The Nomad client expects certain cgroups paths to exist in order to
manage tasks. These paths are created when the agent first starts, but
if process fails the agent would just log the error and proceed with its
initialization, despite not being able to run tasks.
This commit surfaces the errors back to the client initialization so the
process can stop early and make clear to operators that something went
wrong.
* numalib: provide a fallback for topology scanning on linux
* numalib: better package var names
* cl: add cl
* lint: fix my sloppy code
* cl: fixup wording
Unsupported environments like containers or guests OSs inside LXD can
incorrectly number of available cores thus leading to numalib having trouble
detecting cores and panicking. This code adds tests for linux sysfs detection
methods and fixes the panic.
This PR tweaks the linux cpu fingerprinter to handle the case where no
NUMA node data is found under /sys/devices/system/, in which case we
need to assume just one node, one socket.
* core: plumbing to support numa aware scheduling
* core: apply node resources compatibility upon fsm rstore
Handle the case where an upgraded server dequeus an evaluation before
a client triggers a new fingerprint - which would be needed to cause
the compatibility fix to run. By running the compat fix on restore the
server will immediately have the compatible pseudo topology to use.
* lint: learn how to spell pseudo
No functional changes, just cleaning up deprecated usages that are
removed in v2 and replace one call of .Slice with .ForEach to avoid
making the intermediate copy.
* drivers: plumb hardware topology via grpc into drivers
This PR swaps out the temporary use of detecting system hardware manually
in each driver for using the Client's detected topology by plumbing the
data over gRPC. This ensures that Client configuration is taken to account
consistently in all references to system topology.
* cr: use enum instead of bool for core grade
* cr: fix test slit tables to be possible
* client: refactor cpuset partitioning
This PR updates the way Nomad client manages the split between tasks
that make use of resources.cpus vs. resources.cores.
Previously, each task was explicitly assigned which CPU cores they were
able to run on. Every time a task was started or destroyed, all other
tasks' cpusets would need to be updated. This was inefficient and would
crush the Linux kernel when a client would try to run ~400 or so tasks.
Now, we make use of cgroup heirarchy and cpuset inheritence to efficiently
manage cpusets.
* cr: tweaks for feedback
cgroupslib.MaybeDisableMemorySwappiness returned an incorrect type, and was
incorrectly typecast to int64 causing a panic on non-linux and non-windows hosts.
* lang: note that Stack is not concurrency-safe
* client: use more descriptive name for wrangler hook in logs
* numalib: use correct name for receiver parameter
Although nomad officially does not support running the client as a non-root
user, doing so has been more or less possible with the raw_exec driver as
long as you don't expect features to work like networking or running tasks
as specific users. In the cgroups refactoring I bulldozed right over the
special casing we had in place for raw_exec to continue working if the cgroups
were unable to be created. This PR restores that behavior - you can now
(as before) run the nomad client as a non-root user and make use of the
raw_exec task driver.
Before this commit, it was only used for fingerprinting, but not
for CPU stats on nodes or tasks. This meant that if the
auto-detection failed, setting the cpu_total_compute didn't resolved
the issue.
This issue was most noticeable on ARM64, as there auto-detection
always failed.
* client: do not disable memory swappiness if kernel does not support it
This PR adds a workaround for very old Linux kernels which do not support
the memory swappiness interface file. Normally we write a "0" to the file
to explicitly disable swap. In the case the kernel does not support it,
give libcontainer a nil value so it does not write anything.
Fixes#17448
* client: detect swappiness by writing to the file
* fixup changelog
Co-authored-by: James Rasell <jrasell@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: James Rasell <jrasell@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix DevicesSets being removed when cpusets are reloaded with cgroup v2
This meant that if any allocation was created or removed, all
active DevicesSets were removed from all cgroups of all tasks.
This was most noticeable with "exec" and "raw_exec", as it meant
they no longer had access to /dev files.
* e2e: add test for verifying cgroups do not interfere with access to devices
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Co-authored-by: Seth Hoenig <shoenig@duck.com>
During shutdown of a client with drain_on_shutdown there is a race between
the Client ending the cgroup and the task's cpuset manager cleaning up
the cgroup. During the path traversal, skip anything we cannot read, which
avoids the nil DirEntry we try to dereference now.
* cgv1: do not disable cpuset manager if reserved interface already exists
This PR fixes a bug where restarting a Nomad Client on a machine using cgroups
v1 (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04) would cause the cpuset cgroups manager to disable itself.
This is being caused by incorrectly interpreting a "file exists" error as
problematic when ensuring the reserved cpuset exists. If we get a "file exists"
error, that just means the Client was likely restarted.
Note that a machine reboot would fix the issue - the groups interfaces are
ephemoral.
* cl: add cl
* Update ioutil deprecated library references to os and io respectively
* Deal with the errors produced.
Add error handling to filEntry info
Add error handling to info
* client: ensure minimal cgroup controllers enabled
This PR fixes a bug where Nomad could not operate properly on operating
systems that set the root cgroup.subtree_control to a set of controllers that
do not include the minimal set of controllers needed by Nomad.
Nomad needs these controllers enabled to operate:
- cpuset
- cpu
- io
- memory
- pids
Now, Nomad will ensure these controllers are enabled during Client initialization,
adding them to cgroup.subtree_control as necessary. This should be particularly
helpful on the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora family of system. Ubuntu systems should be
unaffected as they enable all controllers by default.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/14494
* docs: cleanup doc string
* client: cleanup controller writes, enhance log messages
Running `make check` on macOS identifies some dead code because the code is used
only with the Linux build tag. Move this code into appropriately-tagged code
files.
