Move placement specs from nova

Mistakenly the computing team merged two specs in nova that actually
targeting the placement service. Placement has its own specs directory
to store these. So this patch adds the these specs to the placement
repository.

The only change in the two specifications compared the ones approved in
nova-specs repository is the removal of the note from the top that they
are targeting placement service as it is now obvious.

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========================================
Allow provider re-parenting in placement
========================================
https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2008764
This spec proposes to allow re-parenting and un-parenting (or orphaning) RPs
via ``PUT /resource_providers/{uuid}`` API in Placement.
Problem description
===================
Today placement API only allows change the parent of an RP from None to a valid
RP UUID. However there are use case when moving an RP between parents make
sense.
Use Cases
---------
* An existing PGPU RP needs to be moved under the NUMA RP when NUMA is modeled.
* We have a `neutron bug`_ that introduced an unwanted change causing that
SRIOV PF RPs was created under the root RP instead of under the neutron agent
RP. We can fix the broken logic in neutron but we cannot fix the already
wrongly parented RP in the DB via the placement API.
.. _`neutron bug`: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1921150
Proposed change
===============
Re-parenting is rejected today and the code has the following `comment`_ :
TODO(jaypipes): For now, "re-parenting" and "un-parenting" are
not possible. If the provider already had a parent, we don't
allow changing that parent due to various issues, including:
* if the new parent is a descendant of this resource provider, we
introduce the possibility of a loop in the graph, which would
be very bad
* potentially orphaning heretofore-descendants
So, for now, let's just prevent re-parenting...
.. _`comment`: https://github.com/openstack/placement/blob/6f00ba5f685183539d0ebf62a4741f2f6930e051/placement/objects/resource_provider.py#L777
The first reason is moot as the loop check is already needed and implemented
for the case when the parent is updated from None to an RP.
The second reason does not make sense to me. By moving an RP under another RP
all the descendants should be moved as well. Similarly how the None -> UUID
case works today. So I don't see how can we orphan any RP by re-parenting.
I see the following possible cases of move:
* RP moved upwards, downwards, side-wards in the same RP tree
* RP moved to a different tree
* RP moved to top level, becoming a new root RP
From placement perspective every case results in one or more valid RP trees.
Based on the data model if there was allocations against the moved RP those
allocations will still refer to the RP after the move. This means that if a
consumer has allocation against a single RP tree before the move might have
allocation against multiple trees after the RP move. Such consumer is already
supported today.
An RP move might invalidate the original intention of the consumer. If the
consumer used an allocation candidate query to select and allocate resources
then by such query the consumer defined a set of rules (e.g. in_tree,
same_subtree) the allocation needs to fulfill. The rules might not be valid
after an RP is moved. However placement never promised to keep such invariant
as that would require the storage of the rules and correlating allocation
candidate queries and allocations. Moreover such issue can already
be created with the POST /reshape API as well. Therefore keeping any such
invariant is the responsibility of the client. So I propose to start supporting
all form of RP re-parenting in a new placement API microversion.
Alternatives
------------
See the API alternatives below.
Data model impact
-----------------
None
REST API impact
---------------
In a new microversion allow changing the parent_uuid of a resource provider to
None or to any valid RP uuid that does not cause a loop in any of the trees via
the ``PUT /resource_providers/{uuid}`` API.
Protecting against unwanted changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As noted above re-parenting can significantly change the RP model in the
Placement database. So such action needs to be done carefully. While the
Placement API is already admin only by default, the request is raised on the
Xena PTG for extra safety measures against unintentional parent changes.
During the spec discussion every the reviewer expressed the view that such
safety measure is not really needed. So this spec only propose to use the new
microversion and extensive documentation to signal the new behavior.
Still there is the list of alternatives discussed during the review:
* `Do nothing`: While it is considered not safe enough during the PTG, during
the spec review we ended up choosing this as the main solution.
* `A new query parameter`: A new query parameter is proposed for the
``PUT /resource_providers/{uuid}`` API called ``allow_reparenting`` the
default value of the query parameter is ``False`` and the re-parenting cases
defined in this spec is only accepted by Placement if the request contains
the new query parameter with the ``True``. It is considered hacky to add a
query parameter for a PUT request.
* `A new field in the request body`: This new field would have the same meaning
as the proposed query parameter but it would be put into the request body. It
is considered non-RESTful as such field is not persisted or returned as the
result of the PUT request as it does not belong to the representation of the
ResourceProvider entity the PUT request updates.
* `A new Header`: Instead of a new query paramtere use a new HTTP header
``x-openstack-placement-allow-provider-reparenting:True``. As the name shows
this needs a lot more context encoded in it to be specific for the API it
modifies while the query parameter already totally API specific.
* `Use a PATCH request for updating the parent`: While this would make the
parent change more explicit it would also cause great confusion for the
client for multiple reasons:
1) Other fields of the same resource provider entity can be updated via the
PUT request, but not the ``parent_uuid`` field.
2) Changing the ``parent_uuid`` field from None to a valid RP uuid is
supported by the PUT request but to change it from one RP uuid to another
would require a totally different ``PATCH`` request.
