From 6225cfd8b5aa5640151f823aae09d1d65f2556c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vallery Lancey <vallerylancey@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 20:42:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added explanation of non-preempting PriorityClasses to the
 "Pod Priority and Preemption" doc.

---
 .../configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md  | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)

diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md
index ef5cf9b6c3a18..dc8ec89740f32 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ when a cluster is under resource pressure. For this reason, it is not
 recommended to disable preemption.
 {{< /note >}}
 
+{{< note >}}
+In Kubernetes 1.15 and later,
+PriorityClasses have the option to set `preemptionPolicy: Never`.
+This will prevent pods of that PriorityClass from preempting other pods.
+{{< /note >}}
+
 In Kubernetes 1.11 and later, preemption is controlled by a kube-scheduler flag
 `disablePreemption`, which is set to `false` by default.
 If you want to disable preemption despite the above note, you can set
@@ -145,6 +151,47 @@ globalDefault: false
 description: "This priority class should be used for XYZ service pods only."
 ```
 
+### Non-preempting PriorityClasses (alpha)
+
+1.15 adds the `PreemptionPolicy` field as an alpha feature.
+It is disabled by default in 1.15,
+and requires the `PreemptionPolicy`[feature gate](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/feature-gates/
+) to be enabled.
+
+Pods with `PreemptionPolicy: Never` will be placed in the scheduling queue
+ahead of lower-priority pods,
+but they cannot preempt other pods.
+A non-preempting pod waiting to be scheduled will stay at the head of the
+scheduling queue, until sufficient resources are free,
+and it can be scheduled.
+Non-preempting pods may still be preempted themselves.
+
+`PreemptionPolicy` defaults to `PreemptLowerPriority`,
+which will allow pods of that PriorityClass to preempt lower-priority pods
+(as is existing default behavior).
+If `PreemptionPolicy` is set to `Never`,
+pods in that PriorityClass will be non-preempting.
+
+An example use case is for data science workloads.
+A user may submit a job that they want to be prioritized above other workloads,
+but do not wish to discard existing work by preempting running pods.
+The high priority job with `PreemptionPolicy: Never` will be scheduled
+ahead of other queued pods,
+as soon as sufficient cluster resources "naturally" become free.
+
+#### Example Non-preempting PriorityClass
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: scheduling.k8s.io/v1
+kind: PriorityClass
+metadata:
+  name: high-priority-nonpreempting
+value: 1000000
+preemptionPolicy: Never
+globalDefault: false
+description: "This priority class will not cause other pods to be preempted."
+```
+
 ## Pod priority
 
 After you have one or more PriorityClasses, you can create Pods that specify one