01-container-mount-ns-and-kubelet-conf-master.yaml
01-container-mount-ns-and-kubelet-conf-worker.yaml
Before you can deploy virtual distributed unit (vDU) applications, you need to tune and configure the cluster host firmware and various other cluster configuration settings. Use the following information to validate the cluster configuration to support vDU workloads.
Use the following table as the basis to configure the cluster host firmware for vDU applications running on OKD 4.17.
The following table is a general recommendation for vDU cluster host firmware configuration. Exact firmware settings will depend on your requirements and specific hardware platform. Automatic setting of firmware is not handled by the zero touch provisioning pipeline. |
Firmware setting | Configuration | Description |
---|---|---|
HyperTransport (HT) |
Enabled |
HyperTransport (HT) bus is a bus technology developed by AMD. HT provides a high-speed link between the components in the host memory and other system peripherals. |
UEFI |
Enabled |
Enable booting from UEFI for the vDU host. |
CPU Power and Performance Policy |
Performance |
Set CPU Power and Performance Policy to optimize the system for performance over energy efficiency. |
Uncore Frequency Scaling |
Disabled |
Disable Uncore Frequency Scaling to prevent the voltage and frequency of non-core parts of the CPU from being set independently. |
Uncore Frequency |
Maximum |
Sets the non-core parts of the CPU such as cache and memory controller to their maximum possible frequency of operation. |
Performance P-limit |
Disabled |
Disable Performance P-limit to prevent the Uncore frequency coordination of processors. |
Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep Tech |
Enabled |
Enable Enhanced Intel SpeedStep to allow the system to dynamically adjust processor voltage and core frequency that decreases power consumption and heat production in the host. |
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology |
Enabled |
Enable Turbo Boost Technology for Intel-based CPUs to automatically allow processor cores to run faster than the rated operating frequency if they are operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits. |
Intel Configurable TDP |
Enabled |
Enables Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the CPU. |
Configurable TDP Level |
Level 2 |
TDP level sets the CPU power consumption required for a particular performance rating. TDP level 2 sets the CPU to the most stable performance level at the cost of power consumption. |
Energy Efficient Turbo |
Disabled |
Disable Energy Efficient Turbo to prevent the processor from using an energy-efficiency based policy. |
Hardware P-States |
Enabled or Disabled |
Enable OS-controlled P-States to allow power saving configurations. Disable |
Package C-State |
C0/C1 state |
Use C0 or C1 states to set the processor to a fully active state (C0) or to stop CPU internal clocks running in software (C1). |
C1E |
Disabled |
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) is a power saving feature in Intel chips. Disabling C1E prevents the operating system from sending a halt command to the CPU when inactive. |
Processor C6 |
Disabled |
C6 power-saving is a CPU feature that automatically disables idle CPU cores and cache. Disabling C6 improves system performance. |
Sub-NUMA Clustering |
Disabled |
Sub-NUMA clustering divides the processor cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains. Disabling this option can increase performance for latency-sensitive workloads. |
Enable global SR-IOV and VT-d settings in the firmware for the host. These settings are relevant to bare-metal environments. |
Enable both |
Clusters running virtualized distributed unit (vDU) applications require a highly tuned and optimized configuration. The following information describes the various elements that you require to support vDU workloads in OKD 4.17 clusters.
Check that the MachineConfig
custom resources (CRs) that you extract from the ztp-site-generate
container are applied in the cluster. The CRs can be found in the extracted out/source-crs/extra-manifest/
folder.
The following MachineConfig
CRs from the ztp-site-generate
container configure the cluster host:
MachineConfig CR | Description |
---|---|
|
Configures the container mount namespace and kubelet configuration. |
|
Loads the SCTP kernel module. These |
|
Configures kdump crash reporting for the cluster. |
|
Configures SR-IOV kernel arguments in the cluster. |
|
Disables |
|
Disables the automatic CRI-O cache wipe following cluster reboot. |
|
Configures the one-time check and adjustment of the system clock by the Chrony service. |
|
Enables the |
|
Enables cgroups v1 during cluster installation and when generating RHACM cluster policies. |
In OKD 4.14 and later, you configure workload partitioning with the |
The following Operators are required for clusters running virtualized distributed unit (vDU) applications and are a part of the baseline reference configuration:
Node Tuning Operator (NTO). NTO packages functionality that was previously delivered with the Performance Addon Operator, which is now a part of NTO.
