kubelet: enable qos-level memory limits#41149
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interested in test cases for some of this.
had a number of questions throughout, curious on your thoughts.
| // Takes the absolute name of the specified containers. | ||
| // Empty container name disables use of the specified container. | ||
| func NewContainerManager(mountUtil mount.Interface, cadvisorInterface cadvisor.Interface, nodeConfig NodeConfig, failSwapOn bool) (ContainerManager, error) { | ||
| func NewContainerManager(mountUtil mount.Interface, cadvisorInterface cadvisor.Interface, nodeConfig NodeConfig, failSwapOn bool) (ContainerManager, lifecycle.PodAdmitHandler, error) { |
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nit: improve the godoc a bit here... and make note that the second return argument is responsible for verifying qos resource requirements are satisfiable upon admission.
| handler, ok := resourceQOSReserveLimitHandlers[reserveLimit.resource] | ||
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| // programming error if we hit this | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("no reserve limit hanlder for resource '%s'", reserveLimit.resource) |
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| // Admit always returns Admit: true but allows the ConatinerManager to hook into the admit path |
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i think its worth expanding what it does and why it needs to be called a little more.
| // Unreclaimable memory usage already exceeds the desired limit. | ||
| // Attempt to set the limit near the current usage to put pressure | ||
| // on the cgroup and prevent further growth. | ||
| glog.Warningf("[Container Manager] %s QoS memory usage is already above desired limit", qosClass) |
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i also worry this message will be scary for a normal situation.
maybe just note that the kubelet will attempt to reach the desired state in stages and not make this a warning.
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ok. i think my comments are that note, yes?
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| usageLimit := stats.MemoryStats.Usage + memoryUsageMargin | ||
| cgroupConfig.ResourceParameters.Memory = &usageLimit | ||
| glog.V(2).Infof("[Container Manager] Setting %s QoS memory limit to %d bytes", qosClass, usageLimit) |
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i find bytes much harder to read in a log than quantity object.
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i thought about using Quantity but math is a mess
| return cgroupManager.Update(&cgroupConfig) | ||
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| // syncQOSMemoryLimts sums the memory limits of all pods in a QOS class, |
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this is not the function name anymore...
| // If usage is already above the limit, set the limit to the usage plus this margin | ||
| // This increases the likelyhood that the limit can be set successfully and gives the | ||
| // cgroup a little forgiveness so it doesn't OOM kill in response to a little growth. | ||
| const memoryUsageMargin = 10 * 1024 * 1024 // 10MB |
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should we maybe do a max(10MB, 15% current usage)?
typing this, i am also wondering if we should evaluate soft limits.
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do you mean set the reserve limits as soft_limit_in_bytes rather than limit_in_bytes?
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if you do mean this, i think that is a good (i.e. safer) idea. soft limit typically don't get the OOM killer involved.
i think it would be a simple change, setting MemoryReservation rather than Memory in the libcontainerconfigs.Resources
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I think we agreed after further analysis to not use soft limit
| const memoryUsageMargin = 10 * 1024 * 1024 // 10MB | ||
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| // The minumum limit to which a QoS level cgroup can be set | ||
| const minimumLimit = 512 * 1024 * 1024 // 512MB |
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how did you arrive at this?
