Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-09 Thread Herman Narkaytis
Hi All, Last couple of month Mirantis team was working on new scalable scheduler architecture. The main concept was proposed by Boris Pavlovic in the following blue print https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/no-db-scheduler and Alexey Ovchinnikov prepared a bunch of patches

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-09 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Herman Narkaytis's message of 2013-12-09 08:18:17 -0800: Hi All, Last couple of month Mirantis team was working on new scalable scheduler architecture. The main concept was proposed by Boris Pavlovic in the following blue print

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Robert Collins
The team size was a minimum, not a maximum - please add your names. We're currently waiting on the prerequisite blueprint to land before work starts in earnest; and for the blueprint to be approved (he says, without having checked to see if it has been now:)) -Rob On 3 December 2013 20:48,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Calum Loudon
Hi all More volunteers for you - myself (Calum Loudon) and Colin Tregenza Dancer from Metaswitch (http://metaswitch.com). We're new to OpenStack development, so a bit of context: we develop software for the telecoms space, ranging from low-level network stacks to voice applications. We see

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Thierry Carrez
Russell Bryant wrote: On 12/02/2013 11:41 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: I don't really care that much about deprecation in that case, but I care about which release the new project is made part of. Would you make it part of the Icehouse common release ? That means fast-tracking through incubation

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Khanh-Toan Tran
We are also interested in the proposal and would like to contribute whatever we can. Currently we're working on nova-scheduler we think that an independent scheduler is a need for Openstack. We've been engaging in several discussions on this topic in the ML as well as in Nova meeting, thus we were

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Boris Pavlovic
Hi all, Finally found a bit time to write my thoughts. There are few blockers that make really complex to build scheduler as a services or even to move main part of scheduler code to separated lib. We already have one unsuccessfully effort

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/03/2013 07:22 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote: Hi all, Finally found a bit time to write my thoughts. There are few blockers that make really complex to build scheduler as a services or even to move main part of scheduler code to separated lib. We already have one unsuccessfully effort

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Yathiraj Udupi (yudupi)
I totally agree on this meta level scheduler aspect. This should separate the placement decision making logic (for resources of any type, but can start on Nova resources) from their actual creation, say VM creation. This way the placement decisions can be relayed to the individual components

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-03 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/03/2013 03:17 AM, Robert Collins wrote: The team size was a minimum, not a maximum - please add your names. We're currently waiting on the prerequisite blueprint to land before work starts in earnest; and for the blueprint to be approved (he says, without having checked to see if it

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 11/29/2013 10:01 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Robert Collins wrote: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler Just looked into it with release management / TC hat on and I have a (possibly minor) concern on the deprecation path/timing. Assuming everything goes well, the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Monty Taylor
On 12/02/2013 09:13 AM, Russell Bryant wrote: On 11/29/2013 10:01 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Robert Collins wrote: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler Just looked into it with release management / TC hat on and I have a (possibly minor) concern on the deprecation

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 10:33 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: Just because I'd like to argue - if what we do here is an actual forklift, do we really need a cycle of deprecation? The reason I ask is that this is, on first stab, not intended to be a service that has user-facing API differences. It's a

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Gary Kotton
On 12/2/13 5:39 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 10:33 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: Just because I'd like to argue - if what we do here is an actual forklift, do we really need a cycle of deprecation? The reason I ask is that this is, on first stab, not intended to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 10:53 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: On 12/2/13 5:39 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 10:33 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: Just because I'd like to argue - if what we do here is an actual forklift, do we really need a cycle of deprecation? The reason I ask is

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Gary Kotton
On 12/2/13 5:33 PM, Monty Taylor mord...@inaugust.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:13 AM, Russell Bryant wrote: On 11/29/2013 10:01 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Robert Collins wrote: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://etherpad.openstack.o

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Thierry Carrez
Monty Taylor wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:13 AM, Russell Bryant wrote: On 11/29/2013 10:01 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Robert Collins wrote: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler Just looked into it with release management / TC hat on and I have a (possibly minor) concern on

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 11:41 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: I don't really care that much about deprecation in that case, but I care about which release the new project is made part of. Would you make it part of the Icehouse common release ? That means fast-tracking through incubation *and* integration in

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: I think that this is certainly different. It is something that we we want and need a user facing API. Examples: - aggregates - per host scheduling - instance groups Etc. That is just taking the nova options into account and not the other

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 02/12/2013 18:12, Russell Bryant a écrit : On 12/02/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: I think that this is certainly different. It is something that we we want and need a user facing API. Examples: - aggregates - per host scheduling - instance groups Etc. That is just taking the nova

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: I think that this is certainly different. It is something that we we want and need a user facing API. Examples: - aggregates - per host scheduling - instance groups Etc.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 03:31 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: I think that this is certainly different. It is something that we we want and need a user facing API. Examples: - aggregates -

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Chris Friesen
On 12/02/2013 02:31 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: I'm going to reopen a can of worms, though. I think the most difficult part of the forklift will be moving stuff out of the existing databases into a new database. Do we really need to move it to a new database for the forklift? Chris

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 03:31 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: I think that this is certainly different. It is

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Russell Bryant
On 12/02/2013 04:49 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: That is a good point. If the forklift is still talking to nova's db then it would be significantly less duplication and i could see doing it in the reverse order. The no-db-stuff should be done before trying to implement cinder support so we