PTP Operator
SR-IOV Network Operator
Red Hat OpenShift Logging Operator
Local Storage Operator
Always use the latest supported real-time kernel version in your cluster. Ensure that you apply the following configurations in the cluster:
Ensure that the following additionalKernelArgs
are set in the cluster performance profile:
apiVersion: performance.openshift.io/v2
kind: PerformanceProfile
# ...
spec:
additionalKernelArgs:
- "rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot=0"
- "efi=runtime"
- "vfio_pci.enable_sriov=1"
- "vfio_pci.disable_idle_d3=1"
- "module_blacklist=irdma"
# ...
Optional: Set the CPU frequency under the hardwareTuning
field:
You can use hardware tuning to tune CPU frequencies for reserved and isolated core CPUs. For FlexRAN like applications, hardware vendors recommend that you run CPU frequencies below the default provided frequencies. It is highly recommended that, before setting any frequencies, you refer to the hardware vendor’s guidelines for maximum frequency settings for your processor generation. This example shows the frequencies for reserved and isolated CPUs for Sapphire Rapid hardware:
apiVersion: performance.openshift.io/v2
kind: PerformanceProfile
metadata:
name: openshift-node-performance-profile
spec:
cpu:
isolated: "2-19,22-39"
reserved: "0-1,20-21"
hugepages:
defaultHugepagesSize: 1G
pages:
- size: 1G
count: 32
realTimeKernel:
enabled: true
hardwareTuning:
isolatedCpuFreq: 2500000
reservedCpuFreq: 2800000
Ensure that the performance-patch
profile in the Tuned
CR configures the correct CPU isolation set that matches the isolated
CPU set in the related PerformanceProfile
CR, for example:
apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1
kind: Tuned
metadata:
name: performance-patch
namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator
annotations:
ran.openshift.io/ztp-deploy-wave: "10"
spec:
profile:
- name: performance-patch
# The 'include' line must match the associated PerformanceProfile name, for example:
# include=openshift-node-performance-${PerformanceProfile.metadata.name}
# When using the standard (non-realtime) kernel, remove the kernel.timer_migration override from the [sysctl] section
data: |
[main]
summary=Configuration changes profile inherited from performance created tuned
include=openshift-node-performance-openshift-node-performance-profile
[scheduler]
group.ice-ptp=0:f:10:*:ice-ptp.*
group.ice-gnss=0:f:10:*:ice-gnss.*
group.ice-dplls=0:f:10:*:ice-dplls.*
[service]
service.stalld=start,enable
service.chronyd=stop,disable
# ...
Always use the latest version of the realtime kernel in your OKD clusters. If you are unsure about the kernel version that is in use in the cluster, you can compare the current realtime kernel version to the release version with the following procedure.
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc
).
You are logged in as a user with cluster-admin
privileges.
You have installed podman
.
Run the following command to get the cluster version:
$ OCP_VERSION=$(oc get clusterversion version -o jsonpath='{.status.desired.version}{"\n"}')
Get the release image SHA number:
$ DTK_IMAGE=$(oc adm release info --image-for=driver-toolkit quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:$OCP_VERSION-x86_64)
Run the release image container and extract the kernel version that is packaged with cluster’s current release:
$ podman run --rm $DTK_IMAGE rpm -qa | grep 'kernel-rt-core-' | sed 's#kernel-rt-core-##'
4.18.0-305.49.1.rt7.121.el8_4.x86_64
This is the default realtime kernel version that ships with the release.
The realtime kernel is denoted by the string |
Check that the kernel version listed for the cluster’s current release matches actual realtime kernel that is running in the cluster. Run the following commands to check the running realtime kernel version:
Open a remote shell connection to the cluster node:
$ oc debug node/<node_name>
Check the realtime kernel version:
sh-4.4# uname -r
4.18.0-305.49.1.rt7.121.el8_4.x86_64
You can check that clusters are running the correct configuration. The following procedure describes how to check the various configurations that you require to deploy a DU application in OKD 4.17 clusters.
