[PATCH 0/8] RSS controller based on process containers (v3.1)

Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-04T13:21:17Z

Adds RSS accounting and control within a container.

Changes from v3
- comments across the code
- git-bisect safe split
- lost places to move the page between active/inactive lists

Ported above Paul's containers V10 with fixes from Balbir.

RSS container includes the per-container RSS accounting
and reclamation, and out-of-memory killer.

Each mapped page has an owning container and is linked into its
LRU lists just like in the global LRU ones. The owner of the page
is the container that touched the page first. As long as the page
stays mapped it holds the container, is accounted into its usage
and lives in its LRU list. When page is unmapped for the last time
it releases the container. The RSS usage is exactly the number of
pages in its booth LRU lists, i.e. the nu,ber of pages used by this
container. When this usage exceeds the limit set some pages are
reclaimed from the owning container. In case no reclamation possible
the OOM killer starts thinning out the container.

Thus the container behaves like a standalone machine - when it runs
out of resources, it tries to reclaim some pages, and if it doesn't
succeed, kills some task.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>

The testing scenario may look like this:

1. Prepare the containers
# mkdir -p /containers/rss
# mount -t container none /containers/rss -o rss

2. Make the new group and move bash into it
# mkdir /containers/rss/0
# echo $$ > /containers/rss/0/tasks

Since now we're in the 0 container.
We can alter the RSS limit
# echo -n 6000 > /containers/rss/0/rss_limit

We can check the usage
# cat /containers/rss/0/rss_usage
25

And do other stuff. To check the reclamation to work we need a
simple program that touches many pages of memory, like this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#ifndef PGSIZE
#define PGSIZE 4096
#endif

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned long pages;
int i;
char *mem;

if (argc < 2) {
printf("Usage: %s <number_of_pages>\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

pages = strtol(argv[1], &mem, 10);
if (*mem != '\0') {
printf("Bad number %s\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
}

mem = mmap(NULL, pages * PGSIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, 0, 0);
if (mem == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("map");
return 2;
}

for (i = 0; i < pages; i++)
mem[i * PGSIZE] = 0;

printf("OK\n");
return 0;
}