually doing RP updates (qua updates - not fresh creates) is inventory. And there's no concurrency issues yet because it's always 1:1 compute node to RP.
14:06:51 leakypipes but also keep in mind that that refresh/concurrent update on the provider generation is exceedingly rare in the ProviderTree (since the compute host is what houses the ProviderTree and all operations against it are currently done while holding a semaphore in the compute manager. The scheduler's claim_resources() block is where the contention is, but it's designed for quick retries when it receives a 409 Conflict for either a concurrent update
14:06:52 leakypipes or a capacity exceeded due to a concurrent claim
14:07:17 leakypipes fried_rice: claim_resources() in the scheduler is the only hot-spot currently.
14:07:23 leakypipes fried_rice: and that is by design.
14:07:50 fried_rice wait, claims don't update a RP generation, do they??
14:07:54 leakypipes cdent: nope, only client-side (in the reportclient.claim_resources(*)
14:08:01 leakypipes fried_rice: they absolutely do.
14:08:21 fried_rice oh, dang, then we definitely need to do more than we're doing.
14:08:56 leakypipes fried_rice: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/objects/resource_provider.py#L2098
14:09:14 cdent leakypipes: Is that “no we shouldn’t bother” or “ack, I agree we aren’t”
14:09:46 figleaf mriedem: heh, you are already rechecking the alternate host series
14:10:01 leakypipes cdent: on the server-side retry thing? that was a "no, we just haven't gotten to that yet and I'm not too worried because we have client-side retries"
14:10:13 leakypipes cdent: i.e. the server-side would be a welcome optimization but isn't unsafe
14:10:15 figleaf mriedem: I had them open, and didn't see your update until I rechecked 'em

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