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t.Errorf("Expected binder %q but got %q", expectedBinderType, binderType) } } <ins> func TestNodeAllocatableChanged(t *testing.T) { newQuantity := func(value int64) resource.Quantity { return *resource.NewQuantity(value, resource.BinarySI) } for _, c := range []struct { Changed        bool OldAllocatable v1.ResourceList NewAllocatable v1.ResourceList }{ // No allocatable resources changed. { Changed:        false, OldAllocatable: v1.ResourceList{v1.ResourceMemory: newQuantity(1024)}, NewAllocatable: v1.ResourceList{v1.ResourceMemory: newQuantity(1024)}, }, // New node has more allocatable resources. { Changed:        true, OldAllocatable: v1.ResourceList{v1.ResourceMemory: newQuantity(1024)}, NewAllocatable: v1.ResourceList{v1.ResourceMemory: newQuantity(1024), v1.ResourceStorage: newQuantity(1024)}, }, } { oldNode := &v1.Node{Status: v1.NodeStatus{Allocatable: c.OldAllocatable}} newNode := &v1.Node{Status: v1.NodeStatus{Allocatable: c.NewAllocatable}} changed := nodeAllocatableChanged(newNode, oldNode) if changed != c.Changed { t.Errorf("nodeAllocatableChanged should be %t, got %t", c.Changed, changed) } } } func TestNodeLabelsChanged(t *testing.T) { for _, c := range []struct { Changed   bool OldLabels map[string]string NewLabels map[string]string }{ // No labels changed. {Changed: false, OldLabels: map[string]string{"foo": "bar"}, NewLabels: map[string]string{"foo": "bar"}}, // Labels changed. {Changed: true, OldLabels: map[string]string{"foo": "bar"}, NewLabels: map[string]string{"foo": "bar", "test": "value"}}, } { oldNode := &v1.Node{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Labels: c.OldLabels}} newNode := &v1.Node{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Labels: c.NewLabels}} changed := nodeLabelsChanged(newNode, oldNode) if changed != c.Changed { t.Errorf("nodeLabelsChanged should be %t, got %t", c.Changed, changed) } } } func TestNodeTaintsChanged(t *testing.T) { for _, c := range []struct { Changed        bool OldTaints      []v1.Taint NewTaints      []v1.Taint OldAnnotations map[string]string NewAnnotations map[string]string }{ // Taints use annotation and no change. { Changed:        false, OldAnnotations: map[string]string{core.TaintsAnnotationKey: `[{"key":"value"}]`}, NewAnnotations: map[string]string{core.TaintsAnnotationKey: `[{"key":"value"}]`}, }, // Taints use annotation and changed. { Changed:        true, OldAnnotations: map[string]string{core.TaintsAnnotationKey: `[{"key":"value1"}]`}, NewAnnotations: map[string]string{core.TaintsAnnotationKey: `[{"key":"value2"}]`}, }, // Taints use Spec.Taints and no change. { Changed:   false, OldTaints: []v1.Taint{{Key: "key", Value: "value"}}, NewTaints: []v1.Taint{{Key: "key", Value: "value"}}, }, // Taints use Spec.Taints and changed. { Changed:   true, OldTaints: []v1.Taint{{Key: "key", Value: "value1"}}, NewTaints: []v1.Taint{{Key: "key", Value: "value2"}}, }, } { oldNode := &v1.Node{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Annotations: c.OldAnnotations}, Spec: v1.NodeSpec{Taints: c.OldTaints}} newNode := &v1.Node{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Annotations: c.NewAnnotations}, Spec: v1.NodeSpec{Taints: c.NewTaints}} changed := nodeTaintsChanged(newNode, oldNode) if changed != c.Changed { t.Errorf("nodeTaintsChanged should be %t, not %t", c.Changed, changed) } } } func TestNodeConditionsChanged(t *testing.T) { for _, c := range []struct { Changed       bool OldConditions []v1.NodeCondition NewConditions []v1.NodeCondition }{ // No conditions changed. { Changed:       false, OldConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{{Type: v1.NodeOutOfDisk, Status: v1.ConditionTrue}}, NewConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{{Type: v1.NodeOutOfDisk, Status: v1.ConditionTrue}}, }, // New node has more healthy conditions. { Changed:       true, OldConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{}, NewConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{{Type: v1.NodeReady, Status: v1.ConditionTrue}}, }, // NodeReady False -> True { Changed:       true, OldConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{{Type: v1.NodeReady, Status: v1.ConditionFalse}}, NewConditions: []v1.NodeCondition{{Type: v1.NodeReady, Status: v1.ConditionTrue}}, }, } { oldNode := &v1.Node{Status: v1.NodeStatus{Conditions: c.OldConditions}} newNode := &v1.Node{Status: v1.NodeStatus{Conditions: c.NewConditions}} changed := nodeConditionsChanged(newNode, oldNode) if changed != c.Changed { t.Errorf("nodeConditionsChanged should be %t, got %t", c.Changed, changed) } } } </ins>

Discussion:
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I can help to fix it. /assign mlmhl
The main reason for this problem is / update their status too frequently and most of these updates are heartbeats without any meaningful change. Recently sig-node introduces a new to alleviate this problem. With this mechanism, kubelet will split heartbeat and node status updates into two independent operations, and reduce the frequency of status updates to once per 1 minute(or more). In the long run this mechanism can indeed alleviate our problems, but at present it does not help us much as this is still an alpha feature and the node status updates frequency is still a bit high(per 1 minute right now).
Maybe we can try comparing old and new nodes after stripping their heartbeat info, like this:
I think that had sent earlier is more efficient. However, that PR does not filter out . In Wei's code, the heartbeat time is removed correctly. I think we should fix this issue and resubmit that PR.
could you resubmit a PR to: disregard in conditions comparison: and (optionally) disregard timestamp in taints comparison:
Thanks for all your advice, a new PR is submitted: This PR does not include your second suggestion(disregard timestamp in taints comparison) as I'm not sure if can be changed when node updating.

If it can be changed, I will add this filter later, otherwise I think we can keep the current implementation to make the compare operation simpler and faster. What's more, just as I said in the PR's description, I'm not sure how much side effects this change has on scheduler's resource consumption, as it always copy node's conditions before comparison.
I am thinking whether we could move this logic(whether node became more schedulable) to kubelet, kubelet reports it through heartbeats.