Here's the 19th placement and resource providers update. As usual,
if I've left anything out, please followup with that information.
# What Matters Most
Discussion continues on the spec for claims being done during
scheduling. Getting this worked out and implemented is a high
priority. Links below.
# What's Changed
The routes and handlers for adding and manipulating traits in the
placement API have now merged. This opens the door for starting to
report traits for compute-nodes and other resource providers and
filtering based on those traits (note that the added code does not
support that filtering, what's been added is the interface to CRUD
traits).
The spec for associating user and project information with
allocations and for being able to view usages based on those
characteristics has been merged. We had to go a few rounds as we
were so excited about this idea we missed some critical bits:
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/pike/approved/placement-project-user.html
The placement-api-ref gate job that checks the docs is now linking
the output. Here's a sample (which may have expired by the time you
are reading this message):
http://docs-draft.openstack.org/98/456198/1/check/gate-placement-api-ref-nv/deee665//placement-api-ref/build/html/
More about docs below.
# Help Wanted
Areas where volunteers are needed.
* General attention to bugs tagged placement:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=placement
* Helping to create api documentation for placement (see the Docs
section below).
* Helping to create and evaluate functional tests of the resource
tracker and the ways in which it and nova-scheduler use the
reporting client. For some info see
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-placement-functional
and talk to edleafe.
* Performance testing. If you have access to some nodes, some basic
benchmarking and profiling would be very useful. See the
performance section below.
# Main Themes
## Traits
The main API is in place, there's one patch left for a new command
to sync the os-traits library into the database:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/450125/
There is a stack of changes to the os-traits library to add more traits
and also automate creating symbols associated with the trait
strings:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/448282/
## Ironic/Custom Resource Classes
There's a blueprint for "custom resource classes in flavors" that
describes the stuff that will actually make use of custom resource
classes:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/custom-resource-classes-in-flavors
The spec has merged, but the implementation has not yet started.
Over in Ironic some functional and integration tests have started:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/443628/
## Claims in the Scheduler
Progress has been made on the spec for claims in the scheduler:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/437424/
Continued eyes and brains required. The current state is that more
detail is desired on why some particular design choices are being
made.
Thinking about this stuff has also revealed some places where it's
possible for allocations to become wrong or orphaned:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1679750
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1661312
## Shared Resource Providers
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/shared-resources-pike
Progress on this will continue once traits and claims have moved forward.
## Nested Resource Providers
On hold while attention is given to traits and claims. There's a
stack of code waiting until all of that settles:
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:master+topic:bp/nested-resource-providers
## Docs
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:cd/placement-api-ref
Several reviews are in progress for documenting the placement API.
This is likely going to take quite a few iterations as we work out
the patterns and tooling. But it's great to see the progress and
when looking at the draft rendered docs it makes placement feel like
a real thing™.
Find me (cdent) or Andrey (avolkov) if you want to help out or have
other questions.
## Performance
We're aware that there are some redundancies in the resource tracker
that we'd like to clean up
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-January/110953.html
but it's also the case that we've done no performance testing on the
placement service itself.
We ought to do some testing to make sure there aren't unexpected
performance drains.
# Other Code/Specs
* https://review.openstack.org/#/c/448791/
Idempotent PUT for resource classes. This is something that was
discovered while evaluating some resource tracker code.
Once this merges a change to the report client can be made
to use it.
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1632852
Cache headers not produced by placement API. This was assigned to
several different people over time, but I'm not sure if there is
any active code.
* https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/placement-newton-leftovers
There's still some lingering stuff on here, some of which is
mentioned elsewhere in this message, but not all.
* https://review.openstack.org/#/c/456717/
There's effort afoot over in devstack to use a combination of
apache2, mod_proxy_uwsgi, and uwsgi itself to run the services.
The review above is to the placement part of that. This allows
the placement api to be managed by systemd, not occupy a port,
and have some reasonable log handling.
* https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/osc-placement
Work has started on an osc-plugin that can provide a command
line interface to the placement API.
# End
Thanks for reading.
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