Spread creating routes over time and retry on failures

pkg/controller/route/routecontroller.go

@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/wait"
 )
 
+const (
+	// Maximal number of concurrent CreateRoute API calls.
+	// TODO: This should be per-provider.
+	maxConcurrentRouteCreations int = 200
+	// Maximum number of retries of route creations.
+	maxRetries int = 5
+)
+
 type RouteController struct {
 	routes      cloudprovider.Routes
 	kubeClient  clientset.Interface
@@ -50,6 +58,11 @@ func New(routes cloudprovider.Routes, kubeClient clientset.Interface, clusterNam
 }
 
 func (rc *RouteController) Run(syncPeriod time.Duration) {
+	// TODO: If we do just the full Resync every 5 minutes (default value)
+	// that means that we may wait up to 5 minutes before even starting
+	// creating a route for it. This is bad.
+	// We should have a watch on node and if we observe a new node (with CIDR?)
+	// trigger reconciliation for that node.
 	go wait.NonSlidingUntil(func() {
 		if err := rc.reconcileNodeRoutes(); err != nil {
 			glog.Errorf("Couldn't reconcile node routes: %v", err)
@@ -79,7 +92,10 @@ func (rc *RouteController) reconcile(nodes []api.Node, routes []*cloudprovider.R
 	for _, route := range routes {
 		routeMap[route.TargetInstance] = route
 	}
+
 	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
+	rateLimiter := make(chan struct{}, maxConcurrentRouteCreations)
+
 	for _, node := range nodes {
 		// Skip if the node hasn't been assigned a CIDR yet.
 		if node.Spec.PodCIDR == "" {
@@ -96,14 +112,23 @@ func (rc *RouteController) reconcile(nodes []api.Node, routes []*cloudprovider.R
 			nameHint := string(node.UID)
 			wg.Add(1)
 			glog.Infof("Creating route for node %s %s with hint %s", node.Name, route.DestinationCIDR, nameHint)
-			go func(nodeName string, nameHint string, route *cloudprovider.Route, startTime time.Time) {
-				if err := rc.routes.CreateRoute(rc.clusterName, nameHint, route); err != nil {
+			go func(nodeName string, nameHint string, route *cloudprovider.Route) {
+				defer wg.Done()
+				for i := 0; i < maxRetries; i++ {
+					startTime := time.Now()
+					// Ensure that we don't have more than maxConcurrentRouteCreations
+					// CreateRoute calls in flight.
+					rateLimiter <- struct{}{}
+					err := rc.routes.CreateRoute(rc.clusterName, nameHint, route)
+					<-rateLimiter
+					if err != nil {
 						glog.Errorf("Could not create route %s %s for node %s after %v: %v", nameHint, route.DestinationCIDR, nodeName, time.Now().Sub(startTime), err)
 					} else {
 						glog.Infof("Created route for node %s %s with hint %s after %v", nodeName, route.DestinationCIDR, nameHint, time.Now().Sub(startTime))
+						return
 					}
-				wg.Done()
-			}(node.Name, nameHint, route, time.Now())
+				}
+			}(node.Name, nameHint, route)
 		}
 		nodeCIDRs[node.Name] = node.Spec.PodCIDR
 	}