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Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters [message #5380] Fri, 18 August 2006 10:34 Go to next message
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Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:55 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
>>>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:24:03PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>As the first step we want to propose for discussion
>>>>the most complicated parts of resource management:
>>>>kernel memory and virtual memory.
>>>
>>>Do you have any plans to post a CPU controller? Is that tied to UBC
>>>interface as well?
>>
>>Not everything at once :) To tell the truth I think CPU controller
>>is even more complicated than user memory accounting/limiting.
>>
>>No, fair CPU scheduler is not tied to UBC in any regard.
>
>
> Not having the CPU controller on UBC doesn't sound good for the
> infrastructure. IMHO, the infrastructure (for resource management) we
> are going to have should be able to support different resource
> controllers, without each controllers needing to have their own
> infrastructure/interface etc.,
1. nothing prevents fair cpu scheduler from using UBC infrastructure.
but currently we didn't start discussing it.

2. as was discussed with a number of people on summit we agreed that
it maybe more flexible to not merge all resource types into one set.
CPU scheduler is usefull by itself w/o memory management.
the same for disk I/O bandwidht which is controlled in CFQ by
a separate system call.

it is also more logical to have them separate since they
operate in different terms. For example, for CPU it is
shares which are relative units, while for memory it is
absolute units in bytes.

>>As we discussed before, it is valuable to have an ability to limit
>>different resources separately (CPU, disk I/O, memory, etc.).
>
> Having ability to limit/control different resources separately not
> necessarily mean we should have different infrastructure for each.
I'm not advocating to have a different infrastructure.
It is not the topic I raise with this patch set.

>>For example, it can be possible to place some mission critical
>>kernel threads (like kjournald) in a separate contanier.
> I don't understand the comment above (in this context).
If you have a single container controlling all the resources, then
placing kjournald into CPU container would require setting
it's memory limits etc. And kjournald will start to be accounted separately,
while my intention is kjournald to be accounted as the host system.
I only want to _guarentee_ some CPU to it.

Thanks,
Kirill
Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters [message #5428 is a reply to message #5380] Fri, 18 August 2006 18:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chandra Seetharaman is currently offline  Chandra Seetharaman
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:36 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:55 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >
> >>>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:24:03PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>As the first step we want to propose for discussion
> >>>>the most complicated parts of resource management:
> >>>>kernel memory and virtual memory.
> >>>
> >>>Do you have any plans to post a CPU controller? Is that tied to UBC
> >>>interface as well?
> >>
> >>Not everything at once :) To tell the truth I think CPU controller
> >>is even more complicated than user memory accounting/limiting.
> >>
> >>No, fair CPU scheduler is not tied to UBC in any regard.
> >
> >
> > Not having the CPU controller on UBC doesn't sound good for the
> > infrastructure. IMHO, the infrastructure (for resource management) we
> > are going to have should be able to support different resource
> > controllers, without each controllers needing to have their own
> > infrastructure/interface etc.,
> 1. nothing prevents fair cpu scheduler from using UBC infrastructure.

ok.

> but currently we didn't start discussing it.
>
> 2. as was discussed with a number of people on summit we agreed that
> it maybe more flexible to not merge all resource types into one set.
> CPU scheduler is usefull by itself w/o memory management.
> the same for disk I/O bandwidht which is controlled in CFQ by
> a separate system call.
>
> it is also more logical to have them separate since they
> operate in different terms. For example, for CPU it is
> shares which are relative units, while for memory it is
> absolute units in bytes.

We don't have to tie the units with the number. We can leave it to be
sorted out between the user and the controller writer.

Current implementation of resource groups does that.

>
> >>As we discussed before, it is valuable to have an ability to limit
> >>different resources separately (CPU, disk I/O, memory, etc.).
> >
> > Having ability to limit/control different resources separately not
> > necessarily mean we should have different infrastructure for each.
> I'm not advocating to have a different infrastructure.
> It is not the topic I raise with this patch set.
>
> >>For example, it can be possible to place some mission critical
> >>kernel threads (like kjournald) in a separate contanier.
> > I don't understand the comment above (in this context).
> If you have a single container controlling all the resources, then
> placing kjournald into CPU container would require setting
> it's memory limits etc. And kjournald will start to be accounted separately,

Not necessarily. You could just set the CPU shares of the group and
leave the other resources as don't care.

> while my intention is kjournald to be accounted as the host system.
> I only want to _guarentee_ some CPU to it.

I do not see any _guarantee_ support, only barrier(soft limit) and
limit. May be I overlooked. Can you tell me how guarantee is achieved
with UBC.

