Merge pull request #2941 from kolyshkin/another-kludge-to-fix-freeze

freezer: add delay after freeze

LGTMs: AkihiroSuda mrunalp dqminh
This commit is contained in:
Kir Kolyshkin
2021-05-06 12:28:53 -07:00
committed by GitHub
+25 -7
View File
@@ -43,20 +43,31 @@ func (s *FreezerGroup) Set(path string, r *configs.Resources) (Err error) {
// kernel commit ef9fe980c6fcc1821), if FREEZING is seen,
// userspace should either retry or thaw. While current
// kernel cgroup v1 docs no longer mention a need to retry,
// the kernel (tested on v5.4, Ubuntu 20.04) can't reliably
// freeze a cgroup while new processes keep appearing in it
// even a recent kernel (v5.4, Ubuntu 20.04) can't reliably
// freeze a cgroup v1 while new processes keep appearing in it
// (either via fork/clone or by writing new PIDs to
// cgroup.procs).
//
// The numbers below are chosen to have a decent chance to
// succeed even in the worst case scenario (runc pause/unpause
// with parallel runc exec).
// The numbers below are empirically chosen to have a decent
// chance to succeed in various scenarios ("runc pause/unpause
// with parallel runc exec" and "bare freeze/unfreeze on a very
// slow system"), tested on RHEL7 and Ubuntu 20.04 kernels.
//
// Adding any amount of sleep in between retries did not
// increase the chances of successful freeze.
// increase the chances of successful freeze in "pause/unpause
// with parallel exec" reproducer. OTOH, adding an occasional
// sleep helped for the case where the system is extremely slow
// (CentOS 7 VM on GHA CI).
//
// Alas, this is still a game of chances, since the real fix
// belong to the kernel (cgroup v2 do not have this bug).
for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
if i%50 == 49 {
// Briefly thawing the cgroup also helps.
// Occasional thaw and sleep improves
// the chances to succeed in freezing
// in case new processes keep appearing
// in the cgroup.
_ = fscommon.WriteFile(path, "freezer.state", string(configs.Thawed))
time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
}
@@ -65,6 +76,13 @@ func (s *FreezerGroup) Set(path string, r *configs.Resources) (Err error) {
return err
}
if i%25 == 24 {
// Occasional short sleep before reading
// the state back also improves the chances to
// succeed in freezing in case of a very slow
// system.
time.Sleep(10 * time.Microsecond)
}
state, err := fscommon.ReadFile(path, "freezer.state")
if err != nil {
return err