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Updaing QoS policy to be at the pod level #14943

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Existing pods might be more susceptible to OOM Kills on the node due to this PR! 
To protect pods from being OOM killed on the node, set `limits` for all resources across all containers in a pod.

Quality of Service will be derived from an entire Pod Spec, instead of being derived from resource specifications of individual resources per-container.
A Pod is `Guaranteed` iff all its containers have limits == requests for all the first-class resources (cpu, memory as of now).
A Pod is `BestEffort` iff requests & limits are not specified for any resource across all containers.
A Pod is `Burstable` otherwise. 

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I need to think on this some, as I thought we were going to ignore CPU
since it was compressible and ceiling enforced if flag was enabled. It had
made sense to me to do only a cgroup per memory qos on the node.

For the end-user, this means my OOMScoreAdjust value is based on the lowest
level of compute resource QoS, but from a scheduling perspective, I would
still be BestEffort/Burstable/Guaranteed on a per compute resource basis,
correct?

Are there ramifications other than OOMScoreAdjust that I am missing?

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For example, we would continue to render the qos tier on a per compute resource basis when describing a pod?

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Thinking on this more, if memory is what is under system pressure, it does
seem right that my OOMScoreAdjust should be based solely on my memory qos?

Can you elaborate a little more on why we would need a different cgroup for
CPU versus memory in the alternate model that is causing you concern?

We can chat more in real life if it's easier.

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I need to think on this some, as I thought we were going to ignore CPU
since it was compressible and ceiling enforced if flag was enabled. It had
made sense to me to do only a cgroup per memory qos on the node.

For the end-user, this means my OOMScoreAdjust value is based on the
lowest level of compute resource QoS, but from a scheduling perspective, I
would still be BestEffort/Burstable/Guaranteed on a per compute resource
basis, correct?

Are there ramifications other than OOMScoreAdjust that I am missing?

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vishh commented Oct 2, 2015

@derekwaynecarr: My understanding is that the entire system will treat all resources to be belonging to the same QoS class. Since we cannot guarantee isolation per-resource at the node level, I don't see why the rest of the system will treat each resource separately.
On the CPU front, just hardcapping wont be enough I think. The reason is that cpu scheduling is also inferred from cpu shares and hierarchies. The best way to guarantee fairness among QoS classes and at the same time not starve best-effort tasks will be to place them in hierarchical cgroups.

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vishh commented Oct 2, 2015

Consider this example: A container x is cpu guaranteed, and memory burstable. Our current plan is to have hierarchical cgroups for each class. This would result in following cgroup hierarchies:
cpu: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu//docker/x
memory: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/docker/best-effort/x

Ideally, we don't want the OOM score to kick in, since it affects system stability. If we were to limit memory allocations to lower QoS classes, based on a TBD policy (#13006), we can avoid incurring system memory pressure to a large extent.

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Unified hierarchy:
https://lwn.net/Articles/601840/


# Resource Quality of Service in Kubernetes

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Is any of this file different? Separate commits for edit vs. move would have been useful.

If some is different, add yourself to the authors list. Please add a date last updated.

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Done

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davidopp commented Oct 5, 2015

I kinda sympathize with @derekwaynecarr's view that anything of the form "user sets X, but system treats it as if the user set Y" is asking for confusion. A better approach, that would still enforce the same policy, might be to use validation to require a user to set all resources of a container to the same QoS class and reject if they are not (rather than allowing the user to set different QoS's and then treating them all as the min).

Since we want to make Kubernetes as simple as possible for its users we don’t want to require setting [Resources](../design/resource-qos.md) for container by its owner.
On the other hand having Resources filled is critical for scheduling decisions.
Current solution to set up Resources to hardcoded value has obvious drawbacks.
We need to implement a component which will set initial Resources to a reasonable value.
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This is already implemented as of 1.1. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any user or admin documentation yet, just design docs in proposals/. I've asked the autoscaling team to write something, and then we can link to it here.

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Acknowledged. cc @piosz

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I'll try to do it tomorrow.

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@davidopp - I am not a huge fan of requiring all compute resources be a member of the same qos class as part of validation. We have a number of things that are setting resources, that I think that requiring this rule would make for a poor user experience. I still need to read the referenced document on unified hierarchy. I agree with @vishh that we want to more proactively prevent OOM scenarios using some type of memory monitoring in the future that pro-actively kills containers when under memory pressure. In that scenario, I was less concerned with this change just updating the oom_score_adj value, and more concerned on if there were other semantics I was missing as part of this change.

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vishh commented Oct 5, 2015

Rebased and addressed comments.

