[ClusterLabs] spread out resources

[Ferenc Wágner]

Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> writes:

> On 03/30/2016 08:37 PM, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
> 
>> I've got a couple of resources (A, B, C, D, ... more than cluster nodes)
>> that I want to spread out to different nodes as much as possible.  They
>> are all the same, there's no distinguished one amongst them.  I tried
>> 
>> <rsc_colocation id="cl-test-spread" score="-50">
>>   <resource_set id="cl-test-spread-set" sequential="false">
>>     <resource_ref id="A"/>
>>     <resource_ref id="B"/>
>>     <resource_ref id="C"/>
>>     <resource_ref id="D"/>
>>   </resource_set>
>>   <resource_set id-ref="cl-test-spread-set"/>
>> </rsc_colocation>
>> 
>> But crm_simulate did not finish with the above in the CIB.
>> What's a good way to get this working?
>
> Per the docs, "A colocated set with sequential=false makes sense only if
> there is another set in the constraint. Otherwise, the constraint has no
> effect." Using sequential=false would allow another set to depend on all
> these resources, without them depending on each other.

That was the very idea behind the above colocation constraint: it
contains the same group twice.  Yeah, it's somewhat contrived, but I had
no other idea with any chance of success.  And this one failed as well.

> I haven't actually tried resource sets with negative scores, so I'm not
> sure what happens there. With sequential=true, I'd guess that each
> resource would avoid the resource listed before it, but not necessarily
> any of the others.

Probably, but that isn't what I'm after.

> By default, pacemaker does spread things out as evenly as possible, so I
> don't think anything special is needed.

Yes, but only on the scale of all resources.  And I've also got a
hundred independent ones, which wash out this global spreading effect if
you consider only a select handful.

> If you want more control over the assignment, you can look into
> placement strategies:

We use balanced placement to account for the different memory
requirements of the various resources globally.  It would be possible to
introduce a new, artifical utilization "dimension" for each resource
group we want to spread independently, but this doesn't sound very
compelling.  For sets of two resources, a simple negative colocation
constraint works very well; it'd be a pity if it wasn't possible to
extend this concept to larger sets.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri