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return nil, err } si := &serviceInfo{ <ins> isAliveAtomic:       1, </ins> proxyPort:           portNum, protocol:            protocol, socket:              sock,

Discussion:
By looking why sometime my sites magicaly slow down for a short period of time I got that : each 5 seconds dns query are jumping from < 2 ms to that . until [[ 0 -eq 1 ]]; do dig mysql-change | grep -E "time: [0-9]{3,}" && date; done ; Query time: 2187 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:31 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2114 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:36 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1890 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:41 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1874 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:46 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1930 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:51 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1942 msec Wed Jul 29 13:39:56 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2350 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:01 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2469 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:06 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1898 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:11 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2083 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:16 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2110 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:21 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1921 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:26 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2023 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:31 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1836 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:36 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2182 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:41 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2079 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:46 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2066 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:51 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1905 msec Wed Jul 29 13:40:56 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 1999 msec Wed Jul 29 13:41:01 UTC 2015 ;

Query time: 1855 msec Wed Jul 29 13:41:06 UTC 2015 ; Query time: 2043 msec Wed Jul 29 13:41:11 UTC 2015 But it's not over, curl on ip gives me that : until [[ 0 -eq 1 ]]; do curl -I 10.0.126.115:9200 -s -w '%{time_total}' -o /dev/null | grep -E "^[1-9]" && date; done 083 Wed Jul 29 13:50:16 UTC 2015 247 Wed Jul 29 13:50:21 UTC 2015 874 Wed Jul 29 13:50:26 UTC 2015 019 Wed Jul 29 13:50:31 UTC 2015 006 Wed Jul 29 13:50:36 UTC 2015 718 Wed Jul 29 13:50:41 UTC 2015 954 Wed Jul 29 13:50:46 UTC 2015 065 Wed Jul 29 13:50:51 UTC 2015 896 Wed Jul 29 13:50:56 UTC 2015 968 Wed Jul 29 13:51:01 UTC 2015 556 Wed Jul 29 13:51:05 UTC 2015 There is something wrong in the way kube-proxy is working/updating. It's a real source of troubles on my side.
With further analysis anything run good on docker part, checking directly the virtual ip address of docker pod always return in time! checked on coreos and default kubernetes debian image.
Open question : Why using iptables to handle alone the inter-cluster communication instead of routing? each pod has it's own ip, it doesn't suffer from iptables refresh slowness, as well as missing rule. Nodes forwarding work great and on gce, it's ok to do so. Skydns might handle pod ip as RR dns A record and all that mess will run smoother. Currently I do have dbs with replication, php with some dependancies to other pods, so you can easily understand how high I'm dependant to a clean and really fast network.

I've got ~150 services wich lead to 2s with complete network stale, with 375 services it would take the whole refresh loop, and with more services what would happens? I've got the feeling that generating a complete ipfile and injecting with iprestore will do less harm. It's somehow important that kube team is looking at that. Production ready isn't really true on my case.
There is not enough information here to properly address your issue. What Kubernetes version, what OS, what cloud, how did you do setup, what network overlay if any, etc. Running on my own cluster, for example: and
you're not running enough samples, to be sure to have a least one pass on kube-proxy refresh. You'll have to run more than 5000 loops. That's why I filtered on time 1s. Good points on DNS RR. But it's the easiest way to handle multiple endpoints while real balancing is WIP. So I'm on a full 1.0.1 cluster with 1 master, 12 nodes : 11 coreos, 1 debian. The gce nodes are all on same power : n1-highmem-2. The installation is from a kube-up on release 1.0.1 package. 2 Modifications has been made on kubelet pkg to fit my need : a relocation of safeformatand_mount shell script and a safe parameter on iptables (-w switch) and that's all for coreos. The debian node is full stock, "only" there to perform debug tasks and analysis as I send here. The debian master is full stock too except the installation of ... htop . The tests provided is from the debian node, as I know it is the main OS. I've got: 104 pods (2 kubedns pods) 102 rc 101 svc 19 namespaces 17 external lb. No overlays , nothing special, I stood as close as possible to upstream, even on the coreos installation. We are not live now, so I still have time to debug anything you want and test whatever would make differences.
We know kube-proxy has a long-tail problem, but it's not usually multi-second. See the "histogram" below. Your point about doing iptables-restore in one shot is taken. root for i in $(seq 1 );