PTAL @davidopp @bgrant0607 @derekwaynecarr.

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For each resource, containers can specify a resource request and limit, 0 <= request <= limit <= Infinity.
If the container is successfully scheduled, the container is guaranteed the amount of resource requested.
Scheduling is based on `requests` and not `limits`.
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I think it's important to note what the defaulting logic is so there is no confusion when users specify limits and not requests. If a limit is specified, but there is no corresponding request, the request defaults to the limit.

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Done.

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vishh commented May 20, 2016

@dchen1107 PTAL

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LGTM

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Can you squash the commits, then we are ok to go? Thanks!

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vishh commented May 20, 2016

Commits squashed. Applying LGTM label as per offline conversation..

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ingvagabund added a commit to ingvagabund/kubernetes that referenced this pull request May 21, 2016
… pods for nodes that reports memory pressury.

Introduce unit-test for CheckNodeMemoryPressurePredicate

Following work done in kubernetes#14943
k8s-github-robot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 22, 2016
…to-scheduler

Automatic merge from submit-queue

Introduce node memory pressure condition to scheduler

Following the work done by @derekwaynecarr at #21274, introducing memory pressure predicate for scheduler.

Missing:

* write down unit-test
* test the implementation

At the moment this is a heads up for further discussion how the new node's memory pressure condition should be handled in the generic scheduler.

**Additional info**

* Based on [1], only best effort pods are subject to filtering.
* Based on [2], best effort pods are those pods "iff requests & limits are not specified for any resource across all containers".

[1] https://github.com/derekwaynecarr/kubernetes/blob/542668cc7998fe0acb315a43731e1f45ecdcc85b/docs/proposals/kubelet-eviction.md#scheduler
[2] #14943
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erictune commented Jul 2, 2016

@vishh Does this PR require action by the user when upgrading from 1.2.x to 1.3.0? (Think about non-developer users.) If so, please edit your first comment to have a release-note block, like in #28132. If it is just an optional feature, please change the label to just release-note. If it is not a complete feature by itself, then apply "release-note-none" label instead.

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vishh commented Jul 2, 2016

@erictune Yes. This PR calls for users to set limits on all the pods they care about before upgrade.
I updated the PR description to match the release note template, similar to #28132.
It is not an option feature and will affect existing pods.
It is a behavior change in the system.

michelleN pushed a commit to michelleN/community that referenced this pull request Nov 19, 2016
…to-scheduler

Automatic merge from submit-queue

Introduce node memory pressure condition to scheduler

Following the work done by @derekwaynecarr at kubernetes/kubernetes#21274, introducing memory pressure predicate for scheduler.

Missing:

* write down unit-test
* test the implementation

At the moment this is a heads up for further discussion how the new node's memory pressure condition should be handled in the generic scheduler.

**Additional info**

* Based on [1], only best effort pods are subject to filtering.
* Based on [2], best effort pods are those pods "iff requests & limits are not specified for any resource across all containers".

[1] https://github.com/derekwaynecarr/kubernetes/blob/542668cc7998fe0acb315a43731e1f45ecdcc85b/docs/proposals/kubelet-eviction.md#scheduler
[2] kubernetes/kubernetes#14943
xingzhou pushed a commit to xingzhou/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2016
Automatic merge from submit-queue

Updaing QoS policy to be at the pod level

Quality of Service will be derived from an entire Pod Spec, instead of being derived from resource specifications of individual resources per-container.
A Pod is `Guaranteed` iff all its containers have limits == requests for all the first-class resources (cpu, memory as of now).
A Pod is `BestEffort` iff requests & limits are not specified for any resource across all containers.
A Pod is `Burstable` otherwise. 

Note: Existing pods might be more susceptible to OOM Kills on the node due to this PR! To protect pods from being OOM killed on the node, set `limits` for all resources across all containers in a pod.

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Automatic merge from submit-queue

Updaing QoS policy to be at the pod level

Quality of Service will be derived from an entire Pod Spec, instead of being derived from resource specifications of individual resources per-container.
A Pod is `Guaranteed` iff all its containers have limits == requests for all the first-class resources (cpu, memory as of now).
A Pod is `BestEffort` iff requests & limits are not specified for any resource across all containers.
A Pod is `Burstable` otherwise. 

Note: Existing pods might be more susceptible to OOM Kills on the node due to this PR! To protect pods from being OOM killed on the node, set `limits` for all resources across all containers in a pod.

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xingzhou pushed a commit to xingzhou/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2016
… pods for nodes that reports memory pressury.

Introduce unit-test for CheckNodeMemoryPressurePredicate

Following work done in kubernetes#14943
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