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author | Linus Torvalds | 2017-02-27 21:41:08 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2017-02-27 21:41:08 -0800 |
commit | f7878dc3a9d3d900c86a66d9742f7e06681b06cd (patch) | |
tree | caf8dc1b1b668309200159519f0dc5c25c515acd /Documentation | |
parent | fb15a78210f169cf39a42df208cff09cdac86574 (diff) | |
parent | f83f3c515654474e19c7fc86e3b06564bb5cb4d4 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"Several noteworthy changes.
- Parav's rdma controller is finally merged. It is very straight
forward and can limit the abosolute numbers of common rdma
constructs used by different cgroups.
- kernel/cgroup.c got too chubby and disorganized. Created
kernel/cgroup/ subdirectory and moved all cgroup related files
under kernel/ there and reorganized the core code. This hurts for
backporting patches but was long overdue.
- cgroup v2 process listing reimplemented so that it no longer
depends on allocating a buffer large enough to cache the entire
result to sort and uniq the output. v2 has always mangled the sort
order to ensure that users don't depend on the sorted output, so
this shouldn't surprise anybody. This makes the pid listing
functions use the same iterators that are used internally, which
have to have the same iterating capabilities anyway.
- perf cgroup filtering now works automatically on cgroup v2. This
patch was posted a long time ago but somehow fell through the
cracks.
- misc fixes asnd documentation updates"
* 'for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (27 commits)
kernfs: fix locking around kernfs_ops->release() callback
cgroup: drop the matching uid requirement on migration for cgroup v2
cgroup, perf_event: make perf_event controller work on cgroup2 hierarchy
cgroup: misc cleanups
cgroup: call subsys->*attach() only for subsystems which are actually affected by migration
cgroup: track migration context in cgroup_mgctx
cgroup: cosmetic update to cgroup_taskset_add()
rdmacg: Fixed uninitialized current resource usage
cgroup: Add missing cgroup-v2 PID controller documentation.
rdmacg: Added documentation for rdmacg
IB/core: added support to use rdma cgroup controller
rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller
cgroup: fix a comment typo
cgroup: fix RCU related sparse warnings
cgroup: move namespace code to kernel/cgroup/namespace.c
cgroup: rename functions for consistency
cgroup: move v1 mount functions to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
cgroup: separate out cgroup1_kf_syscall_ops
cgroup: refactor mount path and clearly distinguish v1 and v2 paths
cgroup: move cgroup v1 specific code to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v1/rdma.txt | 109 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 103 |
2 files changed, 205 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/rdma.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/rdma.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..af618171e0eb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/rdma.txt @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ + RDMA Controller + ---------------- + +Contents +-------- + +1. Overview + 1-1. What is RDMA controller? + 1-2. Why RDMA controller needed? + 1-3. How is RDMA controller implemented? +2. Usage Examples + +1. Overview + +1-1. What is RDMA controller? +----------------------------- + +RDMA controller allows user to limit RDMA/IB specific resources that a given +set of processes can use. These processes are grouped using RDMA controller. + +RDMA controller defines two resources which can be limited for processes of a +cgroup. + +1-2. Why RDMA controller needed? +-------------------------------- + +Currently user space applications can easily take away all the rdma verb +specific resources such as AH, CQ, QP, MR etc. Due to which other applications +in other cgroup or kernel space ULPs may not even get chance to allocate any +rdma resources. This can leads to service unavailability. + +Therefore RDMA controller is needed through which resource consumption +of processes can be limited. Through this controller different rdma +resources can be accounted. + +1-3. How is RDMA controller implemented? +---------------------------------------- + +RDMA cgroup allows limit configuration of resources. Rdma cgroup maintains +resource accounting per cgroup, per device using resource pool structure. +Each such resource pool is limited up to 64 resources in given resource pool +by rdma cgroup, which can be extended later if required. + +This resource pool object is linked to the cgroup css. Typically there +are 0 to 4 resource pool instances per cgroup, per device in most use cases. +But nothing limits to have it more. At present hundreds of RDMA devices per +single cgroup may not be handled optimally, however there is no +known use case or requirement for such configuration either. + +Since RDMA resources can be allocated from any process and can be freed by any +of the child processes which shares the address space, rdma resources are +always owned by the creator cgroup css. This allows process migration from one +to other cgroup without major complexity of transferring resource ownership; +because such ownership is not really present due to shared nature of +rdma resources. Linking resources around css also ensures that cgroups can be +deleted after processes migrated. This allow progress migration as well with +active resources, even though that is not a primary use case. + +Whenever RDMA resource charging occurs, owner rdma cgroup is returned to +the caller. Same rdma cgroup should be passed while uncharging the resource. +This also allows process migrated with active RDMA resource to charge +to new owner cgroup for new resource. It also allows to uncharge resource of +a process from previously charged cgroup which is migrated to new cgroup, +even though that is not a primary use case. + +Resource pool object is created in following situations. +(a) User sets the limit and no previous resource pool exist for the device +of interest for the cgroup. +(b) No resource limits