Time synchronization inside LCOW UVM #1119

ambarve · 2021-08-17T22:54:07Z

Currently LCOW UVM doesn't run any time synchronization service which causes a small amount of time lag after running the UVM for a long time (~10 days).

This change updates OpenGCS to start chronyd daemon as soon as gcs is started. It also adds a new annotation which can be used to disable this service inside the UVM.

ambarve · 2021-08-17T22:55:09Z

Do not merge this before we make the required changes to use the updated LCOW drop.

test/cri-containerd/runpodsandbox_test.go

internal/guest/commonutils/utilities.go

dcantah · 2021-08-18T20:01:48Z

internal/guest/commonutils/utilities.go

+	ptpDevPath := filepath.Join("/dev", filepath.Base(ptpDirPath))
+	chronydConfigString := fmt.Sprintf("refclock PHC %s poll 3 dpoll -2 offset 0\n", ptpDevPath)
+
+	chronydConfPath := "/tmp/chronyd.conf"


Might as well have this as a global const

That can hurt readability. If you're reading through code and see a global, you suddenly have to do extra work to figure out where it's being used. If it's only needed in this function then I would just keep it scoped to this function, though it could be moved to a const block in this function.

const in this function is fine with me. Global const in the communutils package might be a bit odd for this anyways, but truthfully maybe this entire function doesn't belong in communtils looking again

Oh you had the same feedback here haha #1119 (comment)

dcantah

lgtm!

internal/guest/commonutils/utilities.go

kevpar · 2021-08-18T20:07:38Z

internal/guest/commonutils/utilities.go

+		return errors.Wrap(err, "start chronyd command failed")
+	}
+	go func() {
+		waitErr := chronydCmd.Wait()


Do we need to handle cases like restarting this if it crashes or is OOM killed?

kevpar · 2021-08-18T20:08:32Z

Do not merge this before we make the required changes to use the updated LCOW drop.

In the future I think we can use a draft PR for cases like this.

kevpar · 2021-08-18T20:11:10Z

I wonder if there's any way we could run chronyd as a privileged infra container, and avoid needing to do this extra work in the gcs?

ambarve · 2021-10-26T04:48:35Z

@kevpar can you PTAL? (LCOW drop isn't ready yet but it would be good to get this ready to merge by the time we have it)

Changes to the opengcs to start the chronyd service after UVM boots. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Add test to verify both chronyd running & disabled cases. Minor fixes in chronyd startup code. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

cmd/gcs/main.go

kevpar · 2021-11-10T21:59:18Z

cmd/gcs/main.go

+		}
+		// Expected clock name is `hyperv` so read first 6 chars and verify the
+		// name
+		buf := make([]byte, len(expectedClockName))


Is hyperv the entire contents of the clock_name file? If so may be easier to just use ioutil.ReadFile here.

Yes. The file we are looking for has only "hyperv" in it. But we loop over a list of directories and check the contents of a file named clock_name in each of those. We don't know what are the contents of other files. Doing ioutil.ReadFile on such files could take too much time and/or memory for no reason. That's why I followed this approach.

This seems okay, though if there is ever a new clock device added with clock_name of hyperv_newdevicedontuse then we could break. Maybe we should check the file size is what we expect too?

My suggestion to use ioutil.ReadFile was based on an assumption that clock names are probably going to be short. If we think that's safe to rely on then we could still take this approach.

I have changed this to use ioutil.ReadFile now. There is a small catch though, we now must also look for a new line at the end of the clock name. I have updated the expectedClockName accordingly.

cmd/gcs/main.go

Minor other fixes. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

cmd/gcs/main.go

Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

kevpar

LGTM

cmd/gcs/main.go

Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

dcantah

LGTM

Related work items: microsoft#1067, microsoft#1097, microsoft#1119, microsoft#1170, microsoft#1176, microsoft#1180, microsoft#1181, microsoft#1182, microsoft#1183, microsoft#1184, microsoft#1185, microsoft#1186, microsoft#1187, microsoft#1188, microsoft#1189, microsoft#1191, microsoft#1193, microsoft#1194, microsoft#1195, microsoft#1196, microsoft#1197, microsoft#1200, microsoft#1201, microsoft#1202, microsoft#1203, microsoft#1204, microsoft#1205, microsoft#1206, microsoft#1207, microsoft#1209, microsoft#1210, microsoft#1211, microsoft#1218, microsoft#1219, microsoft#1220, microsoft#1223

Start time synchronization service in opengcs Changes to the opengcs to start the chronyd service after UVM boots. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * TimeSync service inside LCOW UVM. Add test to verify both chronyd running & disabled cases. Minor fixes in chronyd startup code. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Run Chronyd with restart monitor Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Force chronyd to step update time if difference is big Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Fixes after rebase Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * go mod vendor & tidy Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Use backoff package instead of manually calculating backoffs Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Rename gcs cmdline params, use io.ReadFull instead of io.Read Minor other fixes. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * go mod vendor Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Ignore err if file doesn't exist Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Use ioutil.ReadFile to read clock_name file Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * minor fix Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com> * Remove incorrect usage of backoff.MaxElapsedTime Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

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Start time synchronization service in opengcs

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Changes to the opengcs to start the chronyd service after UVM boots. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Add annotation to enable/disable Time synchronization service.

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TimeSync service inside LCOW UVM.

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Add test to verify both chronyd running & disabled cases. Minor fixes in chronyd startup code. Signed-off-by: Amit Barve <ambarve@microsoft.com>

Run Chronyd with restart monitor

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Force chronyd to step update time if difference is big

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Fixes after rebase

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Use backoff package instead of manually calculating backoffs

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Use ioutil.ReadFile to read clock_name file

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Time synchronization inside LCOW UVM #1119

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