Log lines which include an error should use the full term "error"
as the context key. This provides consistency across the codebase
and avoids a Go style which operators might not be aware of.
This PR refactors the cgroups v2 group kill code path to use the
cgroups.kill interface file for destroying the cgroup. Previously
we copied the freeze + sigkill + unfreeze pattern from the v1 code,
but v2 provides a more efficient and more race-free way to handle
this.
Closes#14371
This PR refactors the code path in Client startup for setting up the cpuset
cgroup manager (non-linux systems not affected).
Before, there was a logic bug where we would try to read the cpuset.cpus.effective
cgroup interface file before ensuring nomad's parent cgroup existed. Therefor that
file would not exist, and the list of useable cpus would be empty. Tasks started
thereafter would not have a value set for their cpuset.cpus.
The refactoring fixes some less than ideal coding style. Instead we now bootstrap
each cpuset manager type (v1/v2) within its own constructor. If something goes
awry during bootstrap (e.g. cgroups not enabled), the constructor returns the
noop implementation and logs a warning.
Fixes#14229
* test: use `T.TempDir` to create temporary test directory
This commit replaces `ioutil.TempDir` with `t.TempDir` in tests. The
directory created by `t.TempDir` is automatically removed when the test
and all its subtests complete.
Prior to this commit, temporary directory created using `ioutil.TempDir`
needs to be removed manually by calling `os.RemoveAll`, which is omitted
in some tests. The error handling boilerplate e.g.
defer func() {
if err := os.RemoveAll(dir); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
}
is also tedious, but `t.TempDir` handles this for us nicely.
Reference: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#T.TempDir
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
* test: fix TestLogmon_Start_restart on Windows
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
* test: fix failing TestConsul_Integration
t.TempDir fails to perform the cleanup properly because the folder is
still in use
testing.go:967: TempDir RemoveAll cleanup: unlinkat /tmp/TestConsul_Integration2837567823/002/191a6f1a-5371-cf7c-da38-220fe85d10e5/web/secrets: device or resource busy
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
This PR modifies raw_exec and exec to ensure the cgroup for a task
they are driving still exists during a task restart. These drivers
have the same bug but with different root cause.
For raw_exec, we were removing the cgroup in 2 places - the cpuset
manager, and in the unix containment implementation (the thing that
uses freezer cgroup to clean house). During a task restart, the
containment would remove the cgroup, and when the task runner hooks
went to start again would block on waiting for the cgroup to exist,
which will never happen, because it gets created by the cpuset manager
which only runs as an alloc pre-start hook. The fix here is to simply
not delete the cgroup in the containment implementation; killing the
PIDs is enough. The removal happens in the cpuset manager later anyway.
For exec, it's the same idea, except DestroyTask is called on task
failure, which in turn calls into libcontainer, which in turn deletes
the cgroup. In this case we do not have control over the deletion of
the cgroup, so instead we hack the cgroup back into life after the
call to DestroyTask.
All of this only applies to cgroups v2.
This PR adds support for the raw_exec driver on systems with only cgroups v2.
The raw exec driver is able to use cgroups to manage processes. This happens
only on Linux, when exec_driver is enabled, and the no_cgroups option is not
set. The driver uses the freezer controller to freeze processes of a task,
issue a sigkill, then unfreeze. Previously the implementation assumed cgroups
v1, and now it also supports cgroups v2.
There is a bit of refactoring in this PR, but the fundamental design remains
the same.
Closes#12351#12348
This PR introduces support for using Nomad on systems with cgroups v2 [1]
enabled as the cgroups controller mounted on /sys/fs/cgroups. Newer Linux
distros like Ubuntu 21.10 are shipping with cgroups v2 only, causing problems
for Nomad users.
Nomad mostly "just works" with cgroups v2 due to the indirection via libcontainer,
but not so for managing cpuset cgroups. Before, Nomad has been making use of
a feature in v1 where a PID could be a member of more than one cgroup. In v2
this is no longer possible, and so the logic around computing cpuset values
must be modified. When Nomad detects v2, it manages cpuset values in-process,
rather than making use of cgroup heirarchy inheritence via shared/reserved
parents.
Nomad will only activate the v2 logic when it detects cgroups2 is mounted at
/sys/fs/cgroups. This means on systems running in hybrid mode with cgroups2
mounted at /sys/fs/cgroups/unified (as is typical) Nomad will continue to
use the v1 logic, and should operate as before. Systems that do not support
cgroups v2 are also not affected.
When v2 is activated, Nomad will create a parent called nomad.slice (unless
otherwise configured in Client conifg), and create cgroups for tasks using
naming convention <allocID>-<task>.scope. These follow the naming convention
set by systemd and also used by Docker when cgroups v2 is detected.
Client nodes now export a new fingerprint attribute, unique.cgroups.version
which will be set to 'v1' or 'v2' to indicate the cgroups regime in use by
Nomad.
The new cpuset management strategy fixes#11705, where docker tasks that
spawned processes on startup would "leak". In cgroups v2, the PIDs are
started in the cgroup they will always live in, and thus the cause of
the leak is eliminated.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.htmlCloses#11289Fixes#11705#11773#11933
This PR tweaks the TestCpusetManager_AddAlloc unit test to not break
when being run on a machine using cgroupsv2. The behavior of writing
an empty cpuset.cpu changes in cgroupv2, where such a group now inherits
the value of its parent group, rather than remaining empty.
The test in question was written such that a task would consume all available
cores shared on an alloc, causing the empty set to be written to the shared
group, which works fine on cgroupsv1 but breaks on cgroupsv2. By adjusting
the test to consume only 1 core instead of all cores, it no longer triggers
that edge case.
The actual fix for the new cgroupsv2 behavior will be in #11933
