[GitHub] [mesos] cf-natali commented on a change in pull request #355: Handle EBUSY when destroying a cgroup.

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cf-natali commented on a change in pull request #355: Handle EBUSY when destroying a cgroup.
URL: https://github.com/apache/mesos/pull/355#discussion_r401705020
 
 

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 File path: src/linux/cgroups.cpp
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 @@ -696,13 +696,24 @@ Try<Nothing> remove(const string& hierarchy, const string& cgroup)
   string path = path::join(hierarchy, cgroup);
 
   // Do NOT recursively remove cgroups.
-  Try<Nothing> rmdir = os::rmdir(path, false);
-  if (rmdir.isError()) {
-    return Error(
+  // TODO The retry was added as a fix for kernel bug
+  // https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/15/1349
+  // where calling rmdir on a seemingly empty cgroup can fail
+  // with EBUSY while some tasks are exiting.
+  auto delay = Milliseconds(1);
+  for (auto retry = 10; ;) {
+    Try<Nothing> rmdir = os::rmdir(path, false);
+    if (!rmdir.isError()) {
+      return rmdir;
+    } else if (retry > 0) {
+      os::sleep(delay);
 
 Review comment:
   There is at least another code path which calls `cgroup::remove` - when the freezer subsystem isn't available: https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/f8a3dd334934094ec44e07fa350f958d218bc78f/src/linux/cgroups.cpp#L1596
   
   Also it seems that `cgroup::mount` has a similar hack: https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/f8a3dd334934094ec44e07fa350f958d218bc78f/src/linux/cgroups.cpp#L575
   
   It returns a future but can block retrying?
   
   So unless you feel strongly about it maybe best to keep it there, since failing to remove a cgroup is pretty much a fatal error?
   
   Also do you have a suggestion for this - I agree we should check for EBUSY, I'm not sure how to do it :).
   
   > > Should we retry only if ::rmdir() returns EBUSY errno error?
   > 
   > Definitely - I wanted to do that but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it: is there a way to access errno from Try<Nothing> rmdir or can I just assume that the global errno is preserved and access it directly?
   

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