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TL;DR

Make the GracefulNoGPU path stay alive but NotReady until GPU discovery is followed by successful ICMS registration and queue credential installation.

Additional Details

  • Prime readiness synchronously so the first no-GPU health response is 503 while liveness remains 200.
  • Keep creation queues paused until registration succeeds.
  • Retry transient registration failures at the GPU polling cadence.
  • Return to NotReady and pause creation processing when the last GPU disappears.
  • Serialize recovery and periodic registration from inventory capture through response application so stale credentials cannot overwrite recovered state.
  • Retain the GPU-generation guard so an in-flight registration cannot resume queues after topology changes.
  • Keep GracefulNoGPU opt-in; this PR does not change default product policy.

Mutex acquisition is not itself context-cancelable, but the holder uses the request context and waiters check cancellation immediately after acquiring the lock.

For the Reviewer

Please focus on:

  • registrationOperationMu coverage in agent.go and agent_updates.go
  • readiness and liveness behavior during initial no-GPU startup
  • failure-to-retry recovery and A100 to zero to AD102GL response ordering in agent_test.go

For QA

Validated locally:

  • three focused GracefulNoGPU lifecycle and response-ordering tests
  • full go test ./pkg/nvca suite with the required DRA version ldflag
  • focused go test -race run
  • gofmt and git diff --check

QA needed: exercise a live operator and pod through zero GPU, GPU arrival, and last-GPU removal; confirm no CrashLoop, readiness 503 to 200 to 503, liveness 200, registration success, queue resume, and final pause.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • NVCA can start and report readiness when no GPUs are available.
    • GPU registration automatically retries when GPUs become available.
    • Queue processing resumes only after successful registration.
    • Health status now reflects GPU registration readiness.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented overlapping registration attempts during GPU recovery and periodic refreshes.
    • Improved recovery after registration failures without requiring a restart.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for GPU recovery, retries, readiness, queue handling, and registration serialization.

Keep readiness unhealthy and creation queues paused until GPU discovery is followed by a successful ICMS registration and credential installation. Retry transient failures while preserving liveness.

Serialize recovery and periodic registration across inventory capture and response application so stale credentials cannot overwrite recovered state.

Tests: focused graceful-no-GPU lifecycle and response-ordering regressions; full pkg/nvca suite; focused race run.
Signed-off-by: Mike Camp <mcamp@nvidia.com>
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The NVCA agent coordinates GPU transitions with ICMS registration. It pauses queues during registration, retries failures, updates readiness, and resumes queues only after successful registration. Tests verify retry logging and registration coordination.

Changes

Graceful no-GPU registration

Layer / File(s) Summary
GPU transition registration coordination
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent_test.go
GPU transitions pause queues, invalidate readiness, trigger asynchronous ICMS registration, retry failures, and resume queues after successful registration. Tests verify the retry warning.
Startup health and backend wiring
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent.go
Startup initializes registration state, injects the backend cache builder, refreshes health during no-GPU startup, and reports registration readiness.
Periodic registration serialization
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent_updates.go
Static and dynamic registration operations serialize and stop when their context is canceled.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4e0f2

A stalled registration request could delay recovery and keep creation queues paused longer than intended because registration is serialized across the network call. This is a bounded operational risk that should remain with the owner for follow-up, but it does not by itself make the change unmergeable.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GPUStateCallback
  participant RegistrationWorker
  participant ICMS
  participant QueueProcessing
  participant BackendReadiness
  GPUStateCallback->>QueueProcessing: pause queues
  GPUStateCallback->>BackendReadiness: mark registration not ready
  GPUStateCallback->>RegistrationWorker: request registration
  RegistrationWorker->>ICMS: register available GPUs
  ICMS-->>RegistrationWorker: return registration result
  RegistrationWorker->>BackendReadiness: update registration readiness
  RegistrationWorker->>QueueProcessing: resume queues after success
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent.go (1)

507-510: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log the recoverable retry path as a warning.

The registration failure here is a recoverable retry path. The worker retries at the GPU poll cadence. Log it at warning level so a transient ICMS failure does not raise an error-level alert on every poll.

Proposed change
 	log.Info("Registering with ICMS after GPUs became available")
 	if _, err := a.RegisterWithICMS(ctx); err != nil {
-		log.WithError(err).Error("Failed to register with ICMS after GPUs became available; will retry")
+		log.WithError(err).Warn("Failed to register with ICMS after GPUs became available; will retry")
 		return a.gpuMonitor.HasGPUs()
 	}

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/agent.go` around lines 507 - 510,
Change the logging call in the RegisterWithICMS failure path to warning level,
preserving the existing error details and retry message; leave the return
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Accepted the CodeRabbit retry-log severity finding in 4e0f23f. The API registration failure remains retryable with the original error attached, but the recoverable poll path now logs at warning level instead of error.

Regression evidence:

  • Focused test observed RED before the implementation: expected WarnLevel for the exact retry message, got ErrorLevel.
  • The same focused command passed after the implementation: go test ./pkg/nvca -run ^TestAgentStartGracefulNoGPURegistrationFailureRetriesBeforeResuming$ -count=1 with the repository version ldflag.
  • git diff --check passed.
  • The package-level Bazel test analyzed and built successfully, then failed only in the pre-existing Darwin metrics compatibility assertion for missing process memory metrics; this is unrelated to the one-line log-level change.

I also rechecked the automated docstring note. The newly added production helpers are unexported; the applicable repository guidance requires documentation for exported symbols, so no boilerplate comments were added.

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Mostly lgtm

// gpuMonitor monitors GPU availability and controls queue processing
// when GracefulNoGPU feature flag is enabled.
gpuMonitor *GPUMonitor
gpuMonitor *GPUMonitor

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Wrap these in a gpuRegistrationManager struct and put code in a separate file for easier testing

a.syncICMSRegistration = func(ctx context.Context) error {
a.registrationOperationMu.Lock()
defer a.registrationOperationMu.Unlock()
if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {

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Why is context checking done here?

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