CI: add vLLM + NIXL EP test to the EP CI job

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Add vLLM + NIXL EP integration coverage to the existing NIXL EP CI job. vLLM runs test_elastic_ep_scaling with nixl_ep as the all-to-all backend, scaling 2->4->2.

• Resolve the latest stable vLLM tag whenever the EP base image is rebuilt.
• Install its CUDA 13 aarch64 precompiled binaries with VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED, pinned to the resolved release commit.
• Build NIXL EP and run native elastic.py and vLLM from the same venv and Torch installation to keep their ABIs aligned.
• test_elastic_ep_scaling run only with enforce_eager_heavy and cuda_graphs_heavy to reduce CI runtime. The omitted eager variants should be covered by nightly or RC.
• Run elastic.py and vLLM tests on the same GPU allocation, and adjust timeouts.
• Patch the upstream vLLM test to select nixl_ep and pass --attention-backend CUTLASS_MLA, avoiding the failing FlashInfer attention-kernel JIT path. Rebuild the base image when the test patch changes.
• Prevent SPCx from loading HPC-X UCX 1.21 into Ray workers because NIXL EP requires UCX 1.22+.
• Print the resolved vLLM tag and commit before testing.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added CI coverage for native NIXL Elastic EP and vLLM-based Elastic EP scaling tests.
  • Added configurable all-to-all and attention backends for vLLM tests.
  • Added optional Python interpreter selection for NIXL builds and GPU test environments.
  • Added automated setup and validation for vLLM release testing.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved test reliability by validating required environments and detecting skipped scaling tests.

• Documentation

  • Updated CI descriptions to reflect expanded NIXL EP and vLLM test coverage.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-test-sanitizers · commit a2e7b576

TL;DR: The ASAN sanitizer gtest suite failed on a single unrelated test, ucx_tracing_no_pt/TestTransferTracing.NvtxNotifications/0, which received 0 of 4 expected UCX notifications in the no-progress-thread configuration; this is a pre-existing flaky notification-delivery failure, not caused by PR #2154 (which only adds a vLLM CI job). Re-run the sanitizer job / retry /build; if it reproduces, fix the notification polling in the test rather than the PR.

Full analysis

Summary: The Test Sanitizer stage (ASAN variant, node 211) exited 1 because the meson gtest suite reported 1 failed test out of 225.

Root cause: ucx_tracing_no_pt/TestTransferTracing.NvtxNotifications/0 failed at test/gtest/test_transfer.cpp:334 — EXPECT_EQ(notif_list.size(), expected_count) got 0 vs 4. In the no_pt (progress-thread OFF) config, notifications are only pumped by explicit getNotifs() polling; none of the 4 genNotif messages were delivered. The test spun through all retries (~101.8 s, versus 68 ms for the same test with the progress thread ON) and then failed; the trailing UCX AM send failed with status -16 (Request canceled) errors are the queued sends being aborted during agent teardown, i.e. a consequence, not the cause. PR #2154 only adds a vLLM Elastic EP CI integration test and touches no NIXL C++/UCX code, and test_transfer.cpp has no commits from this PR — so this is a pre-existing flaky UCX notification-delivery failure in the no-progress-thread tracing variant.

Implicated commit: unknown — not introduced by PR #2154 (commit a2e7b57). Last functional change to the test area was 471a64e (e-eygin, "tracing: NVTX completeness + cross-thread correlation", #1852), but no evidence ties the failure to a specific commit.

File: test/gtest/test_transfer.cpp:334 (assertion); notification polling at lines 361–364 / 317–334.

Suggested fix: Re-trigger the sanitizer build (/build) to confirm it's flaky; the PR itself needs no change. To de-flake the test, harden notification delivery in the no-progress-thread path — after all sender threads join, drain notifications with a bounded getNotifs() retry loop on both from and to agents before asserting the count (the current per-iteration poll inside the sender threads can race and miss late-arriving AMs), rather than raising the retry timeout.

Related: PR #2154 (the PR under test); #1852 (last NVTX notification tracing change). No existing issue tracks this specific flaky test.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-gpu · commit a2e7b576

TL;DR: The final nixl_test client-server C++ test aborted (exit 134) because its metadata listener failed to bind port 15903 with EADDRINUSE; the CI port-picker in common.sh handed out a port that wasn't actually free. This is a flaky CI port-allocation bug, not a product defect.

