Jay-
Good, detailed summary, it pretty much matches with what I heard.
The one thing I want to do is I've setup a wiki page to track our progress (I
find email/etherpads deficient for this task). I've tried to include
everything from the email threads and the summit etherpads at:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Gantt/kilo
If I've missed anything let me know and I'll update the wiki.
--
Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:59 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Michael Still; sgor...@redhat.com;
Dugger, Donald D
Subject: [nova] RT/Scheduler summit summary and Kilo development plan
Good morning Stackers,
At the summit in Paris, we put together a plan for work on the Nova resource
tracker and scheduler in the Kilo timeframe. A large number of contributors
across many companies are all working on this particular part of the Nova code
base, so it's important that we keep coordinated and updated on the overall
efforts. I'll work together with Don Dugger this cycle to make sure we make
steady, measured progress. If you are involved in this effort, please do be
sure to attend the weekly scheduler IRC meetings [1] (Tuesdays @ 1500UTC on
#openstack-meeting).
== Decisions from Summit ==
The following decisions were made at the summit session [2]:
1) The patch series for virt CPU pinning [3] and huge page support [4] shall
not be approved until nova/virt/hardware.py is modified to use nova.objects as
its serialization/domain object model. Jay is responsible for the conversion
patches, and this patch series should be fully proposed by end of this week.
2) We agreed on the concepts introduced by the resource-objects blueprint [5],
with a caveat that child object versioning be discussed in greater depth with
Jay, Paul, and Dan Smith.
3) We agreed on all concepts and implementation from the 2 isolate-scheduler-db
blueprints: aggregates [6] and instance groups [7]
4) We agreed on implementation and need for separating compute node object from
the service object [8]
5) We agreed on concept and implementation for converting the request spec from
a dict to a versioned object [9] as well as converting
select_destinations() to use said object [10]
[6] We agreed on the need for returning a proper object from the virt driver's
get_available_resource() method [11] but AFAICR, we did not say that this
object needed to use nova/objects because this is an interface internal to the
virt layer and resource tracker, and the ComputeNode nova.object will handle
the setting of resource-related fields properly.
[7] We agreed the unit tests for the resource tracker were, well, crappy, and
are a real source of pain in making changes to the resource tracker itself. So,
we resolved to fix them up in early Kilo-1
[8] We are not interested in adding any additional functionality to the
scheduler outside already-agreed NUMA blueprint functionality in Kilo.
The goal is to get the scheduler fully independent of the Nova database, and
communicating with nova-conductor and nova-compute via fully versioned
interfaces by the end of Kilo, so that a split of the scheduler can occur at
the start of the L release cycle.
== Action Items ==
1) Jay to propose patches that objectify the domain objects in
nova/virt/hardware.py by EOB November 21
2) Paul Murray, Jay, and Alexis Lee to work on refactoring of the unit tests
around the resource tracker in early Kilo-1
3) Dan Smith, Paul Murray, and Jay to discuss the issues with child object
versioning
4) Ed Leafe to work on separating the compute node from the service object in
Kilo-1
5) Sylvain Bauza to work on the request spec and select_destinations() to use
request spec blueprints to be completed for Kilo-2
6) Paul Murray, Sylvain Bauza to work on the isolate-scheduler-db aggregate and
instance groups blueprints to be completed by Kilo-3
7) Jay to complete the resource-objects blueprint work by Kilo-2
8) Dan Berrange, Sahid, and Nikola Dipanov to work on completing the CPU
pinning, huge page support, and get_available_resources() blueprints in
Kilo-1
== Open Items ==
1) We need to figure out who is working on the objectification of the PCI
tracker stuff (Yunjong maybe or Robert Li?)
2) The child object version thing needs to be thoroughly vetted.
Basically, the nova.objects.compute_node.ComputeNode object will have a series
of sub objects for resources (NUMA, PCI, other stuff) and Paul Murray has some
questions on how to handle the child object versioning properly.
3) Need to coordinate with Steve Gordon, Adrian Hoban, and Ian Wells on NUMA
hardware in an external testing lab that the NFV subteam is working on getting
up and running [12]. We need functional tests (Tempest+Nova) written for all
NUMA-related functionality in the RT and scheduler by end of Kilo-3, but have
yet to divvy up the work to make this a reality.
== Conclusion ==
Please everyone read the above thoroughly and respond if I have missed anything
or left anyone out of the conversation. Really appreciate everyone coming
together to get this work done over the next 4-5 months.
Best,
-jay
[1]
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings#Gantt_.28Scheduler.29_team_meeting
[2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-nova-scheduler-rt
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/129606/
[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/129608/
[5] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127609/
[6] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/89893/
[7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/131553/
[8] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126895/
[9] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127610/
[10] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127612/
[11] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/133728/
[12]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-November/050306.html
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