Merge pull request #13597 from Luap99/stats

podman stats: calc CPU percentage correctly

5 files changed, 16 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/libpod/define/containerstate.go b/libpod/define/containerstate.go
index 23ba1f451..9ad3aec08 100644
--- a/libpod/define/containerstate.go
+++ b/libpod/define/containerstate.go
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ type ContainerStats struct {
 	CPU           float64
 	CPUNano       uint64
 	CPUSystemNano uint64
-	DataPoints    int64
 	SystemNano    uint64
 	MemUsage      uint64
 	MemLimit      uint64
diff --git a/libpod/pod.go b/libpod/pod.go
index 6273ff247..ed2d97b37 100644
--- a/libpod/pod.go
+++ b/libpod/pod.go
@@ -422,10 +422,6 @@ type PodContainerStats struct {
 
 // GetPodStats returns the stats for each of its containers
 func (p *Pod) GetPodStats(previousContainerStats map[string]*define.ContainerStats) (map[string]*define.ContainerStats, error) {
-	var (
-		ok       bool
-		prevStat *define.ContainerStats
-	)
 	p.lock.Lock()
 	defer p.lock.Unlock()
 
@@ -438,10 +434,7 @@ func (p *Pod) GetPodStats(previousContainerStats map[string]*define.ContainerSta
 	}
 	newContainerStats := make(map[string]*define.ContainerStats)
 	for _, c := range containers {
-		if prevStat, ok = previousContainerStats[c.ID()]; !ok {
-			prevStat = &define.ContainerStats{}
-		}
-		newStats, err := c.GetContainerStats(prevStat)
+		newStats, err := c.GetContainerStats(previousContainerStats[c.ID()])
 		// If the container wasn't running, don't include it
 		// but also suppress the error
 		if err != nil && errors.Cause(err) != define.ErrCtrStateInvalid {
diff --git a/libpod/stats.go b/libpod/stats.go
index b5d39240d..25baa378d 100644
--- a/libpod/stats.go
+++ b/libpod/stats.go
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
-// GetContainerStats gets the running stats for a given container
+// GetContainerStats gets the running stats for a given container.
+// The previousStats is used to correctly calculate cpu percentages. You
+// should pass nil if there is no previous stat for this container.
 func (c *Container) GetContainerStats(previousStats *define.ContainerStats) (*define.ContainerStats, error) {
 	stats := new(define.ContainerStats)
 	stats.ContainerID = c.ID()
@@ -36,6 +38,14 @@ func (c *Container) GetContainerStats(previousStats *define.ContainerStats) (*de
 		return stats, define.ErrCtrStateInvalid
 	}
 
+	if previousStats == nil {
+		previousStats = &define.ContainerStats{
+			// if we have no prev stats use the container start time as prev time
+			// otherwise we cannot correctly calculate the CPU percentage
+			SystemNano: uint64(c.state.StartedTime.UnixNano()),
+		}
+	}
+
 	cgroupPath, err := c.cGroupPath()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -67,8 +77,8 @@ func (c *Container) GetContainerStats(previousStats *define.ContainerStats) (*de
 	stats.Duration = cgroupStats.CPU.Usage.Total
 	stats.UpTime = time.Duration(stats.Duration)
 	stats.CPU = calculateCPUPercent(cgroupStats, previousCPU, now, previousStats.SystemNano)
-	stats.AvgCPU = calculateAvgCPU(stats.CPU, previousStats.AvgCPU, previousStats.DataPoints)
-	stats.DataPoints = previousStats.DataPoints + 1
+	// calc the average cpu usage for the time the container is running
+	stats.AvgCPU = calculateCPUPercent(cgroupStats, 0, now, uint64(c.state.StartedTime.UnixNano()))
 	stats.MemUsage = cgroupStats.Memory.Usage.Usage
 	stats.MemLimit = c.getMemLimit()
 	stats.MemPerc = (float64(stats.MemUsage) / float64(stats.MemLimit)) * 100
@@ -146,9 +156,3 @@ func calculateBlockIO(stats *cgroups.Metrics) (read uint64, write uint64) {
 	}
 	return
 }
-
-// calculateAvgCPU calculates the avg CPU percentage given the previous average and the number of data points.
-func calculateAvgCPU(statsCPU float64, prevAvg float64, prevData int64) float64 {
-	avgPer := ((prevAvg * float64(prevData)) + statsCPU) / (float64(prevData) + 1)
-	return avgPer
-}
diff --git a/pkg/api/handlers/compat/containers_stats.go b/pkg/api/handlers/compat/containers_stats.go
index 99f14d02f..77b16b03e 100644
--- a/pkg/api/handlers/compat/containers_stats.go
+++ b/pkg/api/handlers/compat/containers_stats.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func StatsContainer(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	stats, err := ctnr.GetContainerStats(&define.ContainerStats{})
+	stats, err := ctnr.GetContainerStats(nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		utils.InternalServerError(w, errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to obtain Container %s stats", name))
 		return
diff --git a/pkg/domain/infra/abi/containers.go b/pkg/domain/infra/abi/containers.go
index e6feb7c82..1986228a6 100644
--- a/pkg/domain/infra/abi/containers.go
+++ b/pkg/domain/infra/abi/containers.go
@@ -1431,12 +1431,7 @@ func (ic *ContainerEngine) ContainerStats(ctx context.Context, namesOrIds []stri
 
 			reportStats := []define.ContainerStats{}
 			for _, ctr := range containers {
-				prev, ok := containerStats[ctr.ID()]
-				if !ok {
-					prev = &define.ContainerStats{}
-				}
-
-				stats, err := ctr.GetContainerStats(prev)
+				stats, err := ctr.GetContainerStats(containerStats[ctr.ID()])
 				if err != nil {
 					cause := errors.Cause(err)
 					if queryAll && (cause == define.ErrCtrRemoved || cause == define.ErrNoSuchCtr || cause == define.ErrCtrStateInvalid) {