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#openstack-nova - 2023-04-12
11:52:16 sean-k-mooney so you should be able to do db sync before an restarts
11:52:23 sean-k-mooney im not sure about online migration
11:52:59 noonedeadpunk yeah, db_syncs are done before, but were followed with online migrations...
11:53:01 sean-k-mooney part of me expect thost to happen after the db models are updated i.e. after all the contoelr services are restarted
11:53:35 noonedeadpunk What I'm not sure about, if upgrade_check is going to pass if only conductor/api is available, but no computes. I assume it should not care as long as cell mappings are in place.
11:53:38 sean-k-mooney so im not sure that will break things but it leave a window where more data could be created because fo the old db model that is in use
11:54:00 noonedeadpunk Well. That is true.
11:54:15 sean-k-mooney so i think online migration shoudl be after the restarts
11:54:16 noonedeadpunk But docs you've shown say it should be done after everything
11:54:30 sean-k-mooney ya
11:54:39 sean-k-mooney i would generally put them right at the end
11:54:43 noonedeadpunk As partially data will be migrated when requested even without migrations
11:54:44 sean-k-mooney when all services are fully upgraded
11:55:01 noonedeadpunk yup, great, thanks for help as usual!
11:55:38 sean-k-mooney so the thing is as long as you are not trying to skip several release
11:55:45 sean-k-mooney we will have the fall back code
11:55:57 sean-k-mooney so the online migrations coudl be done even in a seperate maintaince window
11:55:59 noonedeadpunk well, it seemed working nicely old way as well for years, so I was quite tentative to touch anything there :D
11:56:15 sean-k-mooney but tis better to do them as part of the normal upgrade after all the services are updated
11:56:52 sean-k-mooney where you would have a probelm is if there is a db contraction
11:57:00 sean-k-mooney alotugh i dont think that woule be part of the online migrations
11:57:14 sean-k-mooney i.e. if we removed a column
11:57:32 noonedeadpunk Yeah, that what I was thinking about
11:57:57 noonedeadpunk that if db schema changes - it should not be done post, but I assume it's done during db_sync
11:58:14 noonedeadpunk which is done really at early stage
11:58:15 sean-k-mooney ya that a good point
11:58:26 sean-k-mooney schema chagnes are seperate
11:58:39 sean-k-mooney the online migation are just data migrations
11:59:07 noonedeadpunk ok, then will see how CI will fail dramatically with my changes :D
12:04:49 bauzas noonedeadpunk: as it was written in the docs I passed, db sync are only changing the schemas
12:05:42 bauzas noonedeadpunk: then either we change the data internally (either by a lazy call, or when restarting the service), or we ask operators to run online_data_migration
12:06:26 bauzas but online_data_migration can run during all the cycle, until you want to upgrade to a new release
12:07:34 bauzas then, once you want to upgrade, you can before run nova-status upgrade check for verifying that you're done with the online data migrations
12:08:38 noonedeadpunk with N-1 online data migrations, right?
12:10:07 noonedeadpunk so running upgrade check on N will verify that N-1 migrations are done
12:10:22 noonedeadpunk or well, N-2 with slurp, but that's different topic :D
12:13:40 bauzas yup
12:14:08 noonedeadpunk ok, awesome, thanks for your time and patience :)
13:35:58 dansmith noonedeadpunk: yeah, can't run online migrations until you're past the point where conductors, api, scheduler are upgraded (or stopped before upgrade
13:36:12 dansmith noonedeadpunk: the idea is that online migrations should be run *after* everything is done and back up
13:36:34 dansmith services will migrate what they need on-demand, and the online migrations are just there to push things that don't get migrated on demand
13:38:53 noonedeadpunk yup, thanks for confirming that!
