Estimate width of the request based on watchers count in P&F

staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go

@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ func DefaultBuildHandlerChain(apiHandler http.Handler, c *Config) http.Handler {
 	handler = filterlatency.TrackStarted(handler, "authorization")
 
 	if c.FlowControl != nil {
-		requestWorkEstimator := flowcontrolrequest.NewWorkEstimator(c.StorageObjectCountTracker.Get)
+		requestWorkEstimator := flowcontrolrequest.NewWorkEstimator(c.StorageObjectCountTracker.Get, c.FlowControl.GetInterestedWatchCount)
 		handler = filterlatency.TrackCompleted(handler)
 		handler = genericfilters.WithPriorityAndFairness(handler, c.LongRunningFunc, c.FlowControl, requestWorkEstimator)
 		handler = filterlatency.TrackStarted(handler, "priorityandfairness")

staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/flowcontrol/request/mutating_work_estimator.go

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2021 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package request
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+
+	apirequest "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/request"
+)
+
+func newMutatingWorkEstimator(countFn watchCountGetterFunc) WorkEstimatorFunc {
+	estimator := &mutatingWorkEstimator{
+		countFn: countFn,
+	}
+	return estimator.estimate
+}
+
+type mutatingWorkEstimator struct {
+	countFn watchCountGetterFunc
+}
+
+const (
+	watchesPerSeat          = 10.0
+	eventAdditionalDuration = 5 * time.Millisecond
+)
+
+func (e *mutatingWorkEstimator) estimate(r *http.Request) WorkEstimate {
+	requestInfo, ok := apirequest.RequestInfoFrom(r.Context())
+	if !ok {
+		// no RequestInfo should never happen, but to be on the safe side
+		// let's return a large value.
+		return WorkEstimate{
+			InitialSeats:      1,
+			FinalSeats:        maximumSeats,
+			AdditionalLatency: eventAdditionalDuration,
+		}
+	}
+
+	watchCount := e.countFn(requestInfo)
+
+	// The cost of the request associated with the watchers of that event
+	// consists of three parts:
+	// - cost of going through the event change logic
+	// - cost of serialization of the event
+	// - cost of processing an event object for each watcher (e.g. filtering,
+	//     sending data over network)
+	// We're starting simple to get some operational experience with it and
+	// we will work on tuning the algorithm later. As a starting point we
+	// we simply assume that processing 1 event takes 1/Nth of a seat for
+	// M milliseconds and processing different events is infinitely parallelizable.
+	// We simply record the appropriate values here and rely on potential
+	// reshaping of the request if the concurrency limit for a given priority
+	// level will not allow to run request with that many seats.
+	//
+	// TODO: As described in the KEP, we should take into account that not all
+	//   events are equal and try to estimate the cost of a single event based on
+	//   some historical data about size of events.
+	var finalSeats uint
+	var additionalLatency time.Duration
+
+	// TODO: Make this unconditional after we tune the algorithm better.
+	//   Technically, there is an overhead connected to processing an event after
+	//   the request finishes even if there is a small number of watches.
+	//   However, until we tune the estimation we want to stay on the safe side
+	//   an avoid introducing additional latency for almost every single request.
+	if watchCount >= watchesPerSeat {
+		finalSeats = uint(math.Ceil(float64(watchCount) / watchesPerSeat))
+		additionalLatency = eventAdditionalDuration
+	}
+
+	return WorkEstimate{
+		InitialSeats:      1,
+		FinalSeats:        finalSeats,
+		AdditionalLatency: additionalLatency,
+	}
+}

staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/flowcontrol/request/width.go

@@ -65,12 +65,17 @@ func (we *WorkEstimate) MaxSeats() int {
 // number of objects for a given resource.
 type objectCountGetterFunc func(string) (int64, error)
 
+// watchCountGetterFunc represents a function that gets the total
+// number of watchers potentially interested in a given request.
+type watchCountGetterFunc func(*apirequest.RequestInfo) int
+
 // NewWorkEstimator estimates the work that will be done by a given request,
 // if no WorkEstimatorFunc matches the given request then the default
 // work estimate of 1 seat is allocated to the request.
-func NewWorkEstimator(countFn objectCountGetterFunc) WorkEstimatorFunc {
+func NewWorkEstimator(objectCountFn objectCountGetterFunc, watchCountFn watchCountGetterFunc) WorkEstimatorFunc {
 	estimator := &workEstimator{
-		listWorkEstimator: newListWorkEstimator(countFn),
+		listWorkEstimator:     newListWorkEstimator(objectCountFn),
+		mutatingWorkEstimator: newMutatingWorkEstimator(watchCountFn),
 	}
 	return estimator.estimate
 }
@@ -87,6 +92,8 @@ func (e WorkEstimatorFunc) EstimateWork(r *http.Request) WorkEstimate {
 type workEstimator struct {
 	// listWorkEstimator estimates work for list request(s)
 	listWorkEstimator WorkEstimatorFunc
+	// mutatingWorkEstimator calculates the width of mutating request(s)
+	mutatingWorkEstimator WorkEstimatorFunc
 }
 
