Fixes bug #1213080 and implements blueprint condutor-workers. Make it easy to launch a bunch of conductor processes on a host. Deploying multiple conductor workers per host avoids serialization on database accesses caused by libmysqlclient.so blocking eventlet's single thread. In an experiment on a 24-core machine, when creating 20 VMs in parallel, maximum creation time was reduced by approx. 10s when using 20 conductor processes vis-a-vis a single conductor process. Profiling showed that all of the savings came from faster calls into nova.db.sqlalchemy.api. Note that there are alternative methods for preventing the eventlet thread from blocking during database calls. However, none of these alternatives performed as well as multiple nova-conductor processes. * Instead of using the native database driver like _mysql.so, you can use a pure-python driver, like pymysql by setting sql_connection=mysql+pymysql://... in the [DEFAULT] section of /etc/nova/nova.conf, which eventlet will monkeypatch to avoid blocking. The problem with this approach is the vastly greater CPU demand of the pure-python driver compared to the native driver. Since the pure-python driver is so much more CPU intensive, the eventlet thread spends most of its time talking to the database, which effectively the problem we had before! * Instead of making database calls from eventlet’s thread, you can submit them to eventlet’s pool of worker threads and wait for the results. Try this by setting dbapi_use_tpool=True in the [DEFAULT] section of /etc/nova/nova.conf. The problem I found with this approach was the overhead of synchronizing with the worker threads. In particular, the time elapsed between the worker thread finishing and the waiting coroutine being resumed was typically several times greater than the duration of the database call itself. Change-Id: I8698997d211d7617ee14a1c6113056a694d70620
OpenStack Nova README
OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of virtualization technologies, including KVM, Xen, LXC, VMware, and more. In addition to its native API, it includes compatibility with the commonly encountered Amazon EC2 and S3 APIs.
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