memory_policy.go

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package qos

import (
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
)

const (
	PodInfraOomAdj       int = -999
	KubeletOomScoreAdj   int = -999
	KubeProxyOomScoreAdj int = -999
)

// isMemoryBestEffort returns true if the container's memory requirements are best-effort.
func isMemoryBestEffort(container *api.Container) bool {
	// A container is memory best-effort if its memory request is unspecified or 0.
	// If a request is specified, then the user expects some kind of resource guarantee.
	return container.Resources.Requests.Memory().Value() == 0
}

// isMemoryGuaranteed returns true if the container's memory requirements are Guaranteed.
func isMemoryGuaranteed(container *api.Container) bool {
	// A container is memory guaranteed if its memory request == memory limit.
	// If memory request == memory limit, the user is very confident of resource consumption.
	memoryRequest := container.Resources.Requests.Memory()
	memoryLimit := container.Resources.Limits.Memory()
	return (*memoryRequest).Cmp(*memoryLimit) == 0 && memoryRequest.Value() != 0
}

// GetContainerOomAdjust returns the amount by which the OOM score of all processes in the
// container should be adjusted. The OOM score of a process is the percentage of memory it consumes
// multiplied by 100 (barring exceptional cases) + a configurable quantity which is between -1000
// and 1000. Containers with higher OOM scores are killed if the system runs out of memory.
// See https://lwn.net/Articles/391222/ for more information.
func GetContainerOomScoreAdjust(container *api.Container, memoryCapacity int64) int {
	if isMemoryGuaranteed(container) {
		// Memory guaranteed containers should be the last to get killed.
		return -999
	} else if isMemoryBestEffort(container) {
		// Memory best-effort containers should be the first to be killed.
		return 1000
	} else {
		// Burstable containers are a middle tier, between Guaranteed and Best-Effort. Ideally,
		// we want to protect Burstable containers that consume less memory than requested.
		// The formula below is a heuristic. A container requesting for 10% of a system's
		// memory will have an oom score adjust of 900. If a process in container Y
		// uses over 10% of memory, its OOM score will be 1000. The idea is that containers
		// which use more than their request will have an OOM score of 1000 and will be prime
		// targets for OOM kills.
		// Note that this is a heuristic, it won't work if a container has many small processes.
		memoryRequest := container.Resources.Requests.Memory().Value()
		oomScoreAdjust := 1000 - (1000*memoryRequest)/memoryCapacity
		// A memory guaranteed container using 100% of memory can have an OOM score of 1. Ensure
		// that memory burstable containers have a higher OOM score.
		if oomScoreAdjust < 2 {
			return 2
		}
		return int(oomScoreAdjust)
	}
}