do curl -Ik https://kubernetes.default -s -w '%{timetotal}' -o /dev/null; echo; done | sort | uniq -c 171 0.014 0.015 0.016 0.017 9367 0.018 4064 0.019 2361 0.020 1163 0.021 691 0.022 564 0.023 1097 0.024 981 0.025 2267 0.026 725 0.027 351 0.028 175 0.029 98 0.030 75 0.031 55 0.032 47 0.033 95 0.034 204 0.035 275 0.036 98 0.037 33 0.038 55 0.039 229 0.040 183 0.041 100 0.042 37 0.043 30 0.044 35 0.045 32 0.046 16 0.047 14 0.048 6 0.049 14 0.050 16 0.051 9 0.052 18 0.053 16 0.054 14 0.055 7 0.056 14 0.057 10 0.058 6 0.059 12 0.060 10 0.061 7 0.062 9 0.063 11 0.064 8 0.065 8 0.066 6 0.067 17 0.068 6 0.069 5 0.070 5 0.071 26 0.072 29 0.073 16 0.074 7 0.075 8 0.076 7 0.077 4 0.078 2 0.079 3 0.080 1 0.081 2 0.082 1 0.085 1 0.086 3 0.091 4 0.092 1 0.094 2 0.095 4 0.096 1 0.099 1 0.

102 1 0.104 1 0.107 2 0.108 1 0.111 1 0.115 2 0.119 2 0.129 1 0.138 1 0.141 1 0.142 2 0.143 4 0.144 3 0.145 6 0.146 3 0.147 8 0.148 12 0.149 25 0.150 24 0.151 26 0.152 28 0.153 37 0.154 33 0.155 36 0.156 36 0.157 34 0.158 30 0.159 40 0.160 25 0.161 32 0.162 29 0.163 35 0.164 22 0.165 17 0.166 17 0.167 16 0.168 14 0.169 17 0.170 11 0.171 11 0.172 9 0.173 8 0.174 8 0.175 6 0.176 8 0.177 5 0.178 6 0.179 3 0.180 7 0.181 5 0.182 6 0.183 4 0.184 3 0.185 3 0.186 3 0.187 4 0.188 3 0.189 1 0.190 1 0.191 2 0.192 1 0.193 1 0.194 1 0.196 2 0.197 2 0.198 1 0.201 1 0.203 1 0.204 1 0.205 1 0.211 2 0.216 1 0.222 1 0.224 1 0.225 1 0.361 1 0.373 2 0.374 1 0.378 1 0.379 1 0.381 1 0.383 1 0.388 1 0.

389 2 0.391 1 0.960 , bnprss wrote:
I was thinking more on iptables-restore, and I don't really see how to use it safely. There's no compare-and-swap optimistic concurrency mode and there's no way I can see to load just a single chain - only whole tables. This makes it very awkward to use for our "check if it exists and if not add it" mode, especially if anyone else is using the NAT table. Consider: kube-proxy reads state of -t nat kube-proxy iterates over state, checking for each rule it needs user modifies -t nat kube-proxy needs to make a change, replaces the -t nat section for just its own chain kube-proxy restores the state the user change is wiped out , Tim Hockin wrote:
I made some test, and I'm now sure: no traffic is handled at all while kube-proxy iptables loop, checked by logging on level 5 . I see three potential solutions : 1) keep the run whatever it cost Advantages: little changes Drawback: It will be a major problem with a lot of services, the check will take much more time than the syncloop allow. might be a huge CPU consummer 2) change the way kube-proxy check and insert rules step one : iptables-save step two : check rule existance step three : iptables inclusion of missing rule (like it does right now) Advantages: limit the rate of external program call, do the thing safely and keep custom rules by not using iptables-restore. I guess there will be some perf improvement by just parsing/checking one file. Drawback: none? 3) use external tool I've got in mind haproxy Advantages: All logic in the roadmap (and more) is allready implemented and well tested. Performance is really good. Drawback: dynamic inclustion/deletion of things must trig a reload of a map file... Network transaction shouldn't be stop anytime in the kube-proxy process.
I'll post the following PR that cover the 1st case : time to check : for i in $(seq 1 ); do curl -Ik 10.0.249.163 -s -w '%{time_total}' -o /dev/null; echo;

