baremetal deploy helper wastes nova-compute host pagecache

Bug #1114633 reported by Robert Collins
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OpenStack Compute (nova)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

The baremetal deploy helper dd's images to the target machine. This is done without oflag=direct, which means that for a 1GB image, we use up ~1GB of local pagecache. This is wasteful, as we won't read any substantial amount of the image back.

Tags: baremetal
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to nova (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/23480

Changed in nova:
assignee: nobody → Devananda van der Veen (devananda)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to nova (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/23480
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/de4b35a4ca3a98c084ca4dc4812d1f5d7e1edddb
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit de4b35a4ca3a98c084ca4dc4812d1f5d7e1edddb
Author: Devananda van der Veen <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 4 15:01:03 2013 -0800

    Baremetal deploy helper sets ODIRECT.

    Baremetal deploy helper should set oflag=direct when dd'ing images onto
    iSCSI targets, so that it doesn't waste the local page cache.

    Fixes bug 1114633.

    Change-Id: Ia674afb34aff7b842cfcd520ecb7b75dc21944fa

Changed in nova:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
milestone: none → grizzly-rc1
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
milestone: grizzly-rc1 → 2013.1
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