On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:45:43PM +0000, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote: > Hi All, > > The following question relates to this change: > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/125091/ > > This change adds a field to the ComputeNode object called > "supported_instances". It also adds an object called "SupportedInstance" that > has fields called > "arch", "hvtype" and "vm_mode". > > All these names already exist in the nova code, but when put together in > these objects they seem a little odd (i.e. supported_instances may be a > little misleading, hvtype has no hyphen but vm_mode does). This is where > they come from: > > - supported_instances is the name of the corresponding field of > the compute_nodes database table. The supported_instances field actually > contains a the list of architecture, hypervisor type and vm_mode > combinations supported by the compute node. It is also the existing > field name used in a dict provided by the virt drivers to report this > list to nova. > > > - arch, hvtype and vm_mode are the names used by variables > throughout nova that refer to the relevant data obtained contained > in supported_instances. > > The question is: are these the names we actually want to use?
I'd like to just kill the underscore in 'vm_mode' as I don't think it adds any real value. > Let me know opinions and I will fix the patch accordingly. I don't think we want to block your patch on this item. We can just do a cleanup afterwards, rather than mixing it in with your patch. 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