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-12-02 Thread Wang, Shane
Lianhao Lu, Shuangtai Tian and I are also willing to join the team to contribute because we are also changing scheduler, but it seems the team is full. You can put us to the backup list. Thanks. -- Shane -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:robe...@robertcollins.net] Sent:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-29 Thread Khanh-Toan Tran
The first stage is technical - move Nova scheduling code from A to be. What do we achieve - not much - we actually complicate things - there is always churn in Nova and we will have duplicate code bases. In addition to this the only service that can actually make use of they is Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-29 Thread Gary Kotton
On 11/28/13 11:34 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 29 November 2013 09:44, Gary Kotton gkot...@vmware.com wrote: The first stage is technical - move Nova scheduling code from A to be. What do we achieve - not much - we actually complicate things - there is always

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-29 Thread Thierry Carrez
Robert Collins wrote: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler Just looked into it with release management / TC hat on and I have a (possibly minor) concern on the deprecation path/timing. Assuming everything goes well, the separate scheduler will be fast-tracked through

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-28 Thread Gary Kotton
On 11/28/13 12:10 AM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 25 November 2013 21:51, Sylvain Bauza sylvain.ba...@bull.net wrote: As said earlier, I also would love to join the team, triggering a few blueprints or so. By the way, I'm currently reviewing the Scheduler code. Do you

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/28/2013 09:50 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: One option worth thinking about is to introduce a new scheduling driver to nova - this driver will interface with the external scheduler. This will let us define the scheduling API, model etc, without being in the current confines of Nova. This will

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-28 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 28/11/2013 17:04, Chris Friesen a écrit : On 11/28/2013 09:50 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: One option worth thinking about is to introduce a new scheduling driver to nova - this driver will interface with the external scheduler. This will let us define the scheduling API, model etc, without

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On 29 November 2013 04:50, Gary Kotton gkot...@vmware.com wrote: I am not really sure how we can have a client tree without even having discussed the API's and interfaces. From the initial round of emails the intention was to make use of the RPC mechanism to speak with the scheduler. It still

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On 29 November 2013 09:44, Gary Kotton gkot...@vmware.com wrote: The first stage is technical - move Nova scheduling code from A to be. What do we achieve - not much - we actually complicate things - there is always churn in Nova and we will have duplicate code bases. In addition to this the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-27 Thread Robert Collins
On 25 November 2013 21:51, Sylvain Bauza sylvain.ba...@bull.net wrote: As said earlier, I also would love to join the team, triggering a few blueprints or so. By the way, I'm currently reviewing the Scheduler code. Do you began to design the API queries or do you need help for that ?

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-25 Thread Sylvain Bauza
As said earlier, I also would love to join the team, triggering a few blueprints or so. By the way, I'm currently reviewing the Scheduler code. Do you began to design the API queries or do you need help for that ? -Sylvain Le 25/11/2013 08:24, Haefliger, Juerg a écrit : Hi Robert, I see

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
I think everyone agrees we need a unified scheduler. Boris' approach is to move the storage to memcache so the DB is no longer part of the picture, and then move the scheduler out of Nova, rinse and repeat for Cinder etc. My approach is to move the scheduler out of Nova, and then let folk do

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-24 Thread Boris Pavlovic
Robert, Btw, I would like to be a volunteer too=) Best regards, Boris Pavlovic On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.netwrote: On 22 November 2013 23:55, Gary Kotton gkot...@vmware.com wrote: I'm looking for 4-5 folk who have: - modest Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On 25 November 2013 08:08, Boris Pavlovic bpavlo...@mirantis.com wrote: Robert, Btw, I would like to be a volunteer too=) Best regards, Boris Pavlovic Awesome, added to the etherpad! -- Robert Collins rbtcoll...@hp.com Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-24 Thread Haefliger, Juerg
Hi Robert, I see you have enough volunteers. You can put me on the backup list in case somebody drops out or you need additional bodies. Regards ...Juerg From: Boris Pavlovic [mailto:bpavlo...@mirantis.com] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 8:09 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Alex Glikson
Great initiative! I would certainly be interested taking part in this -- although I wouldn't necessary claim to be among people with the know-how to design and implement it well. For sure this is going to be a painful but exciting process. Regards, Alex From: Robert Collins

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Soren Hansen
I'd very much like to take part in the discussions. Depending on the outcome of said discussion, I may or may not want to participate in the implementation :) Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer |

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Mike Spreitzer
I'm still a newbie here, so can not claim my Nova skills are even modest. But I'd like to track this, if nothing more. Thanks, Mike___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Khanh-Toan Tran
Dear all, I'm very interested in this subject as well. Actually there is also a discussion of the possibility of an independent scheduler in the mailisg list: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019518.html Would it be possible to discuss about this subject in the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Yathiraj Udupi (yudupi)
I would definitely like to take part in this discussion and also contribute where I can. I was part of the scheduler sessions in the recent summit along with Debo Dutta, Gary Kotton, and Mike Spreitzer and we had proposed sessions on smart resource placement, and also the instance group API work

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-22 Thread Sylvain Bauza
De : Robert Collins [robe...@robertcollins.net] Date d'envoi : jeudi 21 novembre 2013 21:58 À : OpenStack Development Mailing List Objet : [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-21 Thread Robert Collins
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler I'm looking for 4-5 folk who have: - modest Nova skills - time to follow a fairly mechanical (but careful and detailed work needed) plan to break the status quo around scheduler extraction And of course, discussion galore about the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-21 Thread Boris Pavlovic
Robert, It is nice that community like idea of making one scheduler as a service. But I saw in https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-schedulersome misleading about https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/no-db-scheduler Approach no-db-scheduler is actually base step that

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

2013-11-21 Thread Robert Collins
On 22 November 2013 15:57, Boris Pavlovic bpavlo...@mirantis.com wrote: Robert, It is nice that community like idea of making one scheduler as a service. But I saw in https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler some misleading about