Borg Priorities

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Papers/EuroSys20.pdf

The priority of a job helps define how the scheduler treats it. Ranges of priorities that share similar properties are referred to as tiers: • Free tier: jobs running at these lowest priorities incur no internal charges, and have no Service Level Objectives (SLOs). 2019 trace priority <= 99; 2011 trace priority bands 0 and 1. • Best-effort Batch (beb) tier: jobs running at these priorities are managed by the batch scheduler and incur low internal charges; they have no associated SLOs. 2019 trace priority 110–115; 2011 trace priority bands 2–8. • Mid-tier: jobs in this category offer SLOs weaker than those offered to production tier workloads, as well as lower internal charges. 2019 trace priority 116–119; not present in the 2011 trace. • Production tier: jobs in this category require high availability (e.g., user-facing service jobs, or daemon jobs providing storage and networking primitives); internally charged for at “full price”. Borg will evict lower-tier jobs in order to ensure production tier jobs receive their expected level of service. 2019 trace priority 120–359; 2011 trace priority bands 9–10. • Monitoring tier: jobs we deem critical to our infrastructure, including ones that monitor other jobs for problems. 2019 trace priority >= 360; 2011 trace priority band 11. (We merged the small number of monitoring jobs into the Production tier for this paper.)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Papers/EuroSys20.pdf

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43438.pdf

2.5 Priority, quota, and admission control
What happens when more work shows up than can be accommodated? Our solutions for this are priority and quota.
Every job has a priority, a small positive integer. A highpriority task can obtain resources at the expense of a lowerpriority one, even if that involves preempting (killing) the
latter. Borg defines non-overlapping priority bands for different uses, including (in decreasing-priority order): monitoring, production, batch, and best effort (also known as
testing or free). For this paper, prod jobs are the ones in the
monitoring and production bands.