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This adds a limit query parameter to GET /allocation_candidates?limit=5&resource=VCPU:1 A 'limit' filter is added to the AllocationCandidates. If set, after the database query has been run to create the allocation requests and provider summaries, a slice or sample of the allocation requests is taken to limit the results. The summaries are then filtered to only include those in the allocation requests. This method avoids needing to make changes to the generated SQL, the creation of which is fairly complex, or the database tables. The amount of data queried is still high in the extreme case, but the amount of data sent over the wire (as JSON) is shrunk. This is a trade-off that was discussed in the spec and the discussion surrounding its review. If it turns out that memory use server-side is an issue we can investigate changing the SQL. A configuration setting, [placement]/randomize_allocation_candidates, is added to allow deployers to declare whether they want the results to be returned in whatever order the database chooses or a random order. The default is "False" which is expected to preserve existing behavior and impose a packing placement strategy. When the config setting is combined with the limit parameter, if "True" the limited results are a random sampling from the full results. If "False", it is a slice from the front. This is done as a new microversion, 1.16, with updates to docs, a reno and adjustments to the api history doc. Change-Id: I5f3d4f49c34fd3cd6b9d2e12b3c3c4cdcb409bec Implements: bp allocation-candidates-limit
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530 B
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12 lines
530 B
YAML
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Add support, in new placement microversion 1.16, for a ``limit`` query
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parameter when making a ``GET /allocation_candidates`` request. The
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parameter accepts an integer value, `N`, which limits the number of
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candidates returned. A new configuration item
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``[placement]/randomize_allocation_candidates``, defaulting to `False`,
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controls how the limited results are chosen. If `True`, a random sampling
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of the entire result set is taken, otherwise the first N results are
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returned.
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