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docs: document high-throughput tuning, connection sharding, and refill shaping flags - #1593
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…l shaping flags Under high sustained claim rates (e.g. 10-20+ claims/sec) or large warm pools (>1,000 replicas), default controller deployments can experience API server write spikes and warm pool replenishment stalls caused by HTTP/2 stream saturation and watch frame queueing behind write bursts (the expectations gate fallback). Document the recently added flags in docs/configuration.md and site/content/docs/performance-assessment/_index.md: - API transport settings (--separate-watch-connection, --api-connections) - Warm pool replenishment shaping (--sandbox-warm-pool-max-refill-rate, --sandbox-warm-pool-replenish-delay) - API write optimizations (--disable-claim-events, --disable-claim-observability-annotations, --cache-label-selectors, --sandbox-write-behind-window) Include a dedicated High-Throughput & Scale Tuning guide and sample Deployment manifest with recommended flag combinations.
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The new deployment example is not a valid Kubernetes Deployment as written (missing required fields), and the updated warm-pool worker guidance conflicts with existing examples in the same docs.
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Pull request overview
This PR expands the project’s performance documentation to cover recently added high-scale controller tuning flags (API connection sharding / watch isolation, warm-pool refill shaping, and write/cache optimizations) and adds a “High-Throughput & Scale Tuning” pointer from the performance assessment guide.
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- Documented new high-throughput flags in
docs/configuration.md(transport/connection sharding, refill shaping, and API write/cache reductions). - Extended the performance assessment flag table with the same high-scale flags and added a new high-throughput tuning section linking to the configuration guide.
- Added a sample “high-throughput” Deployment snippet to illustrate a recommended flag set.
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site/content/docs/performance-assessment/_index.md |
Adds high-scale flags to the tuning table and links readers to the high-throughput tuning section. |
docs/configuration.md |
Adds detailed descriptions for high-throughput tuning flags and includes a high-throughput deployment example. |
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- The high-throughput Deployment YAML example omits the container
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- Line 130: Update the kubelet tuning guidance and Deployment configuration so
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…rs, and burst flag - Make high-throughput Deployment manifest valid by adding spec.selector, matching pod template labels, serviceAccountName, and image. - Clarify that warm-pool workers provide concurrency across distinct pools rather than within a single pool due to workqueue key serialization. - Remove ineffective kube-api-burst from high-throughput args and explain that burst only applies when kube-api-qps is set to a positive value. - Add adoption caveat for --cache-label-selectors in performance assessment table.
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Adds docs/performance-tuning.md with the benchmark evidence and sizing rationale behind the high-throughput flag recommendations: worker-count and flag A/B results from GKE live testing, kops warm-adoption latency data, write-behind trade-offs, and burst-vs-sustained profile guidance including the replenish-delay pool-drain fragility finding. docs/configuration.md (kubernetes-sigs#1593) remains the canonical flag reference; this guide cross-links it instead of duplicating flag documentation, and the two docs now agree on sizing rules (refill rate >= per-pool arrival rate, warm-pool workers sized to pool count, batch size default under the expectations gate).
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…1359) Adds docs/performance-tuning.md with the benchmark evidence and sizing rationale behind the high-throughput flag recommendations: worker-count and flag A/B results from GKE live testing, kops warm-adoption latency data, write-behind trade-offs, and burst-vs-sustained profile guidance including the replenish-delay pool-drain fragility finding. docs/configuration.md (#1593) remains the canonical flag reference; this guide cross-links it instead of duplicating flag documentation, and the two docs now agree on sizing rules (refill rate >= per-pool arrival rate, warm-pool workers sized to pool count, batch size default under the expectations gate). Co-authored-by: Aditya Shantanu <aditya-shantanu@users.noreply.github.com>
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What this PR does / why we need it:
Under high sustained claim rates (e.g. 10–20+ claims/sec) or large warm pools (>1,000 replicas), default controller deployments can encounter API server write spikes and warm-pool replenishment stalls due to HTTP/2 stream saturation and watch frame queueing behind write bursts (expectations gate timeout).
This PR updates
docs/configuration.mdandsite/content/docs/performance-assessment/_index.mdto document several flags and features added for high scale:--separate-watch-connection(dedicates an isolated HTTP/2 connection for list/watch informer streams) and--api-connections(shards non-watch traffic across N connections to bypassSETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS).--sandbox-warm-pool-max-refill-rate(paces pool creates via token bucket) and--sandbox-warm-pool-replenish-delay(defers refill during claim bursts).--disable-claim-events,--disable-claim-observability-annotations,--cache-label-selectors, and--sandbox-write-behind-window.Which issue(s) this PR is related to:
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