* `Use a sub resource`: Signal the explicit re-parenting either in a form of
``PUT /resource-providers/{uuid}/force`` or
``PUT /resource-providers/{uuid}/parent_uuid/{parent}``. While the second
option seems to be acceptable to multiple reviewers, I think it will be
confusing similarly to ``PATCH``. It would create another way to update a
field of an entity while other fields still updated directly on the parent
resource.
Security impact
---------------
None
Notifications impact
--------------------
N/A
Other end user impact
---------------------
None
Performance Impact
------------------
The loop detection and the possible update of all the RPs in the changed
subtree with a new ``root_provider_id`` needs extra processing. However the
re-parenting operation is considered very infrequent. So the overall Placement
performance is not affected.
Other deployer impact
---------------------
None
Developer impact
----------------
None
Upgrade impact
--------------
None
Implementation
==============
Assignee(s)
-----------
Primary assignee:
balazs-gibizer
Feature Liaison
---------------
Feature liaison:
None
Work Items
----------
* Add a new microversion to the Placement API. Implement an extended loop
detection and update ``root_provider_id`` of the subtree if needed.
* Mark the new microversion osc-placement as supported.
Dependencies
============
None
Testing
=======
* Unit testing
* Gabbit API testing
Documentation Impact
====================
* API doc needs to be updated. Warn the user that this is a potentially
dangerous operation.
References
==========
None
History
=======
.. list-table:: Revisions
:header-rows: 1
* - Release Name
- Description
* - Xena
- Introduced

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======================
Support Consumer Types
======================
https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005473
This spec aims at providing support for services to model ``consumer types``
in placement. While placement defines a consumer to be an entity consuming
resources from a provider it does not provide a way to identify similar
"types" of consumers and henceforth allow services to group/query them based
on their types. This spec proposes to associate each consumer to a particular
type defined by the service owning the consumer.
Problem description
===================
In today's placement world each allocation posted by a service is against a
provider for a consumer (ex: for an instance or a migration). However a
service may want to distinguish amongst the allocations made against its
various types of consumers (ex: nova may want to fetch allocations against
instances alone). This is currently not possible in placement and hence the
goal is to make placement aware of "types of consumers" for the services.
Use Cases
---------
* Nova using placement as its `quota calculation system`_: Currently this
approach uses the nova_api database to calculate the quota on the "number of
instances". In order for nova to be able to use placement to count the number
of "instance-consumers", there needs to be a way by which we can
differentiate "instance-consumers" from "migration-consumers".
* Ironic wanting to differentiate between "standalone-consumer" versus
"nova-consumer".
Note that it is not within the scope of placement to model the coordination of
the consumer type collisions that may arise between multiple services during
their definition. Placement will also not be able to identify or verify correct
consumer types (eg, INTANCE versus INSTANCE) from the external service's
perspective.
Proposed change
===============
In order to model consumer types in placement, we will add a new
``consumer_types`` table to the placement database which will have two columns:
#. an ``id`` which will be of type integer.
#. a ``name`` which will be of type varchar (maximum of 255 characters) and
this will have a unique constraint on it. The pattern restrictions for the
name will be similar to placement traits and resource class names, i.e
restricted to only ``^[A-Z0-9_]+$`` with length restrictions being {1, 255}.
A sample look of such a table would be:
+--------+----------+
| id | name |
+========+==========+
| 1 | INSTANCE |
+--------+----------+
| 2 | MIGRATION|
+--------+----------+
A new column called ``consumer_type_id`` would be added to the ``consumers``
table to map the consumer to its type.
The ``POST /allocations`` and ``PUT /allocations/{consumer_uuid}`` REST API's
will gain a new (required) key called ``consumer_type`` which is of type string
in their request body's through which the caller can specify what type of
consumer it is creating or updating the allocations for. If the specified
``consumer_type`` key is not present in the ``consumer_types`` table, a new
entry will be created. Also note that once a consumer type is created, it
lives on forever. If this becomes a problem in the future for the operators
a tool can be provided to clean them up.
In order to maintain parity between the request format of
``PUT /allocations/{consumer_uuid}`` and response format of
``GET /allocations/{consumer_uuid}``, the ``consumer_type`` key will also be
exposed through the response of ``GET /allocations/{consumer_uuid}`` request.
The external services will be able to leverage this ``consumer_type`` key
through the ``GET /usages`` REST API which will have a change in the format
of its request and response. The request will gain a new optional key called
``consumer_type`` which will enable users to query usages based on the consumer
type. The response will group the resource usages by the specified
consumer_type (if consumer_type key is not specified it will return the usages
for all the consumer_types) meaning it will gain a new ``consumer_type`` key.
Per consumer type we will also return a ``consumer_count`` of consumers of that
type.
See the `REST API impact`_ section for more details on how this would be done.
The above REST API changes and the corresponding changes to the ``/reshaper``
REST API will be available from a new microversion.
The existing consumers in placement will have a ``NULL`` value in their
consumer_type_id field, which means we do not know what type these consumers
are and the service to which the consumers belong to needs to update this
information if it wants to avail the ``consumer_types`` feature.