You have deployed a cluster and tuned it for vDU workloads.
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc
).
You have logged in as a user with cluster-admin
privileges.
Check that the default OperatorHub sources are disabled. Run the following command:
$ oc get operatorhub cluster -o yaml
spec:
disableAllDefaultSources: true
Check that all required CatalogSource
resources are annotated for workload partitioning (PreferredDuringScheduling
) by running the following command:
$ oc get catalogsource -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{" -- "}{.metadata.annotations.target\.workload\.openshift\.io/management}{"\n"}{end}'
certified-operators -- {"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}
community-operators -- {"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}
ran-operators (1)
redhat-marketplace -- {"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}
redhat-operators -- {"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}
1 | CatalogSource resources that are not annotated are also returned. In this example, the ran-operators CatalogSource resource is not annotated and does not have the PreferredDuringScheduling annotation. |
In a properly configured vDU cluster, only a single annotated catalog source is listed. |
Check that all applicable OKD Operator namespaces are annotated for workload partitioning. This includes all Operators installed with core OKD and the set of additional Operators included in the reference DU tuning configuration. Run the following command:
$ oc get namespaces -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{" -- "}{.metadata.annotations.workload\.openshift\.io/allowed}{"\n"}{end}'
default --
openshift-apiserver -- management
openshift-apiserver-operator -- management
openshift-authentication -- management
openshift-authentication-operator -- management
Additional Operators must not be annotated for workload partitioning. In the output from the previous command, additional Operators should be listed without any value on the right side of the |
Check that the ClusterLogging
configuration is correct. Run the following commands:
Validate that the appropriate input and output logs are configured:
$ oc get -n openshift-logging ClusterLogForwarder instance -o yaml
apiVersion: logging.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterLogForwarder
metadata:
creationTimestamp: "2022-07-19T21:51:41Z"
generation: 1
name: instance
namespace: openshift-logging
resourceVersion: "1030342"
uid: 8c1a842d-80c5-447a-9150-40350bdf40f0
spec:
inputs:
- infrastructure: {}
name: infra-logs
outputs:
- name: kafka-open
type: kafka
url: tcp://10.46.55.190:9092/test
pipelines:
- inputRefs:
- audit
name: audit-logs
outputRefs:
- kafka-open
- inputRefs:
- infrastructure
name: infrastructure-logs
outputRefs:
- kafka-open
...
Check that the curation schedule is appropriate for your application:
$ oc get -n openshift-logging clusterloggings.logging.openshift.io instance -o yaml
apiVersion: logging.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterLogging
metadata:
creationTimestamp: "2022-07-07T18:22:56Z"
generation: 1
name: instance
namespace: openshift-logging
resourceVersion: "235796"
uid: ef67b9b8-0e65-4a10-88ff-ec06922ea796
spec:
collection:
logs:
fluentd: {}
type: fluentd
curation:
curator:
schedule: 30 3 * * *
type: curator
managementState: Managed
...
