LocalAPI和API的区别

从nova/conductor/__init__.py中可以看到conductor最终定义了四种class
CONF = nova.conf.CONF


def API(*args, **kwargs):
    use_local = kwargs.pop('use_local', False)
    if CONF.conductor.use_local or use_local:
        api = conductor_api.LocalAPI
    else:
        api = conductor_api.API
    return api(*args, **kwargs)


def ComputeTaskAPI(*args, **kwargs):
    use_local = kwargs.pop('use_local', False)
    if CONF.conductor.use_local or use_local:
        api = conductor_api.LocalComputeTaskAPI
    else:
        api = conductor_api.ComputeTaskAPI
    return api(*args, **kwargs)

这四种class可以分成两对，conductor_api.LocalAPI/conductor_api.API 和 conductor_api.LocalComputeTaskAPI/conductor_api.ComputeTaskAPI.
每对中具体用那个API是通过CONF.conductor.use_local 和 use_local是否为true来决定的，目前看use_local默认是false。所以只由CONF.conductor.use_local来控制
这里以conductor_api.LocalAPI/conductor_api.API为例来说明每对中两个API的区别。这两个的定义在nova/conductor/api.py中。只要关注这两个class的__init__ 函数就可以看出区别

class LocalAPI(object):
    """A local version of the conductor API that does database updates
    locally instead of via RPC.
    """

    def __init__(self):
        # TODO(danms): This needs to be something more generic for
        # other/future users of this sort of functionality.
        self._manager = utils.ExceptionHelper(manager.ConductorManager())


class API(LocalAPI):
    """Conductor API that does updates via RPC to the ConductorManager."""

    def __init__(self):
        self._manager = rpcapi.ConductorAPI()
        self.base_rpcapi = baserpc.BaseAPI(topic=CONF.conductor.topic)

这里可以看到在API这个class中定义的manager是rpcapi.ConductorAPI()，而LocalAPI中却没有定义。
原来这两个API的区别就是能否进行rpc通信呀