13:41:10 noonedeadpunk will go bug cinder folks with the same question then :-)
13:45:37 dansmith ack, I didn't mean to repeat, just wasn't sure there was a clear summary of that convo, but sounds like you got it :)
13:46:56 noonedeadpunk yeah, I've pushed change as a result - I should have posted it https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_nova/+/880147
13:57:41 dansmith noonedeadpunk: I think running the status check after online migrations also makes sense as there are cases where it will tell you that there are still pending migrations to do if they're not complete
13:57:51 dansmith but regardless, the meat of that change sounds right yeah
14:52:29 bauzas dansmith: thanks for having explained it better than me :)
14:52:53 bauzas your summary is far easier :)
15:12:49 dansmith bauzas: when you're done with the current call you're on I want to chat about some resource tracker stuff
15:54:38 noonedeadpunk between not that long ago (on PTG?) we've discussed enable_new_services option. And it should be applied not for computes at the end of the day, but somewhere on conductor/scheduler/api - not sure where exactly as I have them combined at same place (with same nova.conf)
15:55:34 noonedeadpunk so while it's defined in nova.conf.compute - it's not compute option
15:55:51 noonedeadpunk (https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/src/branch/master/nova/conf/compute.py#L1456-L1474)
15:57:08 dansmith conductor
15:57:11 dansmith but we could also fix that
16:00:09 bauzas dansmith: I'm here
16:00:29 dansmith bauzas: so... the RT has this notion of "disabled compute nodes"
16:00:51 dansmith which seems to cover things actually disabled (via ironic) as well as "no such compute node on this host"
16:01:06 dansmith we do some weird things in move claims if we think the compute node is missing,
16:01:13 dansmith like accept the migration but do no claim
16:01:15 bauzas iirc, this was done for the latter, not the former case
16:01:41 dansmith the latter meaning a missing compute node?
16:01:46 dansmith I can't think of any reason why that would make sense, as we'll just mess up our accounting
16:02:24 dansmith https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/879682/2/nova/compute/resource_tracker.py#296
16:02:31 dansmith so I'm looking at that ^ specifically
16:02:46 dansmith where we just do a nopclaim and return from move_claim
16:03:44 dansmith which means, AFAICT, we would have created the migration object on the target machine, claimed no resources, and agreed to accept the new incoming instance
16:03:55 dansmith even though it's for a node that we don't have or know anything about?
16:04:28 bauzas I'm just trying to understand the intent
16:04:37 dansmith also note this from mr. pipes: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/compute/resource_tracker.py#L154
16:04:51 dansmith in the instance claim, which we'll also do weird stuff for new instances with no such node
16:05:08 dansmith the earlier part of the comment says it shouldn't happen
16:05:24 dansmith so, like, I'm confused and feel like this is probably some very old cruft
16:05:43 dansmith like, surely we can't have these things happen in a placement world and not get everything messed up, right?
16:06:12 bauzas yeah, found the commit https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1c967593fbb0ab8b9dc8b0b509e388591d32f537
16:07:10 bauzas ok, so now I think I remember where it comes
16:07:25 bauzas the virt drivers are responsible for creating the RTs
16:08:06 bauzas at compute startup, we were originally setting one RT per compute node resources dict that was returned by the virt driver
16:08:21 bauzas and then mr jay factorized that
16:08:27 bauzas by having one single RT instance
16:08:30 dansmith ...right
16:09:09 bauzas so the disabled property was originally coming from the fact there could be a race where the RT was instanciated but the virt resources not fully set up
16:10:41 dansmith that may be the case for startup, but we should never accept an instance boot or migration if we can't account for the resources right?
16:10:54 bauzas https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1c967593fbb0ab8b9dc8b0b509e388591d32f537#diff-ed9525d7ae319fd575249ed72daf634d27182e08fea7a4f740cb3164233612b7L435
16:12:00 bauzas well, that whole thing predates placement
16:12:00 bauzas https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1c967593fbb0ab8b9dc8b0b509e388591d32f537#diff-ed9525d7ae319fd575249ed72daf634d27182e08fea7a4f740cb3164233612b7L412
16:12:07 dansmith right
16:12:14 dansmith (those links do not link to a hunk for me, btw)
16:12:21 bauzas ah shit
16:12:28 bauzas so, the fact is, before placement,
16:12:38 bauzas we were relying on the ComputeNode records for scheduling
16:13:09 bauzas if there were no ComputeNode records, then the HostStates from the scheduler weren't generated
16:13:23 bauzas and no instances were able to schedule into them
16:13:47 dansmith your point being that we could (should) never get into that case where we do the NopClaims because of that?
16:14:05 dansmith I think that's probably also not true because of forced migrations
16:14:35 bauzas the NopClaims were there for saying 'meh'
16:14:53 bauzas if no compute record was existing then basically we were tracking nothing
16:14:56 dansmith right but they also cause us to skip all the other stuff like PCI and migration objects, etc
16:15:10 dansmith but we allow the instance to be sent there
16:15:40 bauzas if the scheduler isn't having a compute node record, then it shouldn't be able to send an instance to it

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