Check that the web console is disabled (managementState: Removed
) by running the following command:
$ oc get consoles.operator.openshift.io cluster -o jsonpath="{ .spec.managementState }"
Removed
Check that chronyd
is disabled on the cluster node by running the following commands:
$ oc debug node/<node_name>
Check the status of chronyd
on the node:
sh-4.4# chroot /host
sh-4.4# systemctl status chronyd
● chronyd.service - NTP client/server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:chronyd(8)
man:chrony.conf(5)
Check that the PTP interface is successfully synchronized to the primary clock using a remote shell connection to the linuxptp-daemon
container and the PTP Management Client (pmc
) tool:
Set the $PTP_POD_NAME
variable with the name of the linuxptp-daemon
pod by running the following command:
$ PTP_POD_NAME=$(oc get pods -n openshift-ptp -l app=linuxptp-daemon -o name)
Run the following command to check the sync status of the PTP device:
$ oc -n openshift-ptp rsh -c linuxptp-daemon-container ${PTP_POD_NAME} pmc -u -f /var/run/ptp4l.0.config -b 0 'GET PORT_DATA_SET'
sending: GET PORT_DATA_SET
3cecef.fffe.7a7020-1 seq 0 RESPONSE MANAGEMENT PORT_DATA_SET
portIdentity 3cecef.fffe.7a7020-1
portState SLAVE
logMinDelayReqInterval -4
peerMeanPathDelay 0
logAnnounceInterval 1
announceReceiptTimeout 3
logSyncInterval 0
delayMechanism 1
logMinPdelayReqInterval 0
versionNumber 2
3cecef.fffe.7a7020-2 seq 0 RESPONSE MANAGEMENT PORT_DATA_SET
portIdentity 3cecef.fffe.7a7020-2
portState LISTENING
logMinDelayReqInterval 0
peerMeanPathDelay 0
logAnnounceInterval 1
announceReceiptTimeout 3
logSyncInterval 0
delayMechanism 1
logMinPdelayReqInterval 0
versionNumber 2
Run the following pmc
command to check the PTP clock status:
$ oc -n openshift-ptp rsh -c linuxptp-daemon-container ${PTP_POD_NAME} pmc -u -f /var/run/ptp4l.0.config -b 0 'GET TIME_STATUS_NP'
sending: GET TIME_STATUS_NP
3cecef.fffe.7a7020-0 seq 0 RESPONSE MANAGEMENT TIME_STATUS_NP
master_offset 10 (1)
ingress_time 1657275432697400530
cumulativeScaledRateOffset +0.000000000
scaledLastGmPhaseChange 0
gmTimeBaseIndicator 0
lastGmPhaseChange 0x0000'0000000000000000.0000
gmPresent true (2)
gmIdentity 3c2c30.ffff.670e00
1 | master_offset should be between -100 and 100 ns. |
2 | Indicates that the PTP clock is synchronized to a master, and the local clock is not the grandmaster clock. |
Check that the expected master offset
value corresponding to the value in /var/run/ptp4l.0.config
is found in the linuxptp-daemon-container
log:
$ oc logs $PTP_POD_NAME -n openshift-ptp -c linuxptp-daemon-container
phc2sys[56020.341]: [ptp4l.1.config] CLOCK_REALTIME phc offset -1731092 s2 freq -1546242 delay 497
ptp4l[56020.390]: [ptp4l.1.config] master offset -2 s2 freq -5863 path delay 541
ptp4l[56020.390]: [ptp4l.0.config] master offset -8 s2 freq -10699 path delay 533
Check that the SR-IOV configuration is correct by running the following commands:
Check that the disableDrain
value in the SriovOperatorConfig
resource is set to true
:
$ oc get sriovoperatorconfig -n openshift-sriov-network-operator default -o jsonpath="{.spec.disableDrain}{'\n'}"
true
Check that the SriovNetworkNodeState
sync status is Succeeded
by running the following command:
$ oc get SriovNetworkNodeStates -n openshift-sriov-network-operator -o jsonpath="{.items[*].status.syncStatus}{'\n'}"
Succeeded
Verify that the expected number and configuration of virtual functions (Vfs
) under each interface configured for SR-IOV is present and correct in the .status.interfaces
field. For example:
$ oc get SriovNetworkNodeStates -n openshift-sriov-network-operator -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
items:
- apiVersion: sriovnetwork.openshift.io/v1
kind: SriovNetworkNodeState
...
status:
interfaces:
...
