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Experimental support to reserve a pod's memory request from being utilized by pods in lower QoS tiers.

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-reserved flag 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 their memory.limit_in_bytes set to NodeAllocatable - (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:

  • Guaranteed limit matches root cgroup at is not set by this code
  • Burstable limit is NodeAllocatable - Guaranteed reserve
  • BestEffort limit is NodeAllocatable - Guaranteed reserve - Burstable reserve

The only resource currently supported is memory; however, the code is generic enough that other resources can be added in the future.

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interested in test cases for some of this.

had a number of questions throughout, curious on your thoughts.

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api.ResourceMemory?

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unit test?

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done

// 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]
if !ok {
// programming error if we hit this
return fmt.Errorf("no reserve limit hanlder for resource '%s'", reserveLimit.resource)

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typo: handler

return nil
}

// 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?

}
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)
}

// 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

// 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.
A flow chart would be awesome because it will clearly show all the interactions.
For example, what will happen if Burstable QoS memory limits are lesser that the sum total of all the Burstable pods, which can happen while adding new pods based on your PR.

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.
Review status: 11 of 19 files reviewed at latest revision, 34 unresolved discussions, some commit checks failed.


cmd/kubelet/app/server.go, line 452 at r2 (raw file):

	}

	qosReserveLimits, err := cm.ParseQOSReserveLimits(s.QOSReserveLimits)

nit: I'd refer to this setting as qosOvercommit


cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go, line 255 at r2 (raw file):

	fs.StringVar(&s.EvictionMinimumReclaim, "eviction-minimum-reclaim", s.EvictionMinimumReclaim, "A set of minimum reclaims (e.g. imagefs.available=2Gi) that describes the minimum amount of resource the kubelet will reclaim when performing a pod eviction if that resource is under pressure.")
	fs.BoolVar(&s.ExperimentalKernelMemcgNotification, "experimental-kernel-memcg-notification", s.ExperimentalKernelMemcgNotification, "If enabled, the kubelet will integrate with the kernel memcg notification to determine if memory eviction thresholds are crossed rather than polling.")
	fs.StringVar(&s.QOSReserveLimits, "qos-reserve-limits", s.QOSReserveLimits, "A set of percentages that control how QoS cgroups attempts to reserve requested resource limits for pods (e.g. memory=50%).")

nit: This setting controls the amount of over commitment on a node. So let's name the flag qos-overcommit - A list of percentages per resource that control the level of over commitment of resources on a node


pkg/apis/componentconfig/types.go, line 441 at r2 (raw file):

	// Comma-delimited list of cgroup subsystems and precentages at which to reserve pod resource limits at the QoS-level cgroup. For example, 'memory=50%'.
	// +optional
	QOSReserveLimits string

nit: I think this needs to be a ConfigurationMap


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 269 at r2 (raw file):

// Cgroup subsystems we currently support
var settableSubsystems = []settableSubsystem{

nit: Why this rename?


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 460 at r2 (raw file):

	Name() string
	// GetStats returns the statistics associated with the cgroup
	GetStats(path string, stats *libcontainercgroups.Stats) error

Don't we want the Spec too?


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 468 at r2 (raw file):

}

func getSupportedSubsytems(cgroupPaths map[string]string) (*libcontainercgroups.Stats, error) {

This method is oddly named. It is returning stats.


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go, line 490 at r2 (raw file):

// Get sets the ResourceParameters of the specified cgroup as read from the cgroup fs
func (m *cgroupManagerImpl) Get(name CgroupName) (*ResourceStats, error) {

Maybe name this as GetStats() or simply Stats()?


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go, line 73 at r2 (raw file):

}

func (m *cgroupManagerImpl) Get(cgroupConfig *CgroupConfig) error {

Why is an implementation for cgroupManagerImpl include in *_unsupported file?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 82 at r2 (raw file):

}

func parseQOSReserveLimit(statement string) (*QOSReserveLimit, error) {

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):

func parseQOSReserveLimit(statement string) (*QOSReserveLimit, error) {
	supportedResources := sets.NewString(string(api.ResourceMemory))
	parts := strings.Split(statement, "=")

This pattern of input is common to evictions, node allocatable and this package. Does it make sense to have a single implementation?
Also why not parse as part of kubelet object creation (/cmd/kubelet) instead of here?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager.go, line 100 at r2 (raw file):

		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid number '%s' in QoS reserve limit option", reservePercentStr)
	}
	if reservePercent < 0 || reservePercent > 100 {

I'd alter the semantics for the flags. The user can specify how much they want to overcommit. The default would be 100% and they can explicitly specify non-default values.


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 348 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…

the only issue i see there is that in the case that the Update() fails for setting the memory limit, we want to do extra stuff i.e. find the usage and set the limit at the usage.