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it's just made up to prevent instant OOM if the upper tiers try to reserve all the memory
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@vishh can I get a review? It least a high level approval for the approach so I don't spent a lot of time refactoring code with which you have a fundamental objection. Thanks! |
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Can you post a design doc or a flow chart that describes the entire workflow of this PR? I think I get most of it, but a high level design would help with the review. It will also be useful as a reference in the future. Just curious, is this feature required for v1.6? It is not included in the feature list and I want to ensure that we give this PR the time it deserves while reviewing. Reviewed 9 of 16 files at r1, 7 of 9 files at r2. cmd/kubelet/app/server.go, line 452 at r2 (raw file):
nit: I'd refer to this setting as cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go, line 255 at r2 (raw file):
nit: This setting controls the amount of over commitment on a node. So let's name the flag pkg/apis/componentconfig/types.go, line 441 at r2 (raw file):
nit: I think this needs to be a pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 269 at r2 (raw file):
nit: Why this rename? pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 460 at r2 (raw file):
Don't we want the Spec too? pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 468 at r2 (raw file):
This method is oddly named. It is returning stats. pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 490 at r2 (raw file):
Maybe name this as pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go, line 73 at r2 (raw file):
Why is an implementation for pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 82 at r2 (raw file):
nit: This file is growing too big. Let's move QoS features to a separate file pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 84 at r2 (raw file):
This pattern of input is common to evictions, node allocatable and this package. Does it make sense to have a single implementation? pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 100 at r2 (raw file):
I'd alter the semantics for the flags. The user can specify how much they want to overcommit. The default would be pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 348 at r1 (raw file): Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…
+1 for a per-controller framework of Update methods. I like the way libcontainer is structured for example. A common interface implemented by multiple controllers. Can we aim for that here with Container Manager? pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 357 at r1 (raw file): Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…
May be a pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 446 at r1 (raw file): Previously, derekwaynecarr (Derek Carr) wrote…
Soft limits do not help. What is the lowest value we can use to apply limits? Would just pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 465 at r1 (raw file): Previously, derekwaynecarr (Derek Carr) wrote…
+1 pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 175 at r2 (raw file):
nit: Can we split the factory into two methods?
pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 354 at r2 (raw file):
This is not a complete name right? For example the QoS cgroup might be pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 367 at r2 (raw file):
What if the error was something else? How do we discern between pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 372 at r2 (raw file):
Will we eventually take away the margin? pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 448 at r2 (raw file):
nit: This should be pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 453 at r2 (raw file):
Why do we need this? I can imagine a node running all Guaranteed pods taking away all resources available to pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 474 at r2 (raw file):
Now how are these limits calculated? Aren't they based on the pods that have already been accepted and are running? pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 476 at r2 (raw file):
Why? pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 669 at r2 (raw file):
We should look at pods from both StatusManager and PodManager since StatusManager gets pod updates right away which helps with reclaiming resources pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 698 at r2 (raw file):
Why do we need this thread? We can make deterministic updates based on pod additions and deletions, and run a complete update upon startup/recovery. pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_windows.go, line 35 at r2 (raw file):
Would it make sense to take an interface instead? I suspect over time we will need more and more info from Kubelet main pkg/kubelet/cm/types.go, line 56 at r2 (raw file):
Why not reuse the Summary API types? Comments from Reviewable |
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Review status: 9 of 19 files reviewed at latest revision, 34 unresolved discussions. cmd/kubelet/app/server.go, line 452 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
the reason i went with "reserve" was that over commit didn't make sense to me here. this is a value 0% to 100% where 0% is "don't reserve anything /maximum over commit" and 100% is "reserve all limits/no over commit". so to say --qos-overcommit=memory=0% sounds like you are disabling over commit, when you are actually fully enabling it. additionally, in my mind, an over commit percentage (or ratio) can over from 0 to infinity i.e. "i want to over commit by 4x or 400%" which doesn't make sense in this application. what the value really is is "what percentage of the pod limits would you like to reserve?". cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go, line 255 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
again, i'm not sure "over commit" is what we are really doing here (see previous comment) pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 269 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
to make the distinction between a settable subsystem and a gettable one pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 460 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
not following. spec? pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go, line 73 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
this was a bug, fixed it last night pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 84 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
i can look into it pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 446 at r1 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
what will happen here is that, as a result of trying to get the limit below reclaimable usage, the kernel will have reclaimed as much memory as it can. so the usage drops to its minimum value. soon there after the application running in the cgroup will likely fault on its reclaimed pages and bring them back into memory. i haven't tried just setting the limit = usage with no buffer. i can try and see what happens. it should be noted that a side effect of this whole feature could be additional disk thrashing for applications in Burstable and BE QoS level, as the memory available to them as page cache can be very restricted. that is really a problem of pod sizing, but can effect performance for all pods on the node. pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 470 at r1 (raw file): Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…
i think i'll just drop this to a V(2) from Warning pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 474 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
Yes, this is not a real admission handler as it always returns true. It is only updating the cgroup limit in an async way on pod admission. pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 476 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
see previous comment pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 669 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
hmm, i'll have to figure that out then pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 698 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
in theory pkg/kubelet/cm/types.go, line 56 at r2 (raw file): Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…
i'll check into it Comments from Reviewable |
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cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go, line 255 at r2 (raw file): Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…
i prefer the reserve syntax to the overcommit syntax. in theory, this setting only applies to incompressible resources where we are attempting to meet the request value, hence it is a reservation. i think overcommit syntax implies to me that we will start letting nodes report 10 cpus when it only has 1. Comments from Reviewable |
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@vishh thanks for the review! The cumulative result of the feedback thus far results in a significant refactoring. I am doing that now. wrt an overview/flowchart, I am planning to create one. In the meantime, I recorded a demo video: |
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| // Create Cgroups for the pod and apply resource parameters | ||
| // to them if cgroup-per-qos flag is enabled. | ||
| pcm := kl.containerManager.NewPodContainerManager() | ||
| if err := kl.containerManager.UpdateQOSReserves(); err != nil { |
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move this to right before pcm.EnsureExists in the if block below.