- Vfs:
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.0
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 0
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.1
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 1
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.2
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 2
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.3
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 3
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.4
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 4
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.5
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 5
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.6
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 6
- deviceID: 154c
driver: vfio-pci
pciAddress: 0000:3b:0a.7
vendor: "8086"
vfID: 7
Check that the cluster performance profile is correct. The cpu
and hugepages
sections will vary depending on your hardware configuration. Run the following command:
$ oc get PerformanceProfile openshift-node-performance-profile -o yaml
apiVersion: performance.openshift.io/v2
kind: PerformanceProfile
metadata:
creationTimestamp: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
finalizers:
- foreground-deletion
generation: 1
name: openshift-node-performance-profile
resourceVersion: "33558"
uid: 217958c0-9122-4c62-9d4d-fdc27c31118c
spec:
additionalKernelArgs:
- idle=poll
- rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot=0
- efi=runtime
cpu:
isolated: 2-51,54-103
reserved: 0-1,52-53
hugepages:
defaultHugepagesSize: 1G
pages:
- count: 32
size: 1G
machineConfigPoolSelector:
pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/master: ""
net:
userLevelNetworking: true
nodeSelector:
node-role.kubernetes.io/master: ""
numa:
topologyPolicy: restricted
realTimeKernel:
enabled: true
status:
conditions:
- lastHeartbeatTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
lastTransitionTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
status: "True"
type: Available
- lastHeartbeatTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
lastTransitionTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
status: "True"
type: Upgradeable
- lastHeartbeatTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
lastTransitionTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
status: "False"
type: Progressing
- lastHeartbeatTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
lastTransitionTime: "2022-07-19T21:51:31Z"
status: "False"
type: Degraded
runtimeClass: performance-openshift-node-performance-profile
tuned: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator/openshift-node-performance-openshift-node-performance-profile
CPU settings are dependent on the number of cores available on the server and should align with workload partitioning settings. |
Check that the PerformanceProfile
was successfully applied to the cluster by running the following command:
$ oc get performanceprofile openshift-node-performance-profile -o jsonpath="{range .status.conditions[*]}{ @.type }{' -- '}{@.status}{'\n'}{end}"
Available -- True
Upgradeable -- True
Progressing -- False
Degraded -- False
Check the Tuned
performance patch settings by running the following command:
$ oc get tuneds.tuned.openshift.io -n openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator performance-patch -o yaml
apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1
kind: Tuned
metadata:
creationTimestamp: "2022-07-18T10:33:52Z"
generation: 1
name: performance-patch
namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator
resourceVersion: "34024"
uid: f9799811-f744-4179-bf00-32d4436c08fd
spec:
profile:
- data: |
[main]
summary=Configuration changes profile inherited from performance created tuned
include=openshift-node-performance-openshift-node-performance-profile
[bootloader]
cmdline_crash=nohz_full=2-23,26-47 (1)
[sysctl]
kernel.timer_migration=1
[scheduler]
group.ice-ptp=0:f:10:*:ice-ptp.*
[service]
service.stalld=start,enable
service.chronyd=stop,disable
name: performance-patch
recommend:
- machineConfigLabels:
machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: master
priority: 19
profile: performance-patch
1 | The cpu list in cmdline=nohz_full= will vary based on your hardware configuration. |
Check that cluster networking diagnostics are disabled by running the following command:
$ oc get networks.operator.openshift.io cluster -o jsonpath='{.spec.disableNetworkDiagnostics}'
true
Check that the Kubelet
housekeeping interval is tuned to slower rate. This is set in the containerMountNS
machine config. Run the following command:
$ oc describe machineconfig container-mount-namespace-and-kubelet-conf-master | grep OPENSHIFT_MAX_HOUSEKEEPING_INTERVAL_DURATION
Environment="OPENSHIFT_MAX_HOUSEKEEPING_INTERVAL_DURATION=60s"
Check that Grafana and alertManagerMain
are disabled and that the Prometheus retention period is set to 24h by running the following command:
$ oc get configmap cluster-monitoring-config -n openshift-monitoring -o jsonpath="{ .data.config\.yaml }"
grafana:
enabled: false
alertmanagerMain:
enabled: false
prometheusK8s:
retention: 24h
Use the following commands to verify that Grafana and alertManagerMain
routes are not found in the cluster:
$ oc get route -n openshift-monitoring alertmanager-main
$ oc get route -n openshift-monitoring grafana
Both queries should return Error from server (NotFound)
messages.
Check that there is a minimum of 4 CPUs allocated as reserved
for each of the PerformanceProfile
, Tuned
performance-patch, workload partitioning, and kernel command line arguments by running the following command:
$ oc get performanceprofile -o jsonpath="{ .items[0].spec.cpu.reserved }"
0-3
Depending on your workload requirements, you might require additional reserved CPUs to be allocated. |