fix(ci): stabilize failing functional test recipes - #5253
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…ved-PP NCCL deadlock bert_mcore_tp1_pp4_vp2 intermittently hangs in a pipeline-parallel P2P recv (ProcessGroupNCCL RECV timeout on PIPELINE_MODEL_PARALLEL_GROUP). The interleaved (VPP) schedule defaults to overlap_p2p_comm=True, which forces batch_p2p_comm=False and takes the unbatched _p2p_ops path. Unbatched send/recv on the >2-rank PP group lazily creates a new 2-rank NCCL communicator per pair; under pp4+vp2 these lazy inits can be entered in inconsistent order across ranks and deadlock (the run logs the "unbatched P2P op ... new 2-rank NCCL communicator" warning right before hanging). Observed: 9/9 retries hung, always on a RECV, at rotating ranks (0/1/3/4/6) and varying SeqNums/iterations, with no numerical error -> a comms-layer lazy-comm-init deadlock, not a code or numerical regression. p2p_communication.py is unchanged since 2026-03 (path dates to 2024), so this is a latent hazard. Disabling P2P overlap routes the test to batched _batched_p2p_ops (single batch_isend_irecv on the existing group, no per-pair lazy comms). pp=4 > 2 satisfies the interleaved+no-overlap assert in arguments.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Connor-XY <45385219+Connor-XY@users.noreply.github.com>
…5 functional tests t5_mcore_tp1_pp1_vp1 (+ the two *_resume_torch variants) intermittently hang in CI. The fault-handler dump shows the stuck rank's main thread parked in the input pipeline, not a collective: pretrain_t5.py:148 get_batch -> rerun_state_machine.py __next__ -> torch/utils/data/dataloader.py _try_get_data -> multiprocessing/queues.py:113 get (blocked) A dataloader worker fails to deliver the next batch, so that rank never enters the step's gradient all-reduce; the ranks that did get their data then time out in finalize_model_grads (600s NCCL watchdog) and the run aborts -- surfacing as a misleading "collective timeout". Training is numerically healthy up to the hang (no NaN). build_pretraining_data_loader uses num_workers=2 + pin_memory + persistent_workers and sets no DataLoader timeout, so a stalled worker blocks forever. The same recipe runs clean on fast local storage, so the trigger is the CI data mount / worker pipeline, not the model. --num-workers 0 loads batches in-process (no worker subprocesses, no pin-memory queue, worker_init_fn skipped), removing the queue.get hang surface. Test data is tiny so the perf impact is negligible. Note: candidate fix to validate in CI (the stall does not reproduce on fast local storage). If it still hangs with num_workers=0, the trigger is raw I/O on the data mount and the follow-up is a DataLoader timeout + local data staging. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Connor-XY <45385219+Connor-XY@users.noreply.github.com>
…throughput gpt_grpo_tp4_pp1_dp2_8b_throughput (+ _cudagraphs variant) fail their mem-allocated-bytes guardrail: peak ~69.2GB vs ~60.9GB golden (+13.6%, tol 10%). lm-loss passes -- training is numerically correct; only peak memory grew. Bisected the regression to a single commit (last-pass bdcaf26 -> first-fail 16b7194, the only commit between): PR NVIDIA#3509 "Change the cudagraph distribution from linearly to exponentially-decreasing + grid for mixed prefill", which made `exponential` the default sizing distribution and added a mixed-prefill grid. Set --inference-dynamic-batching-cuda-graph-sizing-distribution=linear to pin the pre-NVIDIA#3509 behavior for these tests. Caveat: these recipes use --inference-dynamic-batching-num-cuda-graphs 1, so the sizing distribution mainly selects the single captured graph size; NVIDIA#3509 also added the mixed-prefill grid (--inference-dynamic-batching-cuda-graph-mixed-prefill-count, default 16) which may be a separate memory driver. If `linear` alone does not bring peak memory under the 10% bound in CI, the follow-up lever is reducing the mixed-prefill-count (or the inference team confirms exponential+grid is the intended default and the golden is rebaselined). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Connor-XY <45385219+Connor-XY@users.noreply.github.com>
bert_mcore_tp1_pp4_vp2 still hangs in the GitLab/JET pipeline after enabling batched P2P. The failing JET child log shows the update is applied (--no-overlap-p2p-communication, overlap_p2p_comm=False), then training reaches iteration 15 before rank 0 times out in _batched_p2p_ops / batch_isend_irecv while rank 7 is blocked in DataLoader queue.get. Use --num-workers 0 for this tiny functional test to remove the worker/pin-memory queue hang surface, matching the T5 dataloader stabilization used in this same PR. Signed-off-by: Connor-XY <45385219+Connor-XY@users.noreply.github.com>
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What
Combine the CI recipe mitigations from:
bert_mcore_tp1_pp4_vp2Follow-up from the latest GitLab/JET BERT logs:
bert_mcore_tp1_pp4_vp2still hung after the batched-P2P change, with one rank blocked in DataLoaderqueue.getwhile another timed out in batched pipeline P2P. This PR now also sets--num-workers: 0for that BERT recipe.The fixes are kept as separate commits so each mitigation remains easy to inspect or revert independently.
Why
These are all test-config-only fixes for functional tests that are currently failing or flaky in CI.
BERT pp4/vp2 hang
bert_mcore_tp1_pp4_vp2originally failed as an intermittent pipeline-parallel P2P hang. Disabling P2P overlap routes the interleaved pp4/vp2 recipe to batched P2P (batch_isend_irecv) instead of the unbatched per-pair P2P path that can lazily create 2-rank NCCL communicators in inconsistent order.The follow-up GitLab/JET failure shows the recipe update was applied (
overlap_p2p_comm=False) and the hang moved to a batchedCOALESCEDNCCL operation after iteration 15, while another rank was parked inget_batch/ DataLoaderqueue.get. Setting--num-workers: 0removes the worker subprocess and pin-memory queue from this small functional test.T5 dataloader hang
The affected T5 recipes can surface as
finalize_model_gradsall-reduce timeouts, but fault-handler dumps show the stuck rank parked inget_batch/ DataLoaderqueue.get. Setting--num-workers: 0removes the worker subprocess queue from these small functional tests.GRPO CUDA-graph memory guardrail
The GRPO throughput recipes fail their memory guardrail after the CUDA graph sizing default changed to
exponentialplus mixed-prefill grid. Pinning--inference-dynamic-batching-cuda-graph-sizing-distribution: linearrestores the pre-change sizing behavior for these tests. This still needs CI confirmation because mixed-prefill count may also contribute to peak memory.Validation
python3/ PyYAML.--no-overlap-p2p-communication,overlap_p2p_comm=False, and still timing out in batched P2P while another rank was blocked in DataLoaderqueue.get.Needs
Run functional teststo validate the CI-dependent failure modes.Supersedes #5240, #5241, and #5242.