[Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version

[Omer Frenkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:15:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 11:12:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:59:53 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> > > > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:36:46 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> > > > > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > > > > Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 7:18:59 PM
> > > > > Subject: [Engine-devel] new engine watchdog version
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I uploaded a new version of the watchdog patch. This patch is
> > > > > still
> > > > > a
> > > > > work in progress, it adds audit log alerts to the
> > > > > functionality.
> > > > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/12419/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Feature page:
> > > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Watchdog_engine_support
> > > > > 
> > > > > Laszlo
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> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > i looked at the patch and there is something i don't
> > > > understand,
> > > > i see you are treating the watchdog as a vm device, which is
> > > > great,
> > > > so why do we need to save the device details in vm_static table
> > > > in
> > > > addition to the vm_devices?
> > > > i think its even not used at all (only setting the device in
> > > > command
> > > > which could be parameters, no need to persist)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Omer,
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I hoped someone will come up with that question :) The
> > > answer
> > > is that I followed the established design patterns in the
> > > backend.
> > > See smartcard and memory balloon, probably others. The motivation
> > > for this pattern could be that in case of these devices, you must
> > > have the settings in the VM data, not separately in the devices.
> > > Also when vdsbroker builds the devices list, it just asks the
> > > device
> > > list. The redundancy is already there, we can make it differently
> > > in
> > > this case but that will present the readers with a puzzle: why
> > > this
> > > pattern in feature X, why that pattern in feature Y...
> > > So I would recommend to leave it like this for now and schedule a
> > > cleanup on device handling. Devices deserve a cleanup.
> > > 
> > > Thx,
> > > Laszlo
> > > 
> > 
> > i agree there is a mess that requires clean-up,
> > but i don't think its a good thing to keep piling up the mess,
> > i don't like it that smartcard is there, but some other devices are
> > ok (balloon and payload)
> > so we already have 2 'patterns', lets go with the right one..
> > and answering also @Doron's question - yes the device data should
> > be
> > kept with the device
> > 
> 
> Ok, I may have missed the other pattern, could you explain which one
> do you mean?
> Balloon does not very different from smartcard, it is there in VM.
> 

the difference is that balloon is not in vm_static table at all (the only place in the db for it is in vm_devices)
and smartcard has 'is_smartcard_enabled' field in vm_static in addition to vm_devices (which is not needed..)

the way i think we (currently) need to work with devices is:
add a parameter for it in the parameters, and use it in add/update (/run-once?) (as done for balloon)
i don't know what is the use of the field balloonEnabled in VM, i don't see any use of it..

going forward we need to think if we want to expose devices to frontend,
so then we can drop the encapsulation and just use list of devices in VmBase or something like that