PowerNap's Future

Registered by Andres Rodriguez

Discuss the future of PowerNap based on the feedback received on conferences where it was presented lately as well as discuss previous defined features.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Dave Walker
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Andres Rodriguez
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
Accepted for precise
Implementation:
Deferred
Milestone target:
milestone icon precise-alpha-2
Completed by
Andres Rodriguez

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Sprints

Whiteboard

Work Items:
[andreserl] Dynamically reload configuration: DONE
[andreserl] Support for MODULES and SERVICES: DONE
Move monitors to asynchronous mode (ProcessMonitor with netlink): POSTPONED
Support for PowerSave profiles: POSTPONED
GTK for selection of PowerSave profiles: POSTPONED
Finish Client/Server approach: POSTPONED
OpenStack Power Scheduler integration: POSTPONED
Messaging with RabbitMQ: POSTPONED
Integration with NUT: POSTPONED

= Agenda ==

 * Feature request/review
 * Client/Server approach to deploy PowerNap datacenter wide.
   * Server ARP monitoring for automatic wakeup.
 * Integration with NUT
 * Server Pivot mode for Orchestra
 * Desktop/Server profiles
 * Integration with other projects, such as OpenStack, Landscape etc.
 * White/Black lists of known good/bad hardware

Previous work items:

[andreserl] Add auto-publishing support for PowerNap clients via avahi: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Add component listener to Powerwaked for auto-registration (Server): POSTPONED
[andreserl] Provide powerwaked to check status of registered machines in a Client/Server fashion: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Provide powernapd with a method to listen messages from powerwaked: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Change polling monitoring system to event based system: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Look into integration of PowerNap/PowerWaked with NUT: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Investigate/add additional pm-powersave tweaks from ARM: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Define sample profiles i.e. For Web Servers, File Servers, Laptops etc: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Perhaps involve someone on the Desktop Team to improve powernap for Laptops: POSTPONED
[andreserl] Add pre-start to upstart job to determine whether machine is virtual or physical (facter virtual): POSTPONED

== Agenda ==

 * Client/Server approach to deploy PowerNap datacenter wide.
   * Server ARP monitoring for automatic wakeup.
   * Server Pivot mode for Orchestra
   * OpenStack + Orchestra testing/integration
     * might be implemented differently than UEC/Eucalyptus/PowerNap, but we need something similar at least
 * Integration with NUT
  * powerwake mode to talk to nut to power systems on
  * powernap "remote" mode to talk to nut to power remote systems down
 * Desktop/Server profiles
  * currently have one set of profiles used by all systems
  *
 * New tricks to reduce power consumption
 * White/Black lists of known good/bad hardware
 * Feature request/review

== Outcome ==

OpenStack Power Scheduler Integration.
 * RabbitMQ?
     * Some random people seem to consider moving away from rabbitMQ for another AMQP implementation (to be confirmed with actual working code)
     http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2011-10/msg00522.html

Gnome power (or UPower?) daemon integration/interaction
 * add a configuration option to enable GPD to use the powernap state to determine machine's activity or non-activity
 * test modern 3.2 kernel (against 2.6.38), verify kernel doing the right thing on idle CPUs, and hopefully purge PowerNap's cpu offline script
 * upstart/dbus/inotify integration as asynchronous monitoring systems
   * Move one monitor to asynchronous mode (prove it can be done, show how to do it)
     * ProcessMonitor - netlink for process creation/deletion

(?)

Work Items

Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.