[Devel] Re: [RFC] CPU hard limits

[Balbir Singh]

* Avi Kivity <avi at redhat.com> [2009-06-04 15:19:22]:

> Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > 2. Need for hard limiting CPU resource
> > --------------------------------------
> > - Pay-per-use: In enterprise systems that cater to multiple clients/customers
> >   where a customer demands a certain share of CPU resources and pays only
> >   that, CPU hard limits will be useful to hard limit the customer's job
> >   to consume only the specified amount of CPU resource.
> > - In container based virtualization environments running multiple containers,
> >   hard limits will be useful to ensure a container doesn't exceed its
> >   CPU entitlement.
> > - Hard limits can be used to provide guarantees.
> >   
> How can hard limits provide guarantees?
> 
> Let's take an example where I have 1 group that I wish to guarantee a 
> 20% share of the cpu, and anther 8 groups with no limits or guarantees.
> 
> One way to achieve the guarantee is to hard limit each of the 8 other 
> groups to 10%; the sum total of the limits is 80%, leaving 20% for the 
> guarantee group. The downside is the arbitrary limit imposed on the 
> other groups.
> 
> Another way is to place the 8 groups in a container group, and limit 
> that to 80%. But that doesn't work if I want to provide guarantees to 
> several groups.
>

Hi, Avi,

Take a look at
http://wiki.openvz.org/Containers/Guarantees_for_resources
and the associated program in the wiki page.

-- 
	Balbir
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