Through conversation with Kumar L Srikanth-B22348, I found that the function of getting memory usage (e.g., virsh dominfo) doesn't work for lxc with ns subsystem of cgroup enabled. This is because of features of ns and memory subsystems. Ns creates child cgroup on every process fork and as a result processes in a container are not assigned in a cgroup for domain (e.g., libvirt/lxc/test1/). For example, libvirt_lxc and init (or somewhat specified in XML) are assigned into libvirt/lxc/test1/8839/ and libvirt/lxc/test1/8839/8849/, respectively. On the other hand, memory subsystem accounts memory usage within a group of processes by default, i.e., it does not take any child (and descendent) groups into account. With the two features, virsh dominfo which just checks memory usage of a cgroup for domain always returns zero because the cgroup has no process. Setting memory.use_hierarchy of a group allows to account (and limit) memory usage of every descendent groups of the group. By setting it of a cgroup for domain, we can get proper memory usage of lxc with ns subsystem enabled. (To be exact, the setting is required only when memory and ns subsystems are enabled at the same time, e.g., mount -t cgroup none /cgroup.) --- src/util/cgroup.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/cgroup.c b/src/util/cgroup.c index b8b2eb5..f7d6b41 100644 --- a/src/util/cgroup.c +++ b/src/util/cgroup.c @@ -443,7 +443,38 @@ static int virCgroupCpuSetInherit(virCgroupPtr parent, virCgroupPtr group) return rc; } -static int virCgroupMakeGroup(virCgroupPtr parent, virCgroupPtr group, int create) +static int virCgroupSetMemoryUseHierarchy(virCgroupPtr group) +{ + int rc = 0; + unsigned long long value; + const char *filename = "memory.use_hierarchy"; + + rc = virCgroupGetValueU64(group, + VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_MEMORY, + filename, &value); + if (rc != 0) { + VIR_ERROR("Failed to read %s/%s (%d)", group->path, filename, rc); + return rc; + } + + /* Setting twice causes error, so if already enabled, skip setting */ + if (value == 1) + return 0; + + VIR_DEBUG("Setting up %s/%s", group->path, filename); + rc = virCgroupSetValueU64(group, + VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_MEMORY, + filename, 1); + + if (rc != 0) { + VIR_ERROR("Failed to set %s/%s (%d)", group->path, filename, rc); + } + + return rc; +} + +static int virCgroupMakeGroup(virCgroupPtr parent, virCgroupPtr group, + int create, int memory_hierarchy) { int i; int rc = 0; @@ -477,6 +508,20 @@ static int virCgroupMakeGroup(virCgroupPtr parent, virCgroupPtr group, int creat break; } } + /* + * Note that virCgroupSetMemoryUseHierarchy should always be + * called prior to creating subcgroups and attaching tasks. + */ + if (memory_hierarchy && + group->controllers[VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_MEMORY].mountPoint != NULL && + (i == VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_MEMORY || + STREQ(group->controllers[i].mountPoint, group->controllers[VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_MEMORY].mountPoint))) { + rc = virCgroupSetMemoryUseHierarchy(group); + if (rc != 0) { + VIR_FREE(path); + break; + } + } } VIR_FREE(path); @@ -553,7 +598,7 @@ static int virCgroupAppRoot(int privileged, if (rc != 0) goto cleanup; - rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(rootgrp, *group, create); + rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(rootgrp, *group, create, 0); cleanup: virCgroupFree(&rootgrp); @@ -653,7 +698,7 @@ int virCgroupForDriver(const char *name, VIR_FREE(path); if (rc == 0) { - rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(rootgrp, *group, create); + rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(rootgrp, *group, create, 0); if (rc != 0) virCgroupFree(group); } @@ -703,7 +748,17 @@ int virCgroupForDomain(virCgroupPtr driver, VIR_FREE(path); if (rc == 0) { - rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(driver, *group, create); + /* + * Create a cgroup with memory.use_hierarchy enabled to + * surely account memory usage of lxc with ns subsystem + * enabled. (To be exact, memory and ns subsystems are + * enabled at the same time.) + * + * The reason why doing it here, not a upper group, say + * a group for driver, is to avoid overhead to track + * cumulative usage that we don't need. + */ + rc = virCgroupMakeGroup(driver, *group, create, 1); if (rc != 0) virCgroupFree(group); } -- 1.6.5.2