Re: RFC: Extending corosync to high node counts

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On 26/03/15 22:38, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> 
>> On 27 Mar 2015, at 3:19 am, Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 26/03/15 10:36, Christine Caulfield wrote:
>>> On 25/03/15 01:24, Steven Dake wrote:
>>>> I think if you dont care about performance,
> 
> We care about performance in that we don't want the same characteristics that totem currently suffers from.
> Surely an essential part of being able to scale is caring about performance?
> 
>>>> you can have a daemon
>>>> process (second process) connect as a cpg service and maintain an
>>>> overlay network on top of CPG.  Then many other external endpoints could
>>>> connect to this server over TCP.
>>>
>>> That's an interesting idea that I quite like. And it might be nice and
>>> easy to get a proof-of-concept up and running.
>>>
>>> It would probably require a different API to the normal corosync one
>>> (I'm not sure that emulating libcpg etc for a different daemon would be
>>> sensible).
>>>
>>> How does that sound to the Pacemaker team?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I've been thinking about Steven Dake's idea most of today and I really
>> like it. It's clean, doesn't interfere with corosync internals and will
>> be easier to implement and maintain. Also it won't break the on-wire
>> protocol.
>>
>> The one main drawback I see is that the CPG membership will not include
>> the satellite nodes (unless the parent joins the CPG once for each
>> parent, which seems excessive). Looking at the pacemaker code this
>> doesn't seem to be a problem. We can still send node up/down
>> notifications if needed, even if a satellite joins the cluster, it would
>> just show the same list of central nodes each time.
> 
> How would we find out who the list of satellite nodes is?

There will be a separate nodes list

>>
>> I'm less worried about the performance hit for this sort of
>> implementation though it does need to be borne in mind. I'll forward an
>> updated document early next week for perusal if David or Andrew chip in
>> about Pacemaker requirements above.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> Chrissie
>>
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