IP Library Granted Patent US 11,494,233
Granted Patent B2
US 11,494,233 · App. 16/841,671 · Granted Nov 8, 2022

Baselining for compute resource allocation

Inventor: Huamin Chen (Westford, MA)
Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 11,494,233
App. No.
16/841,671
Granted
Nov 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for resource allocation in computer systems. A method of the disclosure may include running, on a plurality of nodes of a computer system, a benchmark workload utilizing a plurality of compute resources, and generating, by a processing device, a plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the plurality of compute resources. The method may further include creating, by the processing device, a resource definition for the compute system in view of the benchmarking results, wherein the resource definition comprises a first resource allocation unit indicative of a first computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a first compute resource and a second resource allocation unit indicative of a second computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a second compute resource, and wherein the plurality of compute resources comprises the first compute resource and the second compute resource.

Claims (36)

1. A method comprising:

running, on a plurality of nodes of a computer system, a benchmark workload utilizing a plurality of compute resources;

generating, by a processing device, a plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the plurality of compute resources; and

creating, by the processing device, a resource definition for the computer system in view of the plurality of benchmarking results, wherein the resource definition comprises a first resource allocation unit indicative of a first computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a first compute resource and a second resource allocation unit indicative of a second computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a second compute resource, and wherein the plurality of compute resources comprises the first compute resource and the second compute resource.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource definition further comprises mapping data indicative of a first association between the first resource allocation unit and the first compute resource and a second association between the second resource allocation unit and the second compute resource.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource definition further comprises identifying information of a benchmark related to the benchmark workload.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein generating the plurality of benchmarking results comprises generating a first plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the first compute resource.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

in response to determining that the first plurality of benchmarking results fall within a predefined range, determining a first performance score in view of the first plurality of benchmarking results, wherein the first resource allocation unit comprises the first performance score.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first compute resource comprises a first processing resource, and wherein the second compute resource comprises a second processing resource.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first compute resource comprises a first memory resource, and wherein the second compute resource comprises a second memory resource.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

deploying a plurality of containers on the plurality of computer nodes, wherein running, on the plurality of nodes of the computer system, the benchmark workload utilizing the plurality of compute resources comprises executing the benchmark workload in each of the plurality of containers utilizing the plurality of compute resources.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein running, on the plurality of nodes of the computer system, the benchmark workload utilizing the plurality of compute resources comprises executing the benchmark workload on a plurality of virtual machines utilizing the plurality of compute resources.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

monitoring resource utilization of the nodes during the execution of the benchmark workload to generate execution data; and obtaining the plurality of benchmarking results in view of the execution data.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

run, on a plurality of nodes of a computer system, a benchmark workload utilizing a plurality of compute resources;

generate a plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the plurality of compute resources; and

create a resource definition for the computer system in view of the plurality of benchmarking results, wherein the resource definition comprises a first resource allocation unit indicative of a first computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a first compute resource and a second resource allocation unit indicative of a second computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a second compute resource, and wherein the plurality of compute resources comprises the first compute resource and the second compute resource.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the resource definition further comprises mapping data indicative of a first association between the first resource allocation unit and the first compute resource and a second association between the second resource allocation unit and the second compute resource.

13. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, coupled to the memory to:

run, on a plurality of nodes of a computer system, a benchmark workload utilizing a plurality of compute resources;

generate a plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the plurality of compute resources; and

create a resource definition for the computer system in view of the plurality of benchmarking results, wherein the resource definition comprises a first resource allocation unit indicative of a first computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a first compute resource and a second resource allocation unit indicative of a second computing capacity of the computer system utilizing a second compute resource, and wherein the plurality of compute resources comprises the first compute resource and the second compute resource.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the resource definition further comprises mapping data indicative of a first association between the first resource allocation unit and the first compute resource and a second association between the second resource allocation unit and the second compute resource.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the resource definition further comprises identifying information of a benchmark related to the benchmark workload.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein to generate the plurality of benchmarking results, the processing device is to generate a first plurality of benchmarking results representing performance of the computer system utilizing the first compute resource.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the processing device is further to:

in response to determining that the first plurality of benchmarking results fall within a predefined range, determine a first performance score in view of the first plurality of benchmarking results, wherein the first resource allocation unit comprises the first performance score.

18. The system of claim 13 , wherein the first compute resource comprises a first processing resource, and wherein the second compute resource comprises a second processing resource.

19. The system of claim 13 , wherein the first compute resource comprises a first memory resource, and wherein the second compute resource comprises a second memory resource.

20. The system of claim 13 , wherein the processing device is further to:

deploy a plurality of containers on the plurality of computer nodes, wherein to run, on the plurality of nodes of the computer system, the benchmark workload utilizing the plurality of compute resources, the processing device is further to execute the benchmark workload in each of the plurality of containers utilizing the plurality of compute resources.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2021
From: CHEN, HUAMIN
To: RED HAT, INC.
Reel/Frame 054927/0492 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15889143 · Feb 5, 2018
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