[alec-flowers]

Summary

GPU test jobs spend most of Initialize containers after their pod is already running. Here is a sample breakdown of what occurs in this step:

| Phase | Duration |
| --- | --- |
| Job pod created, waiting for it to come online | 22:39:00 → 23:19:15 — 40m15s |
| tar copy of /home/runner/_work into pod | 23:19:15 → 23:22:26 — 3m11s |
| 15 futile hash verifications | 23:22:26 → 23:46:08 — 23m42s |

This PR attempts to address reducing the tar copy by avoiding copying the runner's work into the pod. The k8s-novolume hook copies the runner's _work into the pod and checks it file by file. _work holds about 8.7k entries, because shared-test.yml loads the pytest-local composite action with $/ (#13642). That syntax downloads the whole repository for every job, and the snapshot is 96% of what gets copied.

This PR runs the action's logic as .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh from the job's own checkout, so the repository is no longer downloaded or copied. About 400 entries remain.

Before (uses: $/.github/actions/pytest-local)
Coordinator (CPU)                              GPU pod
─────────────────                              ───────
1. Set up job
   download JS actions
   download WHOLE dynamo repo (due to $/`)  (43 MB)
   └─ needed only to read action.yml
2. Initialize containers
   create pod ───────────────────────────────► pod starts
   copy _work: ~8.7k entries ────────────────► /__w
     └─ chmod + stat on every file,
        ×15 retries before velonix#796
        ≈ 6–20 min
3. Each step ── exec ────────────────────────► checkout, pytest, uploads
            ◄─ logs, exit code, GITHUB_ENV ──

After (run: bash .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh)
Coordinator (CPU)                              GPU pod
─────────────────                              ───────
1. Set up job
   download JS actions
   (no repo download)
2. Initialize containers
   create pod ───────────────────────────────► pod starts
   copy _work: ~400 entries ─────────────────► /__w
     └─ ≈ 0.7–1.7 min (measured, pre-#796)
3. Each step ── exec ────────────────────────► checkout, pytest-local.sh, uploads
            ◄─ logs, exit code, GITHUB_ENV ──

Measured on CI. The total Initialize containers time can't be compared like-for-like between runs: most of it is waiting for a GPU node, which depends on capacity at the time. So each job's step is split at the hook's first Kubernetes exec (marked by node's DEP0005 warning in the step log), which starts only after the GPU pod is Running. Pod wait is before that point; after pod is copying _work into the pod and verifying it, which is what this PR changes. The split reproduces the numbers measured on this PR's first run (38772498260).

Minutes after pod, p50 (p90). Baselines are the same jobs on other PRs' CI runs since Oct 9, which still load pytest-local with $/:

Job	$/, before velonix#796 (n≈45)	$/, after velonix#796 (n≈100)	This PR, first run	This PR, latest run (38968734540)
TRT 1-GPU	27.8 (28.2)	2.9 (28.2)	1.7	pending
TRT 2-GPU	28.7 (29.8)	3.1 (28.8)	1.7	0.2
vLLM 1-GPU	8.9 (9.4)	8.8 (9.5)	0.7	pending
vLLM 2-GPU	9.5 (9.9)	9.3 (9.9)	0.7	0.7
SGLang 1-GPU	0.9 (9.6)	9.2 (9.7)	0.7	0.7
SGLang 2-GPU	9.8 (10.2)	9.6 (10.2)	0.7	0.7

Median pod wait was 0.5–1.5 min in every group, so capacity does not explain the difference. ai-dynamo/velonix#796 (the hook's 15× verification retry fix) helps the TRT median, but $/ jobs still spend about 9 minutes after the pod is up on vLLM and SGLang. This PR's runs are single samples per job.

Changes:

• .github/actions/pytest-local/action.yml becomes .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh, run by each of the four stages with bash .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh. Inputs move from with: to step env: with the same values. A script (rather than an inline YAML anchor) can be shellchecked and run locally, and GitHub never expands ${{ }} inside it.
• The script fails fast if a required variable is missing, instead of falling back to an empty value (an empty PYTEST_MARKS selects every test). The header lists required and optional variables.
• The script is simplified: the pytest argv is a bash array rather than a string run through bash -c, pytest's exit code is captured without turning off set -e for the rest of the script, and the unused dry-run path and variables nothing reads are gone.
• Coverage and Allure results still upload per stage under the same artifact names.
• Per-test logs upload once per job on failure, instead of once per stage. Nothing consumes that artifact name.
• The script is added to the ci filter.