done uniq -c With the PR and ~420 netfilter rules to check I get the following histogram (100 000 samples is a long run :) ): 6370 0.008 0.009 0.010 6803 0.011 2961 0.012 1593 0.013 1418 0.014 2506 0.015 3225 0.016 3621 0.017 3558 0.018 2965 0.019 2627 0.020 2544 0.021 2167 0.022 1499 0.023 1051 0.024 779 0.025 542 0.026 395 0.027 253 0.028 205 0.029 144 0.030 113 0.031 77 0.032 76 0.033 64 0.034 59 0.035 45 0.036 44 0.037 43 0.038 34 0.039 20 0.040 28 0.041 16 0.042 18 0.043 16 0.044 16 0.045 13 0.046 10 0.047 12 0.048 8 0.049 14 0.050 9 0.051 9 0.052 4 0.053 5 0.054 7 0.055 8 0.056 5 0.057 10 0.058 7 0.059 5 0.060 9 0.061 5 0.062 4 0.063 4 0.064 3 0.065 3 0.066 6 0.067 5 0.068 5 0.069 3 0.070 8 0.071 6 0.072 3 0.073 4 0.074 7 0.075 1 0.076 4 0.077 5 0.078 5 0.079 1 0.080 4 0.081 4 0.082 4 0.083 4 0.

084 5 0.085 3 0.086 3 0.088 3 0.089 4 0.090 3 0.092 2 0.093 4 0.094 3 0.095 6 0.096 4 0.097 1 0.098 4 0.100 1 0.101 1 0.102 2 0.103 1 0.104 2 0.105 1 0.106 3 0.107 2 0.108 2 0.109 1 0.110 1 0.111 1 0.113 4 0.114 3 0.115 1 0.118 2 0.119 1 0.122 1 0.124 1 0.125 1 0.126 1 0.127 2 0.128 3 0.131 2 0.132 1 0.134 1 0.135 3 0.136 1 0.138 1 0.142 2 0.144 1 0.145 1 0.146 2 0.150 1 0.151 1 0.156 1 0.162 1 0.170 1 0.172 2 0.173 1 0.177 1 0.179 1 0.180 1 0.181 1 0.184 1 0.186 1 0.198 1 0.201 1 0.202 1 0.206 1 0.211 1 0.215 3 0.219 1 0.234 2 0.237 1 0.238 1 0.240 1 0.243 1 0.249 2 0.256 1 0.260 1 0.263 1 0.266 1 0.268 1 0.271 1 0.275 1 0.290 1 0.301 1 0.303 1 0.313 1 0.

322 1 0.327 1 0.336 1 0.369 1 0.374 1 0.381 1 0.463 1 0.492 1 0.493 1 0.504 1 0.567 1 0.681 Without the PR and 5000 samples : 959 0.008 2333 0.009 816 0.010 267 0.011 143 0.012 102 0.013 75 0.014 84 0.015 37 0.016 31 0.017 33 0.018 18 0.019 10 0.020 15 0.021 8 0.022 11 0.023 6 0.024 6 0.025 3 0.026 3 0.027 2 0.028 1 0.030 2 0.031 1 0.032 1 0.033 2 0.034 2 0.035 2 0.036 1 0.037 2 0.038 1 0.042 1 0.043 1 0.045 1 0.046 1 0.057 1 0.075 1 1.386 1 1.392 1 1.394 1 1.420 1 1.439 1 1.454 1 1.466 1 1.467 1 1.484 1 1.503 1 1.513 1 1.514 1 1.519 1 1.520 1 1.532 1 1.539 1 1.548 1 1.691 Low number of curl 1s due to checks running in seq. By the way, the time to complete the run will be a good indicator.
So the real issue is that ProxyLoop() calls proxier.getServiceInfo(), which takes the mutex. This is an excellent point, thanks for raising it. I think that the algorithm we're discussing in the other thread will mitigate the problem mostly, but it's still not a great design overall.

A better design would be store an atomic value in the ServiceInfo struct and simply check that value in each ProxyLoop(). I'm going to re-title this bug to reflect the problem , bnprss wrote:
It is really a simple ugly workaround focused on the big loop that takes ages to complete, I agree with that. And I assume it's mitigation role. My knowledge of go wont't help for your proposal, as you might have understood, it was the first time I code in that language and as a SysAdmin my skills are also limited in development tasks. So I can't handle such logic changes in an efficient way. Could you take care of it?
I'll see if I can throw something together. Do you want me to take over the lock mitigation too, or do you want to do that? It should be a relatively simple change given that you already found the place to do that.
No, it will be ok for the lock mitigation I figured out why red light cames from shippable and travis. And will comment on the PR. Thank you for taking care of the mid term solution.