Some controllers (like the CPU controller) have a performance cost that
is non-trivial on certain workloads. While this can be mitigated and
improved to an extent, there will for some controllers always be some
overheads associated with the benefits gained from the controller.
Inside Facebook, the fix applied has been to disable the CPU controller
forcibly with `cgroup_disable=cpu` on the kernel command line.
This presents a problem: to disable or reenable the controller, a reboot
is required, but this is quite cumbersome and slow to do for many
thousands of machines, especially machines where disabling/enabling a
stateful service on a machine is a matter of several minutes.
Currently systemd provides some configuration knobs for these in the
form of `[Default]CPUAccounting`, `[Default]MemoryAccounting`, and the
like. The limitation of these is that Default*Accounting is overrideable
by individual services, of which any one could decide to reenable a
controller within the hierarchy at any point just by using a controller
feature implicitly (eg. `CPUWeight`), even if the use of that CPU
feature could just be opportunistic. Since many services are provided by
the distribution, or by upstream teams at a particular organisation,
it's not a sustainable solution to simply try to find and remove
offending directives from these units.
This commit presents a more direct solution -- a DisableControllers=
directive that forcibly disallows a controller from being enabled within
a subtree.
This adds a depth-first version of unit_realize_cgroup_now which can
only do depth-first disabling of controllers, in preparation for the
DisableController= directive.
systemd currently doesn't really expend much effort in disabling
controllers. unit_realize_cgroup_now *may* be able to disable a
controller in the basic case when using cgroup v2, but generally won't
manage as downstream dependents may still use it.
This code doesn't add any logic to fix that, but it starts the process
of moving to have a breadth-first version of unit_realize_cgroup_now for
enabling, and a depth-first version of unit_realize_cgroup_now for
disabling.
This splits out a bunch of functions from fileio.c that have to do with
temporary files. Simply to make the header files a bit shorter, and to
group things more nicely.
No code changes, just some rearranging of source files.
Susant Sahani
Lennart Poettering
Chris Down
Yu Watanabe
Harald Hoyer