[Bug 39412] New: Add failover and load balancing support

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39412

            Bug ID: 39412
           Summary: Add failover and load balancing support
           Product: Wine-Testbot
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: fgouget at codeweavers.com
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 52530
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=52530
Proposed schema update to allow for failover

We currently have 4 VM hosts and it's easy to duplicate a given VM so it's
present on multiple hosts.

So we could put a VM such as win7u on both vm1 and vm2. But if vm1 goes offline
for whatever reason, the administrator would still have to manually change the
WineTestBot configuration so it knows to use the win7u copy on vm2.

Furthermore if a task is scheduled to run on win7u but vm1 is busy running a
task on another VM it would be nice to automatically run that task on vm2's
win7u copy instead. This would lessen the need to carefully figure out which
VMs can be put on the same host based on whether they are 64 bit or not,
whether they are a base or winetest VM, etc. (later how many configurations
they have, see bug 31784)


But we cannot add entries for both copies of win7u because:
1. Both entries would show up in the user interface.
2. Wine patches would be scheduled to run on both copies which is not what we
want.
3. Tasks scheduled to run on the first copy would still not be switched to the
second copy.
4. The TestBot may start both copies at the same time which would be wrong from
a licensing point of view and cause conflicts due to both having the same IP
address (unless one of the copies is manually modified to have a different IP
address).

What is really needed is a change in the database schema so we can define
multiple interchangeable 'VM instances' of a given VM.
The attached schema adds a VMInstances table to deal with this:
* A task would initially be connected to a VM (we can ignore the VMConfig vs.
VM distinction here).
* When scheduling the task the TestBot would iterate over the corresponding
VM's VMInstances, identify the ones where the VMSnapshot field is set as the
active instances and count them. (Note: the instance's ChildPid field is only
set during reverts and the (JobID, StepNo, TaskNo) triplet is only set after
revert when the task is actually running. So neither identify active VMs).
* Then if the count of active instances is lower than the VM's MaxActive field
it could revert that VM instance.
* The VM's MaxActive is what allows us to not exceed our number of licenses. It
also allow us to have multiple instances active in case we have multiple
licenses: for the Linux build machine for instance (in that cae each copy would
need a different IP address).
* Optionally a user could request that a task be run on a specific VMInstance
by setting the Task's VMNo field.

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