nova/nova/conf/rpc.py
Matt Riedemann 5af632e9ca Use long_rpc_timeout in select_destinations RPC call
Conductor RPC calls the scheduler to get hosts during
server create, which in a multi-create request with a
lot of servers and the default rpc_response_timeout, can
trigger a MessagingTimeout. Due to the old
retry_select_destinations decorator, conductor will retry
the select_destinations RPC call up to max_attempts times,
so thrice by default. This can clobber the scheduler and
placement while the initial scheduler worker is still
trying to process the beefy request and allocate resources
in placement.

This has been recreated in a devstack test patch [1] and
shown to fail with 1000 instances in a single request with
the default rpc_response_timeout of 60 seconds. Changing the
rpc_response_timeout to 300 avoids the MessagingTimeout and
retry loop.

Since Rocky we have the long_rpc_timeout config option which
defaults to 1800 seconds. The RPC client can thus be changed
to heartbeat the scheduler service during the RPC call every
$rpc_response_timeout seconds with a hard timeout of
$long_rpc_timeout. That change is made here.

As a result, the problematic retry_select_destinations
decorator is also no longer necessary and removed here. That
decorator was added in I2b891bf6d0a3d8f45fd98ca54a665ae78eab78b3
and was a hack for scheduler high availability where a
MessagingTimeout was assumed to be a result of the scheduler
service dying so retrying the request was reasonable to hit
another scheduler worker, but is clearly not sufficient
in the large multi-create case, and long_rpc_timeout is a
better fit for that HA type scenario to heartbeat the scheduler
service.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/507918/

Change-Id: I87d89967bbc5fbf59cf44d9a63eb6e9d477ac1f3
Closes-Bug: #1795992
2018-11-20 09:03:53 -05:00

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from oslo_config import cfg
rpc_opts = [
cfg.IntOpt("long_rpc_timeout",
default=1800,
help="""
This option allows setting an alternate timeout value for RPC calls
that have the potential to take a long time. If set, RPC calls to
other services will use this value for the timeout (in seconds)
instead of the global rpc_response_timeout value.
Operations with RPC calls that utilize this value:
* live migration
* scheduling
Related options:
* rpc_response_timeout
"""),
]
ALL_OPTS = rpc_opts
def register_opts(conf):
conf.register_opts(ALL_OPTS)
def list_opts():
return {'DEFAULT': ALL_OPTS}