[PLAT-713] Allow the CFS period to be tuned for containers #1
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Kubernetes' inbuilt resource limits allow control over the maximum CPU bandwidth a container can consume. "Under the hood," this is achieved by setting
cpu.cfs_quota
on a container's cgroup. We have been setting these limits for most of our deployments, and they are effective at preventing "greedy" containers from negatively impacting the performance of other co-located containers 👮However, when a container gets throttled, it is unable to run on the CPU again until the end of the "throttling period." (See golang/go#19378.) The length of this period is controlled by the
cpu. cfs_period_us
parameter and is currently set statically to 100ms. Services on the "serving path" tend to be very latency sensitive – effectively being paused for 100ms is extremely detrimental to performance and can lead to very high tail latencies.This change makes this period configurable by way of a
monzo.com/cpu-period
parameter in a container's resource limits, specified in microseconds.