| // A set of ResourceName=Percentage (e.g. memory=50%) pairs that describe | ||
| // how pod resource requests are reserved at the QoS level. | ||
| // Currently only memory is supported. [default=none]" | ||
| QOSReserveRequests map[string]string `json:"qosReserveRequests"` |
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same here, and json should be experimentalQOSReserved
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@derekwaynecarr updated GKE e2e is currently broken on https://k8s-gubernator.appspot.com/builds/kubernetes-jenkins/pr-logs/directory/pull-kubernetes-e2e-gke |
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@k8s-bot verify test this |
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@k8s-bot gci gke e2e test this |
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#41928 broke the cross build |
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@k8s-bot kops aws e2e test this |
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I quickly reviewed this pr, here are my concerns / questions (not necessarily blocking the pr though :-)) With this pr being introduced, we capped the burstable and best effort's memory usage, and leave the space to guaranteed pods to grow their usage. But the cap value driven from --experimental-qos-reserved is purely based on the guaranteed pods' request, not usage. I feel this makes --experimental-qos-reserved is much harder to configure for the production since we don't know the workload's resource usage growth trend. For example, given a node with node allocatable 10G and --experimental-qos-reserved=memory=50%, there are 2 guaranteed pods, and each asked for 4G. There are two burstable and each request 1G. Now we have pseudo-cgroup layout like the below: / 10Gib G1 and G2 each is using 2Gib while the total usage of B1 and B2 is 5Gib, there is no issue. All the sudden, both G1 and G2 want to allocate more memory. Shouldn't this trigger OOMs? Of course since we already introduced the userspace eviction manager, hopefully it take action before sys OOM. But I didn't see the eviction manager changes reflecting this new policy? I guess this should be ok for now since there is no resource estimation logic in Kubelet yet, and the scheduler doesn't respect the resource usage to over commit the node anyway. |
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/lgtm /approve since it still move forward to our long term goal. Thanks! :-) |
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Yes, just as it did before the PR. The PR just provides an alternative means to prevent getting in that situation; enforcing limits at the QoS cgroup rather than relying on eviction ordering and reaction time at the root/kubepods cgroup when the node is already in/near trouble. IMHO, to get the real benefit of this PR, the only percentage that should be used is 100%. In fact, my first version of this PR had this flag as a boolean, either reserving 100% of the requests or not. Partial percentages are hard to model properly. 100% is easy. |
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Enables the QoS-level memory cgroup limits described in kubernetes/community#314
Note: QoS level cgroups have to be enabled for any of this to take effect.
Adds a new
--experimental-qos-reservedflag that can be used to set the percentage of a resource to be reserved at the QoS level for pod resource requests.For example,
--experimental-qos-reserved="memory=50%, means that if a Guaranteed pod sets a memory request of 2Gi, the Burstable and BestEffort QoS memory cgroups will have theirmemory.limit_in_bytesset toNodeAllocatable - (2Gi*50%)to reserve 50% of the guaranteed pod's request from being used by the lower QoS tiers.If a Burstable pod sets a request, its reserve will be deducted from the BestEffort memory limit.
The result is that:
NodeAllocatable - Guaranteed reserveNodeAllocatable - Guaranteed reserve - Burstable reserveThe only resource currently supported is
memory; however, the code is generic enough that other resources can be added in the future.@derekwaynecarr @vishh