On 03/07/2017 08:41 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
Hello, Krzysztof.
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Krzysztof Opasiak wrote:
So maybe let me clarify our use case so we can have some more discussion
about this. We are dealing with task of monitoring system services on an IoT
system. So this system needs to run as long as possible without reboot just
like server. In server world almost whole system state is being monitored by
services like nagios. They measure each parameter (like cpu, memory etc)
with some interval. Unfortunately we cannot use this it in an embedded
system due to power consumption.
So, we don't add controllers for specific use case scenarios. The
target actually has to be a fundamental resource which can't be
isolated in a different way.
The use case you're describing is more about working around
shortcomings in userspace by implemneting a major kernel feature, when
the said shortcomings can easily be controlled and mitigated from
userspace - e.g. if running out of fds can't be handled reliably from
the target application for some reason and the application may lock up
from the condition, protect the base resources so that a monitoring
process can always reliably run and let that take a corrective action
when such condition is detected.
In theory that's what we plan to do but we are looking for an efficient
method of detecting that this particular application is using more fds
than it should (declared by developer).
Personally, I don't want to use rlimit for this as it ends up returning
error code from for example open() when we hit the limit. This may lead
to some unpredictable crashes in services (esp. those poor proprietary
binary blobs). Instead of injecting errors to service we would like to
just get notification that this service has more opened fds than it
should and ask it to restart in a polite way.
For memory seems to be quite easy to achieve as we can just get eventfd
notification when application passes given memory usage using memory
cgroup controller. Maybe you know some efficient method to do the same
for fds?
Best regards,
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Krzysztof Opasiak
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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