Behaviour note: the script comes from the test checkout (source_ref), not from the workflow commit as $/ did, so the script and the tests it runs now share a ref. A dynamo-pipeline.yml dispatch with a source_ref older than this PR fails with "No such file". Nightly and PR CI pass GITHUB_SHA and are unaffected.

Closes DYN-4956

Validation

• shellcheck 0.10.0 reports nothing on the script. actionlint 1.7.12 reports only the pre-existing SC2115 in the sidecar install step, which is also on main.
• The pre-commit hooks pass.
• The runner logs every action it downloads in each job's "Set up job" step. Jobs still on uses: $/… download the whole repository at the PR's commit, only to read pytest-local/action.yml. Example from feat(kv-router): carry shared-cache eligibility in events #15260, run 38956099883, sglang-runtime / 2-GPU Test, job 117163887490:

  19:47:25.357  Getting action download info
  19:47:25.573  Download action repository 'actions/checkout@de0fac2e…'
  19:47:25.765  Download action repository 'actions/download-artifact@d3f86a10…'
  19:47:25.976  Download action repository 'ai-dynamo/dynamo@6fa671de30…'   ← the whole repository
  19:47:34.432  Download action repository 'actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d…'
  

  That download alone takes about 8.5 s, before any copying starts. The same job on this PR, run 38968734540, job 117205694018, no longer downloads it:

  21:31:50.059  Getting action download info
  21:31:50.253  Download action repository 'actions/checkout@de0fac2e…'
  21:31:50.457  Download action repository 'actions/download-artifact@d3f86a10…'
  21:31:50.689  Download action repository 'actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d…'
  

  Across the measured jobs above, 893 of 893 $/ jobs download ai-dynamo/dynamo; 0 of 9 jobs on this PR do.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated automated test workflows to run CPU and GPU test stages directly, with coverage and test-result artifacts handled separately.
  • Failed test runs now collect and upload per-test logs.
  • Updated CI change detection to include the test runner script and refreshed references to where test artifacts are uploaded.

[devin-ai-integration]

⏹️ Dynamo PR CI cancelled — run 38968734540 (attempt 1) on afb390d637

Gate checks: ✅ backend-status-check · ❌ deploy-status-check · ❌ dynamo-status-check

Framework	Deploy
vLLM	⏹️ 2 ✅ 2
SGLang	⏹️ 3
TRT-LLM	⏹️ 2

Other	Jobs
dynamo-runtime	⏹️ 1 ✅ 7

Failure details

No job failed outright. All 8 ⏹️ jobs hit their timeout-minutes limit, which GitHub reports as cancelled, not a manual or concurrency cancel. The 7 Deploy tests sat pending because the cluster had no free GPU nodes, and rust-gpu spent 20 of its 30 minutes in container init. Both look like infrastructure problems; rerunning the failed jobs is likely enough.

⏰ dynamo-runtime / rust-gpu: job exceeded 30m timeout (container init took ~20 min)

Job: dynamo-runtime / rust-gpu · Step that timed out: Run Rust checks (block-manager + media-ffmpeg + MM routing + integration tests) · Logs: gh api repos/ai-dynamo/dynamo/actions/jobs/117203476939/logs

Initialize containers  21:26:00Z -> 21:45:55Z   (~20 min)
Run Rust checks        21:46:43Z -> 21:56:02Z
21:54:40  Finished `test` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4m 57s
21:54:40  Running unittests src/lib.rs (.../dynamo_llm-...)
21:55:59  test protocols::openai::chat_completions::unified_parser::tests::kimi2_qualification::complete_native_arguments ... ok
##[error]The job has exceeded the maximum execution time of 30m0s
##[error]Executing the custom container implementation failed. Please contact your self hosted runner administrator.

The Initialize containers step took about 20 minutes, so the Rust step only got about 9 minutes. The build finished and dynamo_llm unit tests were still passing when the 30-minute job limit hit. No test failure or hang shows in the log; this is a slow runner/image start.