were configured, but IB/RDMA stack tries to +charge the resource. So that it correctly uncharge them when applications are +running without limits and later on when limits are enforced during uncharging, +otherwise usage count will drop to negative. + +Resource pool is destroyed if all the resource limits are set to max and +it is the last resource getting deallocated. + +User should set all the limit to max value if it intents to remove/unconfigure +the resource pool for a particular device. + +IB stack honors limits enforced by the rdma controller. When application +query about maximum resource limits of IB device, it returns minimum of +what is configured by user for a given cgroup and what is supported by +IB device. + +Following resources can be accounted by rdma controller. + hca_handle Maximum number of HCA Handles + hca_object Maximum number of HCA Objects + +2. Usage Examples +----------------- + +(a) Configure resource limit: +echo mlx4_0 hca_handle=2 hca_object=2000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/1/rdma.max +echo ocrdma1 hca_handle=3 > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/2/rdma.max + +(b) Query resource limit: +cat /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/2/rdma.max +#Output: +mlx4_0 hca_handle=2 hca_object=2000 +ocrdma1 hca_handle=3 hca_object=max + +(c) Query current usage: +cat /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/2/rdma.current +#Output: +mlx4_0 hca_handle=1 hca_object=20 +ocrdma1 hca_handle=1 hca_object=23 + +(d) Delete resource limit: +echo echo mlx4_0 hca_handle=max hca_object=max > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/1/rdma.max diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt index 4cc07ce3b8dd..3b8449f8ac7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ CONTENTS 5-3. IO 5-3-1. IO Interface Files 5-3-2. Writeback + 5-4. PID + 5-4-1. PID Interface Files + 5-5. RDMA + 5-5-1. RDMA Interface Files + 5-6. Misc + 5-6-1. perf_event 6. Namespace 6-1. Basics 6-2. The Root and Views @@ -328,14 +334,12 @@ a process with a non-root euid to migrate a target process into a cgroup by writing its PID to the "cgroup.procs" file, the following conditions must be met. -- The writer's euid must match either uid or suid of the target process. - - The writer must have write access to the "cgroup.procs" file. - The writer must have write access to the "cgroup.procs" file of the common ancestor of the source and destination cgroups. -The above three constraints ensure that while a delegatee may migrate +The above two constraints ensure that while a delegatee may migrate processes around freely in the delegated sub-hierarchy it can't pull in from or push out to outside the sub-hierarchy. @@ -350,10 +354,10 @@ all processes under C0 and C1 belong to U0. Let's also say U0 wants to write the PID of a process which is currently in C10 into "C00/cgroup.procs". U0 has write access to the -file and uid match on the process; however, the common ancestor of the -source cgroup C10 and the destination cgroup C00 is above the points -of delegation and U0 would not have write access to its "cgroup.procs" -files and thus the write will be denied with -EACCES. +file; however, the common ancestor of the source cgroup C10 and the +destination cgroup C00 is above the points of delegation and U0 would +not have write access to its "cgroup.procs" files and thus the write +will be denied with -EACCES. 2-6. Guidelines @@ -1119,6 +1123,91 @@ writeback as follows. vm.dirty[_background]_ratio. +5-4. PID + +The process number controller is used to allow a cgroup to stop any +new tasks from being fork()'d or clone()'d after a specified limit is +reached. + +The number of tasks in a cgroup can be exhausted in ways which other +controllers cannot prevent, thus warranting its own controller. For +example, a fork bomb is likely to exhaust the number of tasks before +hitting memory restrictions. + +Note that PIDs used in this controller refer to TIDs, process IDs as +used by the kernel. + + +5-4-1. PID Interface Files + + pids.max + + A read-write single value file which exists on non-root cgroups. The + default is "max". + + Hard limit of number of processes. + + pids.current + + A read-only single value file which exists on all cgroups. + + The number of processes currently in the cgroup and its descendants. + +Organisational operations are not blocked by cgroup policies, so it is +possible to have pids.current > pids.max. This can be done by either +setting the limit to be smaller than pids.current, or attaching enough +processes to the cgroup such that pids.current is larger than +pids.max. However, it is not possible to violate a cgroup PID policy +through fork() or clone(). These will return -EAGAIN if the creation +of a new process would cause a cgroup policy to be violated. + + +5-5. RDMA + +The "rdma" controller regulates the distribution and accounting of +of RDMA resources. + +5-5-1. RDMA Interface Files + + rdma.max + A readwrite nested-keyed file that exists for all the cgroups + except root that describes current configured resource limit + for a RDMA/IB device. + + Lines are keyed by device name and are not ordered. + Each line contains space separated resource name and its configured + limit that can be distributed. + + The following nested keys are defined. + + hca_handle Maximum number of HCA Handles + hca_object Maximum number of HCA Objects + + An example for mlx4 and ocrdma device follows. + + mlx4_0 hca_handle=2 hca_object=2000 + ocrdma1 hca_handle=3 hca_object=max + + rdma.current + A read-only file that describes current resource usage. + It exists for all the cgroup except root. + + An example for mlx4 and ocrdma device follows. + + mlx4_0 hca_handle=1 hca_object=20 + ocrdma1 hca_handle=1 hca_object=23 + + +5-6. Misc + +5-6-1. perf_event + +perf_event controller, if not mounted on a legacy hierarchy, is +automatically enabled on the v2 hierarchy so that perf events can +always be filtered by cgroup v2 path. The controller can still be +moved to a legacy hierarchy after v2 hierarchy is populated. + + 6. Namespace 6-1. Basics |