Comment 2 for bug 1999586

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/config/+/867567
Committed: https://opendev.org/starlingx/config/commit/8b23b33d2ca127fcd43fef019ccdbcc500ff0d08
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 8b23b33d2ca127fcd43fef019ccdbcc500ff0d08
Author: Al Bailey <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 13 20:01:23 2022 +0000

    Reduce the number of partition DB updates

    When the partition code receives a partition structure
    from sysinv-agent, the fields are strings.
    The database fields are integers, so the comparison
    always considers the values to be mis-matched and attempts
    to update the database.

    This can cause stale 'size' values from the agent query
    to overwrite the DB during a partition resize operation.

    Test Plan:
      PASS: create and update several partitions
      PASS: verify that the 'PART update' log is not created
    once for every partition when doing a partition update.

    Closes-Bug: #1999586
    Signed-off-by: Al Bailey <email address hidden>
    Change-Id: I3113e60a09951aa0efc5a6e549b1614976f75f35