On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:21:31PM -0500, Andrew Laski wrote: > > On 02/02/2015 11:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:19:45AM -0500, Andrew Laski wrote: > >>On 02/02/2015 05:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>>On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:20:08AM -0800, Noel Burton-Krahn wrote: > >>>>Thanks for bringing this up, Daniel. I don't think it makes sense to have > >>>>a timeout on live migration, but operators should be able to cancel it, > >>>>just like any other unbounded long-running process. For example, there's > >>>>no timeout on file transfers, but they need an interface report progress > >>>>and to cancel them. That would imply an option to cancel evacuation too. > >>>There has been periodic talk about a generic "tasks API" in Nova for > >>>managing > >>>long running operations and getting information about their progress, but I > >>>am not sure what the status of that is. It would obviously be applicable to > >>>migration if that's a route we took. > >>Currently the status of a tasks API is that it would happen after the API > >>v2.1 microversions work has created a suitable framework in which to add > >>tasks to the API. > >So is all work on tasks blocked by the microversions support ? I would have > >though that would only block places where we need to modify existing APIs. > >Are we not able to add APIs for listing / cancelling tasks as new APIs > >without such a dependency on microversions ? > > Tasks work is certainly not blocked on waiting for microversions. There is a > large amount of non API facing work that could be done to move forward the > idea of a task driving state changes within Nova. I would very likely be > working on that if I wasn't currently spending much of my time on cells v2.
Ok, thanks for the info. So from the POV of migration, I'll focus on the non-API stuff, and expect the tasks work to provide the API mechanisms Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
