From c4e0842bf141178fd5bc0cfe364609ec782fb384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:33:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers Currently, cgroups v2 documentation contains only a generic remark that "How resource consumption in the root cgroup is governed is up to each controller", which isn't really telling users much, who need to dig in the code and / or commit messages to learn the exact behavior. In cgroups v1 at least the blkio controller had its operation with respect to competition between child threads and child cgroups documented in blkio-controller.txt, with references to cfq-iosched.txt. Also, cgroups v2 documentation describes v1 behavior of both cpu and blkio controllers in an "Issues with v1" section. Let's document this behavior also for cgroups v2 to make life easier for users. Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt index c783bbb..74cdeae 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ v1 is available under Documentation/cgroup-v1/. 5-6-1. RDMA Interface Files 5-7. Misc 5-7-1. perf_event + 5-N. Non-normative information + 5-N-1. CPU controller root cgroup process behaviour + 5-N-2. IO controller root cgroup process behaviour 6. Namespace 6-1. Basics 6-2. The Root and Views @@ -421,7 +424,9 @@ The root cgroup is exempt from this restriction. Root contains processes and anonymous resource consumption which can't be associated with any other cgroups and requires special treatment from most controllers. How resource consumption in the root cgroup is governed -is up to each controller. +is up to each controller (for more information on this topic please +refer to the Non-normative information section in the Controllers +chapter). Note that the restriction doesn't get in the way if there is no enabled controller in the cgroup's "cgroup.subtree_control". This is @@ -1506,6 +1511,35 @@ always be filtered by cgroup v2 path. The controller can still be moved to a legacy hierarchy after v2 hierarchy is populated. +Non-normative information +------------------------- + +This section contains information that isn't considered to be a part of +the stable kernel API and so is subject to change. + + +CPU controller root cgroup process behaviour +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When distributing CPU cycles in the root cgroup each thread in this +cgroup is treated as if it was hosted in a separate child cgroup of the +root cgroup. This child cgroup weight is dependent on its thread nice +level. + +For details of this mapping see sched_prio_to_weight array in +kernel/sched/core.c file (values from this array should be scaled +appropriately so the neutral - nice 0 - value is 100 instead of 1024). + + +IO controller root cgroup process behaviour +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Root cgroup processes are hosted in an implicit leaf child node. +When distributing IO resources this implicit child node is taken into +account as if it was a normal child cgroup of the root cgroup with a +weight value of 200. + + Namespace ========= -- 2.7.4