Alternatives
------------
We could create a new REST API to allow users to create consumer types
explicitly but it does not make sense to add a new API for a non-user facing
feature.
Data model impact
-----------------
The placement database will get a new ``consumer_types`` table and the
``consumers`` table will get a new ``consumer_type_id`` column that by default
will be ``NULL``.
REST API impact
---------------
The new ``POST /allocations`` request will look like this::
{
"30328d13-e299-4a93-a102-61e4ccabe474": {
"consumer_generation": 1,
"project_id": "131d4efb-abc0-4872-9b92-8c8b9dc4320f",
"user_id": "131d4efb-abc0-4872-9b92-8c8b9dc4320f",
"consumer_type": "INSTANCE", # This is new
"allocations": {
"e10927c4-8bc9-465d-ac60-d2f79f7e4a00": {
"resources": {
"VCPU": 2,
"MEMORY_MB": 3
},
"generation": 4
}
}
},
"71921e4e-1629-4c5b-bf8d-338d915d2ef3": {
"consumer_generation": 1,
"project_id": "131d4efb-abc0-4872-9b92-8c8b9dc4320f",
"user_id": "131d4efb-abc0-4872-9b92-8c8b9dc4320f",
"consumer_type": "MIGRATION", # This is new
"allocations": {}
}
}
The new ``PUT /allocations/{consumer_uuid}`` request will look like this::
{
"allocations": {
"4e061c03-611e-4caa-bf26-999dcff4284e": {
"resources": {
"DISK_GB": 20
}
},
"89873422-1373-46e5-b467-f0c5e6acf08f": {
"resources": {
"MEMORY_MB": 1024,
"VCPU": 1
}
}
},
"consumer_generation": 1,
"user_id": "66cb2f29-c86d-47c3-8af5-69ae7b778c70",
"project_id": "42a32c07-3eeb-4401-9373-68a8cdca6784",
"consumer_type": "INSTANCE" # This is new
}
Note that ``consumer_type`` is a required key for both these requests at
this microversion.
The new ``GET /usages`` response will look like this for a request of type
``GET /usages?project_id=<project id>&user_id=<user id>`` or
``GET /usages?project_id=<project id>`` where the consumer_type key is not
specified::
{
"usages": {
"INSTANCE": {
"consumer_count": 5,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
"MIGRATION": {
"consumer_count": 2,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
"unknown": {
"consumer_count": 1,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
}
}
The new ``GET /usages`` response will look like this for a request of type
``GET /usages?project_id=<id>&user_id=<id>&consumer_type="INSTANCE"``
or ``GET /usages?project_id=<id>&consumer_type="INSTANCE"`` where the
consumer_type key is specified::
{
"usages": {
"INSTANCE": {
"consumer_count": 5,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
}
}
A special request of the form
``GET /usages?project_id=<project id>&consumer_type=all`` will be allowed to
enable users to be able to query for the total count of all the consumers. The
response for such a request will look like this::
{
"usages": {
"all": {
"consumer_count": 3,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
}
}
A special request of the form
``GET /usages?project_id=<project id>&consumer_type=unknown`` will be allowed
to enable users to be able to query for the total count of the consumers that
have no consumer type assigned. The response for such a request will look like
this::
{
"usages": {
"unknown": {
"consumer_count": 3,
"DISK_GB": 5,
"MEMORY_MB": 512,
"VCPU": 2
}
}
}
Note that ``consumer_type`` is an optional key for the ``GET /usages`` request.
The above REST API changes and the corresponding changes to the ``/reshaper``
REST API will be available from a new microversion.
Security impact
---------------
None.
Notifications impact
--------------------
N/A
Other end user impact
---------------------
The external services using this feature like nova should take the
responsibility of updating the consumer type of existing consumers
from ``NULL`` to the actual type through the
``PUT /allocations/{consumer_uuid}`` REST API.
Performance Impact
------------------
None.
Other deployer impact
---------------------
None.
Developer impact
----------------
None.
Upgrade impact
--------------
The ``placement-manage db sync`` command has to be run by the operators in
order to upgrade the database schema to accommodate the new changes.
Implementation
==============
Assignee(s)
-----------
Primary assignee:
<melwitt>
Other contributors:
<tssurya>
<cdent>
Work Items
----------
* Add the new ``consumer_types`` table and create a new ``consumer_type_id``
column in the ``consumers`` table with a foreign key constraint to the ``id``
column of the ``consumer_types`` table.
* Make the REST API changes in a new microversion for:
* ``POST /allocations``,
* ``PUT /allocations/{consumer_uuid}``,
* ``GET /allocations/{consumer_uuid}``,
* ``GET /usages`` and
* ``/reshaper``
Dependencies
============
None.
Testing
=======
Unit and functional tests to validate the feature will be added.
Documentation Impact
====================
The placement API reference will be updated to reflect the new changes.
References
==========
.. _quota calculation system: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:bp/count-quota-usage-from-placement
History
=======
.. list-table:: Revisions
:header-rows: 1
* - Release Name
- Description
* - Train
- Introduced
* - Xena
- Reproposed