+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…

i'm thinking the absence of the error message is implicitly logging success. i am already logging quite a bit every 10s @ V(2)

May be a V(10) log that is useful for debugging?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 446 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, derekwaynecarr (Derek Carr) wrote…

I think we agreed after further analysis to not use soft limit

Soft limits do not help. What is the lowest value we can use to apply limits? Would just 1 KiB work? I see this as an implementation detail to get usage low enough to apply the real limits.


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 465 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, derekwaynecarr (Derek Carr) wrote…

i think its worth expanding what it does and why it needs to be called a little more.

+1


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 175 at r2 (raw file):

// hooking into the pod admission path to update cgroup attributes.
func NewContainerManager(mountUtil mount.Interface, cadvisorInterface cadvisor.Interface, nodeConfig NodeConfig, failSwapOn bool) (ContainerManager, lifecycle.PodAdmitHandler, error) {
	subsystems, err := GetCgroupSubsystems()

nit: Can we split the factory into two methods?

  1. Create a new container manager object - NewContainerManager
  2. Create admission handlers - NewPodAdmissionHandlers(ContainerManager)

pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 354 at r2 (raw file):

	// Attempt to set specified limit
	cgroupConfig := CgroupConfig{
		Name: cgroupManager.CgroupName(string(qosClass)),

This is not a complete name right? For example the QoS cgroup might be /kubepods/Burstable
We need to use the cached QoS cgroup names in Container Manager


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 367 at r2 (raw file):

	// 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)

What if the error was something else? How do we discern between Usage > limit errors vs regular errors like EINTR?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 372 at r2 (raw file):

		return err
	}
	usageLimit := stats.MemoryStats.Usage + memoryUsageMargin

Will we eventually take away the margin?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 448 at r2 (raw file):

// 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

nit: This should be 10MiB.


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 453 at r2 (raw file):

// TODO: this is just made up to prevent instant OOM of pods if the limit is calulcated
// to be too low.
const minimumLimit = 512 * 1024 * 1024 // 512MB

Why do we need this? I can imagine a node running all Guaranteed pods taking away all resources available to Bu and BE pods. This is perfectly normal.
These hidden limits will bite us later.
Our goal is to apply the user specified limit and we do that with minimal impact. I


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 474 at r2 (raw file):

	glog.V(2).Infof("[Container Manager] Updating QoS reserve limits on pod admission")
	if cm.CgroupsPerQOS {
		if err := cm.setQOSReserveLimits(); err != nil {

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):

		if err := cm.setQOSReserveLimits(); err != nil {
			glog.Warningf("[ContainerManager] Failed to update QoS reserve limits during pod admission: %v", err)
			// don't block admission on error here

Why?


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 669 at r2 (raw file):

	// allocatable of the node
	cm.nodeInfo = node
	cm.getPodsFunc = getPods

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):

	if cm.CgroupsPerQOS && len(cm.QOSReserveLimits) != 0 {
		// sync qos level limits every 10 seconds.
		go wait.Until(func() {

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):

var _ ContainerManager = &containerManagerImpl{}

func (cm *containerManagerImpl) Start(_ *v1.Node, _ func() []*v1.Pod) error {

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):

// ResourceConfig holds information about all the supported cgroup resource parameters.
type ResourceStats struct {

Why not reuse the Summary API types?


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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…

nit: I'd refer to this setting as qosOvercommit

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…

nit: This setting controls the amount of over commitment on a node. So let's name the flag qos-overcommit - A list of percentages per resource that control the level of over commitment of resources on a node

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…

nit: Why this rename?

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…

Don't we want the Spec too?

not following. spec?


pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go, line 73 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…

Why is an implementation for cgroupManagerImpl include in *_unsupported file?

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…

This pattern of input is common to evictions, node allocatable and this package. Does it make sense to have a single implementation?
Also why not parse as part of kubelet object creation (/cmd/kubelet) instead of here?

i can look into it


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 446 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…

Soft limits do not help. What is the lowest value we can use to apply limits? Would just 1 KiB work? I see this as an implementation detail to get usage low enough to apply the real limits.

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…

it is a warning so that hopefully conveys that the kubelet can proceed without adverse effects. not sure how to change the words though without convoluting the meaning.

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…

Now how are these limits calculated? Aren't they based on the pods that have already been accepted and are running?

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…

Why?

see previous comment


pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go, line 669 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…

We should look at pods from both StatusManager and PodManager since StatusManager gets pod updates right away which helps with reclaiming resources

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…

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.

in theory


pkg/kubelet/cm/types.go, line 56 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, vishh (Vish Kannan) wrote…

Why not reuse the Summary API types?

i'll check into it


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cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go, line 255 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, sjenning (Seth Jennings) wrote…

again, i'm not sure "over commit" is what we are really doing here (see previous comment)

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.


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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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv380dKdP4

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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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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: 4Gib
-- G2: 4Gib
-- Burstable: 6Gib (10-850%)
-- B1
-- B2
-- BestEffort: 5Gib (6 - 2
50%)

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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Shouldn't this trigger OOMs?

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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