[RFE-9309]: Enable OpenShift Workload Partitioning support - #341
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Annotate all operator and operand pods with
target.workload.openshift.io/management '{"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}'
so they become eligible for OpenShift Workload Partitioning and are pinned to
the reserved (management) CPU pool when cpuPartitioningMode is enabled. The
PreferredDuringScheduling effect makes the annotation a no-op where Workload
Partitioning is not enabled, so it is safe to set unconditionally.
Operand pods (controller, speaker, frr-k8s daemonset and statuscleaner) are
annotated at render time in pkg/helm, gated on IsOpenshift, mirroring the
existing required-scc handling. The operator's own controller-manager and
webhook-server pods are annotated in the static manifests (config sources plus
the generated bundle CSV, downstream OCP CSV and bin manifest).
The metallb namespace is annotated with workload.openshift.io/allowed:
management where the Namespace object is owned by these manifests, as required
for pods to be handled by the partitioning admission hook.
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WalkthroughThe change adds OpenShift Workload Partitioning annotations to MetalLB and FRR-K8s workloads, namespaces, operator manifests, and generated test fixtures. Helm rendering applies annotations only for OpenShift configurations and preserves existing pod-template annotations. ChangesOpenShift workload partitioning
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to When controller or speaker overrides are configured, the returned workloads may not receive the Workload Partitioning annotation, so their pods can run outside the reserved CPU pool. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merging. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@pkg/helm/metallb.go`:
- Around line 95-101: Update the workload partitioning annotation logic in the
object-processing loop to annotate the current returned object after controller
or speaker overrides replace objs[i]. Use objs[i] or reassign the override
result to obj before calling setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation, and add
regression coverage for non-nil controller and speaker configurations.
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| // Make the operand pods eligible for OpenShift Workload Partitioning so | ||
| // they are pinned to the reserved (management) CPU pool when enabled. | ||
| if envConfig.IsOpenshift && (isControllerDeployment(obj) || isSpeakerDaemonSet(obj)) { | ||
| if err := setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation(obj); err != nil { | ||
| return nil, err | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Annotate the object that is returned.
When ControllerConfig or SpeakerConfig is non-nil, overrideControllerParameters or overrideSpeakerParameters replaces objs[i] with a new Unstructured. Line 98 annotates the stale obj, so the returned workload has no Workload Partitioning annotation.
Pass objs[i] to setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation, or assign each override result back to obj. Add a regression case with non-nil controller and speaker configuration.
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- if err := setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation(obj); err != nil {
+ if err := setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation(objs[i]); err != nil {
return nil, err
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| // Make the operand pods eligible for OpenShift Workload Partitioning so | |
| // they are pinned to the reserved (management) CPU pool when enabled. | |
| if envConfig.IsOpenshift && (isControllerDeployment(obj) || isSpeakerDaemonSet(obj)) { | |
| if err := setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation(obj); err != nil { | |
| return nil, err | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // Make the operand pods eligible for OpenShift Workload Partitioning so | |
| // they are pinned to the reserved (management) CPU pool when enabled. | |
| if envConfig.IsOpenshift && (isControllerDeployment(obj) || isSpeakerDaemonSet(obj)) { | |
| if err := setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation(objs[i]); err != nil { | |
| return nil, err | |
| } | |
| } |
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In `@pkg/helm/metallb.go` around lines 95 - 101, Update the workload partitioning
annotation logic in the object-processing loop to annotate the current returned
object after controller or speaker overrides replace objs[i]. Use objs[i] or
reassign the override result to obj before calling
setWorkloadPartitioningAnnotation, and add regression coverage for non-nil
controller and speaker configurations.
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Annotate all operator and operand pods with
target.workload.openshift.io/management '{"effect": "PreferredDuringScheduling"}' so they become eligible for OpenShift Workload Partitioning and are pinned to the reserved (management) CPU pool when cpuPartitioningMode is enabled. The PreferredDuringScheduling effect makes the annotation a no-op where Workload Partitioning is not enabled, so it is safe to set unconditionally.
Operand pods (controller, speaker, frr-k8s daemonset and statuscleaner) are annotated at render time in pkg/helm, gated on IsOpenshift, mirroring the existing required-scc handling. The operator's own controller-manager and webhook-server pods are annotated in the static manifests (config sources plus the generated bundle CSV, downstream OCP CSV and bin manifest).
The metallb namespace is annotated with workload.openshift.io/allowed: management where the Namespace object is owned by these manifests, as required for pods to be handled by the partitioning admission hook.
Is this a BUG FIX or a FEATURE ?:
/kind feature
What this PR does / why we need it:
Makes the MetalLB operator and its operand pods compliant with OpenShift Workload Partitioning, so that on clusters running cpuPartitioningMode: AllNodes all MetalLB platform pods are pinned to the Reserved (management) CPU pool instead of running on the Isolated application cores.
Without this, MetalLB's Go-based components (and their runtime GC threads) schedule across all host CPUs, bleeding onto cores dedicated to high-performance workloads and breaking the deterministic resource guarantees Telco/5G partners depend on.
The feature has two requirements, both addressed:
The PreferredDuringScheduling effect makes the pod annotation a no-op where Workload Partitioning is not enabled, so it is safe to set unconditionally with no new API surface. Operand pods are annotated at render time in pkg/helm (controller, speaker, frr-k8s daemonset, statuscleaner), gated on IsOpenshift and mirroring the existing required-scc handling; the operator's own controller-manager and webhook-server pods are annotated in the static manifests (config sources + generated bundle CSV, downstream OCP CSV, and bin).
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