⏰ 7 Deploy Tests: DGDs stuck pending (Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu), job exceeded 25m timeout

Jobs: trtllm Deploy Test / agg · trtllm Deploy Test / agg_router · sglang Deploy Test / agg · vllm Deploy Test / agg · vllm Deploy Test / agg_router · sglang Deploy Test / agg_embed · sglang Deploy Test / agg_router · Step that timed out: Run Dynamo Deploy Test · Logs: gh api repos/ai-dynamo/dynamo/actions/jobs/<job_id>/logs

INFO ManagedDeployment: Current deployment state: pending   (repeated from 21:45 until timeout)
vllm-agg-router-0-worker-9hcjs: FailedScheduling - 0/15 nodes are available: 5 Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu, 5 node(s) had untolerated taint(s), 5 node(s) were unschedulable.
vllm-agg-router-0-worker-9hcjs: FailedScheduling - Failed to schedule pod, did not tolerate taint (taint=CriticalAddonsOnly=true:NoSchedule); no instance type has enough resources
    Message:  Resources not ready: trtllm-agg: TRTLLMWorker: schedule-gated replicas: 1
    Reason:   insufficient_capacity
    Message:  Resources not ready: sglang-agg: decode: schedule-gated replicas: 1
    Message:  Resources not ready: vllm-agg-router: worker: schedule-gated replicas: 2
##[error]The job has exceeded the maximum execution time of 25m0s

In every Deploy job, tests/deploy/test_dgd.py::test_deployment[...] waited on DGD worker pods that never got scheduled (Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu, insufficient_capacity). The jobs then hit the 25-minute limit. The deployments never started, so this is a K8s GPU capacity/scheduling problem, not a test failure. The 2 vLLM Deploy jobs that passed got GPUs.

For agents

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[nv-tusharma]

@alec-flowers I pushed b8f7f38 on top of your branch. It moves pytest-local back from the YAML anchor to .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh and simplifies the script. Why:

• Script over anchor: GitHub expands ${{ }} inside an inline run: block, so a later edit could bring back template injection; a script file is immune. It can also be shellchecked and run locally, and shared-test.yml stays ~230 lines shorter. The repo is still not downloaded as an action, so the Initialize containers win is unchanged.
• Fail fast on missing inputs: the script errors if a required step variable is unset. Previously a typo fell back to an empty default, and an empty PYTEST_MARKS runs every test.
• Simpler body: the pytest argv is a bash array rather than a string run through bash -c, the exit code is captured with || TEST_EXIT_CODE=$? rather than set +e for the whole second half, and the dry-run path and variables nothing reads are removed. It is 205 lines, down from 236, and shellcheck-clean.

Validation: a stub harness compares origin/main's composite action with the new script across 37 cases (all 4 stages, coverage on/off, pass/fail, TRT-LLM cap, missing JUnit, triton_qa, verify_gpu=false, full 4-stage jobs). Exit codes, pytest argv, cwd, env, test-results/ and GITHUB_ENV all match; the only env differences are the dropped unused variables. I updated the PR description to match, including a note that the script now comes from the source_ref checkout.

[nv-tusharma]

/ok to test b8f7f38

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Walkthrough

The shared test workflow now runs pytest stages through .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh instead of the deleted composite action. The script handles stage configuration and test execution. The workflow handles stage-specific coverage, Allure, and failure-log uploads.

Changes

Pytest runner migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Script entry point and stage setup .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh, .github/actions/pytest-local/action.yml	The shell script validates stage settings, configures test paths, and performs conditional GPU and MinIO checks. The previous composite action was removed.
Pytest execution and result handling .github/scripts/pytest-local.sh	The script configures pytest parallelism, VRAM orchestration, and optional coverage. It records the pytest exit code and writes it to the stage status file.
Workflow stages and artifact uploads .github/workflows/shared-test.yml, .github/filters.yaml, components/src/dynamo/triton/tests/qa/qa_utils.py	CPU and GPU stages invoke the script with environment configuration. The workflow uploads coverage and Allure artifacts by stage and uploads per-test logs on failure. The CI filter and artifact uploader documentation were updated.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8f7f

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