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[Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think _we_ should stand behind OpenStack.

That said, I understand why it's a tough call.  Hopefully most problems can
be fixed with a simple-ish SQL script post-release.


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:06 AM, David Kranz <david.kranz@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Well, there are diablo-stable packages. If Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat,  etc.
> keep hearing from customers that Essex in an LTS release is not adequate,
> there will be essex-stable packages too. They are the ones who have to
> stand behind the product. It is perfectly understandable that there is
> resistance to putting anything other than fixes for critical bugs in a week
> or so from release.  I am not saying this is great, but if release dates
> are fixed and features, performance the things that are allowed to vary,
> then what else is there to do? Just my opinion.
>
>  -David
>
>
> On 3/29/2012 1:55 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:
>
> I'm not saying it can't be rationalized; I'm saying it is frustrating to
> me.
>
>  My understanding is that Essex is going to be baked into both Ubuntu &
> Debian for the long term - 5 years plus.   That's a long time to have to
> keep explaining why X is broken; I'd rather just fix X.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM, David Kranz <david.kranz@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>   On 3/29/2012 12:46 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:
>>
>>  Is there a good way to map back where in the code these calls are
>>> coming from?
>>
>>
>>  There's not a great way currently.  I'm trying to get a patch in for
>> Essex which will let deployments easily turn on SQL debugging (though this
>> is proving contentious); it will have a configurable log level to allow for
>> future improvements, and one of the things I'd like to do is add later is
>> something like a stack trace on 'problematic' SQL (large row count, long
>> query time).  But that'll be in Folsom, or in G if we don't get logging
>> into Essex.
>>
>>  In the meantime, it's probably not too hard to follow the code and
>> infer where the calls are coming from.  In the full log, there's a bit more
>> context, and I've probably snipped some of that out; in this case the
>> relevant code is get_metadata in the compute API service and
>> get_instance_nw_info in the network service.
>>
>>
>>>  Regardless, large table scans should be eliminated, especially if the
>>> table is mostly read, as the hit on an extra index on insert will be
>>> completely offset by the speedups on select.
>>
>>
>>  Agreed - some of these problems are very clear-cut!
>>
>>  It does frustrate me that we've done so much programming work, but then
>> not do the simple stuff at the end to make things work well.  It feels a
>> bit like shipping we're shipping C code which we've compiled with -O0
>> instead of -O3.
>>
>>
>>  Well, in a project with the style of fixed-date release (short-duration
>> train-model) that openstack has, I think we have to accept that there will
>> never be time to do anything except fight critical bugs "at the end". At
>> least not until the project code is much more mature. In projects I have
>> managed we always allocated time at the *beginning* of a release cycle for
>> fixing some backlogged bugs and performance work. There is less pressure
>> and the code is not yet churning. It is also important to have performance
>> benchmark tests to make sure new features do not introduce performance
>> regressions.
>>
>>  -David
>>
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