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Monitor /kubepods cgroup for allocatable metrics #55638

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dashpole opened this issue Nov 13, 2017 · 1 comment · Fixed by #57802
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Monitor /kubepods cgroup for allocatable metrics #55638

dashpole opened this issue Nov 13, 2017 · 1 comment · Fixed by #57802
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Currently, for memory allocatable evictions, we sum the memory usage of pods in order to calculate allocatable memory usage.
We can get more accurate metrics by monitoring the kubepods cgroup, which contains all pods and their processes. This has a few benefits:

  1. It makes calculation of allocatable usage more accurate.
  2. It makes the eviction manager simpler
  3. After on-demand metrics are implemented in cAdvisor On-Demand container metrics google/cadvisor#1779, we can also collect metrics from this cgroup on-demand, which will make memory allocatable evictions more responsive, and able to prevent OOMs on the /kubepods cgroup more effectively.

cc @kubernetes/sig-node-feature-requests

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Monitor the /kubepods cgroup for allocatable metrics

**What this PR does / why we need it**:
The current implementation of allocatable memory evictions sums the usage of pods in order to compute the total usage by user processes.
This PR changes this to instead monitor the `/kubepods` cgroup, which contains all pods, and use this value directly.  This is more accurate than summing pod usage, as it is measured at a single point in time.
This also collects metrics from this cgroup on-demand.
This PR is a precursor to memcg notifications on the `/kubepods` cgroup.
This removes the dependency the eviction manager has on the container manager, and adds a dependency for the summary collector on the container manager (to get Cgroup Root)
This also changes the way that the allocatable memory eviction signal and threshold are added to make them in-line with the memory eviction signal to address #53902

**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**:
Fixes #55638
Fixes #53902

**Special notes for your reviewer**:
I have tested this, and can confirm that it works when CgroupsPerQos is set to false.  In this case, it returns node metrics, as it is monitoring the `/` cgroup, rather than the `/kubepods` cgroup (which doesn't exist).

**Release note**:
```release-note
Expose total usage of pods through the "pods" SystemContainer in the Kubelet Summary API
```
cc @sjenning @derekwaynecarr @vishh @kubernetes/sig-node-pr-reviews
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