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[Ed Leafe <ed@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

> We need some sort of supervisor to tell the network to allocate the network before dispatching a message to compute.  I see three possibilities (from easiest to hardest):
> 
> 1. Make the call in /nova/compute/api.py (this code runs on the api host) 
> 2. Make the call in the scheduler (the scheduler then becomes sort of a supervisor to make sure all setup occurs for a vm to launch)
> 3. Create a separate compute supervisor that is responsible for managing the calls to different components
> 
> The easiest seems to be 1, but unfortunately it forces us to wait for the network allocation to finish before returning to the user which i dislike.
> 
> I think ultimately 3 is probably the best solution, but for now I suggest 2 as a middle ground between easy and best.


	Currently, #2 is the approach being designed and developed, fwiw.


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