[Devel] Re: [RFC | PATCH 0/9] CPU controller over process container

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:21:11PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Here's a respin of my earlier CPU controller to work on top of Paul
> Menage's process container patches.
> 
> Problem:
> 
> 	Current CPU scheduler is very task centric, which makes it
> 	difficult to manage cpu resource consumption of a group of
> 	(related) tasks.
> 
> 	For ex: with the current O(1) scheduler, it is possible for a user to 
> 	monopolize CPU simply by spawning more and more threads, causing DoS 
> 	to other users.
> 
> 
> Requirements:
> 
> 	A few of them are:
> 
> 	- Provide means to group tasks from user-land and
> 	  specify limits of CPU bandwidth consumption of each group.
> 	  CPU bandwidth limit is enforced over some suitable time
> 	  period. For ex: a 40% limit could mean the task group's usage
> 	  is limited to 4 sec every 10 sec or 24 sec every minute.
> 
> 	- Time period over which bandwidth is controlled to each group
> 	  to be configurable (?)
> 
> 	- Work conserving - Do not let the CPU be idle if there are
> 	  runnable tasks (even if that means running task-groups that
> 	  are above their allowed limit)
> 
> 	- SMP behavior - Limit to be enforced on all CPUs put together
> 
> 	- Real-time tasks - Should be left alone as they are today?
> 	  i.e real time tasks across groups should be scheduled as if
> 	  they are in same group
> 
> 	- Should cater to requirements of variety of workload characteristics, 
> 	  including bursty ones (?)
> 
> 
> Salient points about this patch:
> 
>         - Each task-group gets its own runqueue on every cpu.

how does that scale for, let's say 200-300 guests on a
'typical' dual CPU machine?

>         - In addition, there is an active and expired array of
>           task-groups themselves. Task-groups that have expired their
>           quota are put into expired array.

how much overhead does that add to the scheduler, cpu
and memory wise?

>         - Task-groups have priorities. Priority of a task-group is the
>           same as the priority of the highest-priority runnable task it
>           has. This I feel will retain interactiveness of the system
>           as it is today.
> 
>         - Scheduling the next task involves picking highest priority task-group
>           from active array first and then picking highest-priority task
>           within it. Both steps are O(1).

how does that affect interactivity?

>         - Token are assigned to task-groups based on their assigned
>           quota. Once they run out of tokens, the task-group is put
>           in an expired array. Array switch happens when active array
>           is empty.
> 
>         - SMP load-balancing is accomplished on the lines of smpnice.

what about strict CPU limits (i.e. 20% regardless of
the idle state of the machine)

TIA,
Herbert

> Results of the patch
> ====================
> 
> Machine : 2way x86_64 Intel Xeon (3.6 GHz) box
> 
> Note: All test were forced to run on only one CPU using cpusets
> 
> 1. Volanomark [1]
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 		Group A [50% limit]		Group B [50% limit]
> 
> Elapsed time 		35.83 sec			36.6002
> Avg throughput		11179.3 msg/sec			10944.3 msg/sec
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 		Group A [80% limit]		Group B [20% limit]
> 
> Elapsed time 		23.4466 sec			36.1857
> Avg throughput		17072 msg/sec			11080 msg/sec
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 2. Kernel compilation
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 		Group A [50% limit]		Group B [50% limit]
> 		time -p make -j4 bzImage 	time -p make -j8 bzImage
> 
> real		771.00 sec			769.08 sec
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 		Group A [80% limit]		Group B [20% limit]
> 		time -p make -j4 bzImage 	time -p make -j8 bzImage
> 
> real		484.12 sec			769.70 sec
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 	
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> vatsa
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