Liuji (Jeremy) said on Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:06:57AM +0000:
> Test scenario:
> 1)There are two compute nodes in the environment named A and B. A has two
> NICs of vendor_id='8086' and product_id='105e', B has two NICs of
> vendor_id='8086' and product_id='10c9'.
> 2)I configured "pci_alias={"vendor_id":"8086", "product_id":"10c9",
> "name":"a1"}" in nova.conf on the controller node, and of course the
> pci_passthrough_whitelist on this two compute nodes seperately.
> 3)Finally, a flavor named "MyTest" with extra_specs=
> {u'pci_passthrough:alias': u'a1:1'}
> 4)When I create a new instance with the "MyTest" flavor, it starts or is
> error randomly.
>
> The problem is in the _schedule function of
> nova/scheduler/filter_scheduler.py:
> chosen_host = random.choice(
> weighed_hosts[0:scheduler_host_subset_size])
> selected_hosts.append(chosen_host)
>
> # Now consume the resources so the filter/weights
> # will change for the next instance.
> chosen_host.obj.consume_from_instance(instance_properties)
>
> while "scheduler_host_subset_size" is configured to 2, the
> weighed_hosts are A and B, but the chosen_host is selected randomly.
> When chosen_host is B, the instance starts, but when chosen_host is A,
> the instance becomes error. The "consume_from_instance" will raise a
> exception.
Hi Jeremy,
You didn't mention the PciPassthroughFilter, have you enabled this in
your scheduler?
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Pci_passthrough
Alexis
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Nova Engineer, HP Cloud. AKA lealexis, lxsli.
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