Move pub/sub operations out of lock transaction

Bug #1595413 reported by Li Ma
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
DragonFlow
New
Medium
Eyal Leshem

Bug Description

Currently, we implement distributed lock to protect the API session, like

obtain_lock
    do neutron db operations
    do df db operations
    send messages via pub/sub
release_lock

Actually, we need to remove pub/sub out of the lock transaction.
Because if pub/sub fails but db is updated successfully, we do not want to
rollback the db operations. We can issue another message to notify db updates.

As a result, the distributed lock protects the db transactions to make it consistent.
If pub/sub fails, we need to make it stable to avoid the errors, but not rollback the whole db transactions.

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Li Ma (nick-ma-z) wrote :

The discussion is in the thread: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/300877/

Changed in dragonflow:
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Li Ma (nick-ma-z)
Li Ma (nick-ma-z)
summary: - Remove pub/sub operations out of lock transaction
+ Move pub/sub operations out of lock transaction
Eyal Leshem (leyal)
Changed in dragonflow:
assignee: Li Ma (nick-ma-z) → Eyal Leshem (leyal)
Revision history for this message
Eyal Leshem (leyal) wrote :

The bug description was relevant when DF was an L3 plugin .

While DF move to be a mech-driver - all neutron DB operation done between the pre-commit to the post commit method, so Dragonflow can't warp neutron db transactions at all.

The mech-driver can only throw exceptions in the pre-commit stage - and also in the post-commit stage.

Exceptions in the pre-commit stage will lead to cancel the transaction.
Exception in the post-commit-stage (when writing to DF-DB occurs) - will cause to behavior that depends on the plugin implementation.
(for example : in create_network exception in the post-commit will delete the action ,but in update- exception throwing exception in the post-commit will do nothing).

Anyway we can still move out the publish-subscribe mech out of the DF-db-lock ..

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