Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary "extra specs" for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 06/09/2014 01:38 PM, Joe Cropper wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil wrote: >>> >>> Hi Joe, >>> >>> >>> >>> Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? >> >> >> Sure! For example, in the PowerKVM world

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary "extra specs" for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/09/2014 01:38 PM, Joe Cropper wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil wrote: Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? Sure! For example, in the PowerKVM world, hosts can be dynamically configured to run in split-core processor mode. This set

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary "extra specs" for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > > Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? Sure! For example, in the PowerKVM world, hosts can be dynamically configured to run in split-core processor mode. This setting can be dynamically changed and it'd

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary "extra specs" for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 06/07/2014 12:30 AM, Joe Cropper wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I was wondering if there was any such mechanism in the compute node >> structure to hold arbitrary key-value pairs, similar to flavors' >> "extra_specs" concept? >> >> It appear

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary "extra specs" for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Day, Phil
Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? It sounds on the face of it that what you’re looking for is pretty similar to what Extensible Resource Tracker sets out to do (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86050 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/71557) Phil From: