P.S. I feel like this is something that should be discussed at the design summit. Perhaps there's an existing session this could be discussed in (the unsession, perhaps?)
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Solly Ross" <sr...@redhat.com> > To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com>, "OpenStack Development > Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:51:47 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Heat] Custom Nova Flavor creation > through Heat (pt.2) > > The way I was thinking this would work would be to allow "flavor bundles" if > you will, which would allow 2 or more axes in one flavor (essentially > preserving the existing functionality). Thus, if you needed NUMA, you could > use those. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> > > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > > Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 5:08:32 AM > > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Heat] Custom Nova Flavor creation > > through Heat (pt.2) > > > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:40:43PM -0400, Solly Ross wrote: > > > One thing that I was discussing with @jaypipes and @dansmith over > > > on IRC was the possibility of breaking flavors down into separate > > > components -- i.e have a disk flavor, a CPU flavor, and a RAM flavor. > > > This way, you still get the control of the size of your building blocks > > > (e.g. you could restrict RAM to only 2GB, 4GB, or 16GB), but you avoid > > > exponential flavor explosion by separating out the axes. > > > > Splitting up flavours in that way doesn't really fly, especially > > for CPU & RAM, because the properties you want to configure for > > NUMA policies cross both CPU & RAM so cannot be sensibly separated. > > > > > > 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-dev mailing list > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
