10.2. Deploying the Real-time Compute Role
Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director provides the template for the ComputeRealTime role, which you can then use to deploy Real-time Compute nodes. However, you must perform additional steps to designate Compute nodes for real-time.
Based on the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/compute-real-time-example.yaml file, create a compute-real-time.yaml environment file that sets the parameters for the
ComputeRealTimerole.cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/compute-real-time-example.yaml /home/stack/templates/compute-real-time.yamlThe file must include values for the following parameters:
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IsolCpusListandNovaVcpuPinSet. List of isolated CPU cores and virtual CPU pins to reserve for real-time workloads. This value depends on the CPU hardware of your Real-time Compute nodes. -
KernelArgs. Arguments to pass to the kernel of the Real-time Compute nodes. For example, you can usedefault_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=<number_of_1G_pages_to_reserve> hugepagesz=2M hugepages=<number_of_2M_pages>to define the memory requirements of guests that have huge pages with multiple sizes. In this example, the default size is 1GB but you can also reserve 2M huge pages.
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Add the
ComputeRealTimerole to your roles data file and regenerate the file. For example:$ openstack overcloud roles generate -o /home/stack/templates/rt_roles_data.yaml Controller Compute ComputeRealTimeThis command generates a
ComputeRealTimerole with contents similar to the following example, and also sets theImageDefaultoption toovercloud-realtime-compute.############################################################### # Role: ComputeRealTime # ############################################################### - name: ComputeRealTime description: | Compute role that is optimized for real-time behaviour. When using this role it is mandatory that an overcloud-realtime-compute image is available and the role specific parameters IsolCpusList and NovaVcpuPinSet are set accordingly to the hardware of the real-time compute nodes. CountDefault: 1 networks: - InternalApi - Tenant - Storage HostnameFormatDefault: '%stackname%-computerealtime-%index%' disable_upgrade_deployment: True ImageDefault: overcloud-realtime-compute RoleParametersDefault: TunedProfileName: "realtime-virtual-host" KernelArgs: "" # these must be set in an environment file or similar IsolCpusList: "" # according to the hardware of real-time nodes NovaVcpuPinSet: "" # ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::Aide - OS::TripleO::Services::AuditD - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts - OS::TripleO::Services::CephClient - OS::TripleO::Services::CephExternal - OS::TripleO::Services::CertmongerUser - OS::TripleO::Services::Collectd - OS::TripleO::Services::ComputeCeilometerAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::ComputeNeutronCorePlugin - OS::TripleO::Services::ComputeNeutronL3Agent - OS::TripleO::Services::ComputeNeutronMetadataAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::ComputeNeutronOvsAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::Docker - OS::TripleO::Services::Fluentd - OS::TripleO::Services::Ipsec - OS::TripleO::Services::Iscsid - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel - OS::TripleO::Services::LoginDefs - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQLClient - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronBgpVpnBagpipe - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronLinuxbridgeAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronVppAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaCompute - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaLibvirt - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaMigrationTarget - OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp - OS::TripleO::Services::ContainersLogrotateCrond - OS::TripleO::Services::OpenDaylightOvs - OS::TripleO::Services::Rhsm - OS::TripleO::Services::RsyslogSidecar - OS::TripleO::Services::Securetty - OS::TripleO::Services::SensuClient - OS::TripleO::Services::SkydiveAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::Snmp - OS::TripleO::Services::Sshd - OS::TripleO::Services::Timezone - OS::TripleO::Services::TripleoFirewall - OS::TripleO::Services::TripleoPackages - OS::TripleO::Services::Vpp - OS::TripleO::Services::OVNController - OS::TripleO::Services::OVNMetadataAgent - OS::TripleO::Services::PtpFor general information about custom roles and about the roles-data.yaml, see the Roles section.
Create the
compute-realtimeflavor to tag nodes that you want to designate for real-time workloads. For example:$ source ~/stackrc $ openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 6144 --disk 40 --vcpus 4 compute-realtime $ openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="compute-realtime" compute-realtimeTag each node that you want to designate for real-time workloads with the
compute-realtimeprofile.$ openstack baremetal node set --property capabilities='profile:compute-realtime,boot_option:local' <NODE UUID>Map the
ComputeRealTimerole to thecompute-realtimeflavor by creating an environment file with the following content:parameter_defaults: OvercloudComputeRealTimeFlavor: compute-realtimeRun the
openstack overcloud deploycommand with the-eoption and specify all the environment files that you created, as well as the new roles file. For example:$ openstack overcloud deploy -r /home/stack/templates/rt~/my_roles_data.yaml -e /home/stack/templates/compute-real-time.yaml <FLAVOR_ENV_FILE>注記If you want to run additional real-time instances on the same Compute node, you can change the priority of the instances in the
realtime_schedule_priorityparemeter in the nova.conf file.