There is a relation between the maximum number of vCPUs and the
memory footprint, if QEMU maxcpus option and kernel nr_cpus
cmdline argument are big, then memory footprint is big, this
issue only occurs if CPU hotplug support is enabled in the kernel,
might be because of kernel needs to allocate resources to watch all
sockets waiting for a CPU to be connected (ACPI event).
For example
```
+---------------+-------------------------+
| | Memory Footprint (KB) |
+---------------+-------------------------+
| NR_CPUS=240 | 186501 |
+---------------+-------------------------+
| NR_CPUS=8 | 110684 |
+---------------+-------------------------+
```
In order to do not affect CPU hotplug and allow to users to have containers
with the same number of physical CPUs, this patch tries to mitigate the
big memory footprint by using the actual number of physical CPUs as the
maximum number of vCPUs for each container if `default_maxvcpus` is <= 0 in
the runtime configuration file, otherwise `default_maxvcpus` is used as the
maximum number of vCPUs.
Before this patch a container with 256MB of RAM
```
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 195M 40M 113M 26M 41M 112M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
```
With this patch
```
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 236M 11M 188M 26M 36M 186M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
```
fixes#295
Signed-off-by: Julio Montes <julio.montes@intel.com>
Fixes#50
This is done for decoupling device management part from other parts.
It seperate device.go to several dirs and files:
```
virtcontainers/device
├── api
│ └── interface.go
├── config
│ └── config.go
├── drivers
│ ├── block.go
│ ├── generic.go
│ ├── utils.go
│ ├── vfio.go
│ ├── vhost_user_blk.go
│ ├── vhost_user.go
│ ├── vhost_user_net.go
│ └── vhost_user_scsi.go
└── manager
├── manager.go
└── utils.go
```
* `api` contains interface definition of device management, so upper level caller
should import and use the interface, and lower level should implement the interface.
it's bridge to device drivers and callers.
* `config` contains structed exported data.
* `drivers` contains specific device drivers including block, vfio and vhost user
devices.
* `manager` exposes an external management package with a `DeviceManager`.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wei <zhangwei555@huawei.com>
Pass the slot address while attaching bridges. This is needed
to determine the pci/e address of devices that are attached
to the bridge.
Fixes#210
Signed-off-by: Archana Shinde <archana.m.shinde@intel.com>
When imported, the vc files carried in the 'full style' apache
license text, but the standard for kata is to use SPDX style.
Update the relevant files to SPDX.
Fixes: #227
Signed-off-by: Graham whaley <graham.whaley@intel.com>
As agreed in [the kata containers API
design](https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/blob/master/design/kata-api-design.md),
we need to rename pod notion to sandbox. The patch is a bit big but the
actual change is done through the script:
```
sed -i -e 's/pod/sandbox/g' -e 's/Pod/Sandbox/g' -e 's/POD/SB/g'
```
The only expections are `pod_sandbox` and `pod_container` annotations,
since we already pushed them to cri shims, we have to use them unchanged.
Fixes: #199
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Add a hypervisor configuration to specify if IO should
be handled in a separate thread. Add support for iothreads for
virtio-scsi for now. Since we attach all scsi drives to the
same scsi controller, all the drives will be handled in a separate
IO thread which would still give better performance.
Going forward we need to assess if adding more controllers and
attaching iothreasds to each of them with distributing drives
among teh scsi controllers should be done, based on more performance
analysis.
Signed-off-by: Archana Shinde <archana.m.shinde@intel.com>
This commit modifies version.yaml to now point to the qemu
2.11 stable version.
It modifies the default QEMU_CMD to be qemu-system-x86_64
instead of qemu-lite-system-x86_64.
And modifies virtcontainers unit tests to now point to the
correct QEMU_CMD.
Fixes: #118.
Signed-off-by: Salvador Fuentes <salvador.fuentes@intel.com>