 func (e *workEstimator) estimate(r *http.Request) WorkEstimate {
@@ -100,6 +107,8 @@ func (e *workEstimator) estimate(r *http.Request) WorkEstimate {
 	switch requestInfo.Verb {
 	case "list":
 		return e.listWorkEstimator.EstimateWork(r)
+	case "create", "update", "patch", "delete":
+		return e.mutatingWorkEstimator.EstimateWork(r)
 	}
 
 	return WorkEstimate{InitialSeats: minimumSeats}

staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/flowcontrol/request/width_test.go

@@ -20,18 +20,22 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"net/http"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	apirequest "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/request"
 )
 
 func TestWorkEstimator(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
-		name                 string
-		requestURI           string
-		requestInfo          *apirequest.RequestInfo
-		counts               map[string]int64
-		countErr             error
-		initialSeatsExpected uint
+		name                      string
+		requestURI                string
+		requestInfo               *apirequest.RequestInfo
+		counts                    map[string]int64
+		countErr                  error
+		watchCount                int
+		initialSeatsExpected      uint
+		finalSeatsExpected        uint
+		additionalLatencyExpected time.Duration
 	}{
 		{
 			name:                 "request has no RequestInfo",
@@ -248,6 +252,132 @@ func TestWorkEstimator(t *testing.T) {
 			countErr:             errors.New("unknown error"),
 			initialSeatsExpected: maximumSeats,
 		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is create, no watches",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "create",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        0,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is create, watches registered",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "create",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                29,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        3,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 5 * time.Millisecond,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is create, watches registered, no additional latency",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "create",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                5,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        0,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is create, watches registered, maximum is exceeded",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "create",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                199,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        20,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 5 * time.Millisecond,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is update, no watches",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "update",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        0,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is update, watches registered",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foor.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "update",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                29,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        3,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 5 * time.Millisecond,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is patch, no watches",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "patch",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        0,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is patch, watches registered",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "patch",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                29,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        3,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 5 * time.Millisecond,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is delete, no watches",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "delete",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        0,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "request verb is delete, watches registered",
+			requestURI: "http://server/apis/foo.bar/v1/foos/myfoo",
+			requestInfo: &apirequest.RequestInfo{
+				Verb:     "delete",
+				APIGroup: "foo.bar",
+				Resource: "foos",
+			},
+			watchCount:                29,
+			initialSeatsExpected:      1,
+			finalSeatsExpected:        3,
+			additionalLatencyExpected: 5 * time.Millisecond,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range tests {
@@ -259,7 +389,10 @@ func TestWorkEstimator(t *testing.T) {
 			countsFn := func(key string) (int64, error) {
 				return counts[key], test.countErr
 			}
-			estimator := NewWorkEstimator(countsFn)
+			watchCountsFn := func(_ *apirequest.RequestInfo) int {
+				return test.watchCount
+			}
+			estimator := NewWorkEstimator(countsFn, watchCountsFn)
 
 			req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", test.requestURI, nil)
 			if err != nil {
@@ -272,7 +405,13 @@ func TestWorkEstimator(t *testing.T) {
 
 			workestimateGot := estimator.EstimateWork(req)
 			if test.initialSeatsExpected != workestimateGot.InitialSeats {
-				t.Errorf("Expected work estimate to match: %d seats, but got: %d seats", test.initialSeatsExpected, workestimateGot.InitialSeats)
+				t.Errorf("Expected work estimate to match: %d initial seats, but got: %d", test.initialSeatsExpected, workestimateGot.InitialSeats)
+			}
+			if test.finalSeatsExpected != workestimateGot.FinalSeats {
+				t.Errorf("Expected work estimate to match: %d final seats, but got: %d", test.finalSeatsExpected, workestimateGot.FinalSeats)
+			}
+			if test.additionalLatencyExpected != workestimateGot.AdditionalLatency {
+				t.Errorf("Expected work estimate to match additional latency: %v, but got: %v", test.additionalLatencyExpected, workestimateGot.AdditionalLatency)
 			}
 		})
 	}