>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
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Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters [message #5443 is a reply to message #5428] Fri, 18 August 2006 22:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matt Helsley is currently offline  Matt Helsley
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:53 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:36 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:

<snip>

> > 2. as was discussed with a number of people on summit we agreed that
> > it maybe more flexible to not merge all resource types into one set.
> > CPU scheduler is usefull by itself w/o memory management.
> > the same for disk I/O bandwidht which is controlled in CFQ by
> > a separate system call.
> >
> > it is also more logical to have them separate since they
> > operate in different terms. For example, for CPU it is
> > shares which are relative units, while for memory it is
> > absolute units in bytes.
>
> We don't have to tie the units with the number. We can leave it to be
> sorted out between the user and the controller writer.

Yes. The user specifies a ratio of the parent group's resources and the
controller maps that unitless number into appropriate units for the
resource.

> Current implementation of resource groups does that.

IMHO this also better facilitates hotplug addition/removal of resources,
arbitrary levels of groups, and containers.

<snip>

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley
Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters [message #5481 is a reply to message #5428] Mon, 21 August 2006 10:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:36 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
>>Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:55 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:24:03PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>As the first step we want to propose for discussion
>>>>>>the most complicated parts of resource management:
>>>>>>kernel memory and virtual memory.
>>>>>
>>>>>Do you have any plans to post a CPU controller? Is that tied to UBC
>>>>>interface as well?
>>>>
>>>>Not everything at once :) To tell the truth I think CPU controller
>>>>is even more complicated than user memory accounting/limiting.
>>>>
>>>>No, fair CPU scheduler is not tied to UBC in any regard.
>>>
>>>
>>>Not having the CPU controller on UBC doesn't sound good for the
>>>infrastructure. IMHO, the infrastructure (for resource management) we
>>>are going to have should be able to support different resource
>>>controllers, without each controllers needing to have their own
>>>infrastructure/interface etc.,
>>
>>1. nothing prevents fair cpu scheduler from using UBC infrastructure.
>
>
> ok.
>
>
>> but currently we didn't start discussing it.
>>
>>2. as was discussed with a number of people on summit we agreed that
>> it maybe more flexible to not merge all resource types into one set.
>> CPU scheduler is usefull by itself w/o memory management.
>> the same for disk I/O bandwidht which is controlled in CFQ by
>> a separate system call.
>>
>> it is also more logical to have them separate since they
>> operate in different terms. For example, for CPU it is
>> shares which are relative units, while for memory it is
>> absolute units in bytes.
>
>
> We don't have to tie the units with the number. We can leave it to be
> sorted out between the user and the controller writer.
>
> Current implementation of resource groups does that.
>
>
>>>>As we discussed before, it is valuable to have an ability to limit
>>>>different resources separately (CPU, disk I/O, memory, etc.).
>>>
>>>Having ability to limit/control different resources separately not
>>>necessarily mean we should have different infrastructure for each.
>>
>>I'm not advocating to have a different infrastructure.
>>It is not the topic I raise with this patch set.
>>
>>
>>>>For example, it can be possible to place some mission critical
>>>>kernel threads (like kjournald) in a separate contanier.
>>>
>>>I don't understand the comment above (in this context).
>>
>>If you have a single container controlling all the resources, then
>>placing kjournald into CPU container would require setting
>>it's memory limits etc. And kjournald will start to be accounted separately,
>
>
> Not necessarily. You could just set the CPU shares of the group and
> leave the other resources as don't care.
don't care IMHO doesn't mean "accounted and limited as container X".
it sounds like "no limits" for me.

>>while my intention is kjournald to be accounted as the host system.
>>I only want to _guarentee_ some CPU to it.
> I do not see any _guarantee_ support, only barrier(soft limit) and
> limit. May be I overlooked. Can you tell me how guarantee is achieved
> with UBC.
we just provide additional parameters like oomguarpages, where barrier
is a guarantee.

Kirill
Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH] UBC: user resource beancounters [message #5497 is a reply to message #5481] Mon, 21 August 2006 21:04 Go to previous message
Chandra Seetharaman is currently offline  Chandra Seetharaman
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On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 14:55 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
<snip>

> >>If you have a single container controlling all the resources, then
> >>placing kjournald into CPU container would require setting
> >>it's memory limits etc. And kjournald will start to be accounted separately,
> >
> >
> > Not necessarily. You could just set the CPU shares of the group and
> > leave the other resources as don't care.
> don't care IMHO doesn't mean "accounted and limited as container X".
> it sounds like "no limits" for me.

Yes. But, it would provide the same functionality that you want (i.e
limit only CPU and no other resources).

>
> >>while my intention is kjournald to be accounted as the host system.
> >>I only want to _guarentee_ some CPU to it.
> > I do not see any _guarantee_ support, only barrier(soft limit) and
> > limit. May be I overlooked. Can you tell me how guarantee is achieved
> > with UBC.
> we just provide additional parameters like oomguarpages, where barrier
> is a guarantee.

I take it that you are suggesting that the controller can use barrier as
guarantee.

I don't see how it will work. charge_beancounter() returns -ENOMEM even
when the group is over its barrier (when queried with strict ==
UB_BARRIER).

I have to see the oomguarpatches patches for understanding this, I
suppose.
>
> Kirill
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