Full analysis

Summary: "Run CPP tests" stage failed at the last step — nixl_test target/initiator — with Socket Bind failed while setting up listener for MD: Address already in use [98], throwing std::runtime_error("Failed to bind metadata listener socket") and terminating (srun exit code 134).

Root cause: get_next_tcp_port() in .ci/scripts/common.sh selected port 15903, but that port was not free when nixl_test tried to bind. The check while ss -tuln | grep -q :$next_port (line 50) is unreliable: (1) it's a TOCTOU race — the port can be taken (or left in TIME_WAIT from a prior test in the shared /tmp/nixl_tcp_port_18 range) between the check and the actual bind(); and (2) grep -q :$next_port is a loose substring match that both misses and mismatches ports. The metadata listener has no bind-retry/SO_REUSEADDR fallback, so the collision is fatal. All 237 gtests and the POSIX/GUSLI/UCX suites passed — only this final port-dependent step tripped, and the log shows continuous activity up to the abort (no hang/timeout).

Implicated commit: Not the PR under test (a2e7b57, nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled — vLLM precompiled EP CI changes, unrelated to socket binding). The flaky logic predates it; port handling in .gitlab/test_cpp.sh:118-119 last touched by fe68dce (Colin Hirsch, "Fail CPP tests if either nixl_test fails") and the picker lives in .ci/scripts/common.sh.

File: .ci/scripts/common.sh:38-61 (get_next_tcp_port, esp. line 50); triggered at .gitlab/test_cpp.sh:118-119; fatal at src/core/metadata_stream.cpp:83.

Suggested fix: Make port acquisition robust rather than best-effort:

• Retry nixl_test on bind failure with a fresh port (wrap lines 118-119 in a retry loop), and/or have the metadata listener set SO_REUSEADDR and retry a new port on EADDRINUSE instead of throwing.
• Tighten the free-port check: use an exact match (ss -tuln | awk '{print $5}' | grep -qE "[:.]$next_port\$") and actually bind-test the port immediately before use to close the TOCTOU window.
  Since this is unrelated to PR CI: add vLLM + NIXL EP test to the EP CI job #2154's changes, re-running the build will very likely pass.

Related: PR #1294 (fe68dce, made either nixl_test failure fail the stage) and PR #1323 ("TEST: Fail more reliably") are the closest prior work on this test path; no existing issue tracks the port-collision flakiness.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit a2e7b576

TL;DR: The nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep #844 test stage failed because every vLLM elastic-EP server crashed in nixl_ep's Buffer::connect_ranks with cudaErrorIllegalAddress at examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:506; the fault surfaces on the cudaDeviceSynchronize() after cache_p2p_ptr() during high-throughput NVLink P2P setup on GB200, so the fix belongs in the nixl_ep connect/P2P-caching path (or its GB200 wheel build), not in the test/timeout.

Full analysis

Summary: All 4 parametrizations of tests/distributed/test_elastic_ep.py::test_elastic_ep_scaling failed with "Server exited unexpectedly" because the vLLM API server died during model load when nixl_ep initialized its all2all buffer.

Root cause: During NixlEPAll2AllManager buffer init, buffer.connect_ranks() → nixl_ep_cu13/buffer.py:856 → native Buffer::connect_ranks raises RuntimeError: Failed: CUDA error ../examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:506 'an illegal memory access was encountered'. In the source, the new_ranks branch (lines 509–521) runs cache_p2p_ptr(gpu_ctx_ptr, remote_rank, comm_stream) for each new rank and then cudaDeviceSynchronize() at line 521 — which is where an async illegal-address fault from the P2P-pointer caching kernel is reported. It reproduced identically on all 4 configs (eager and cudagraph) on the same healthy node gb-nvl-118-compute08 (GB200 NVL), so it is a deterministic defect in the nixl_ep high-throughput NVLink P2P setup as exercised by this PR's newly-added vLLM+nixl_ep EP test, not a transient/hardware issue. The nixl_ep_cu13 wheel is a precompiled CUDA-13 build (per branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled), so a CUDA-13/GB200 (sm_100/sm_110) build or ABI mismatch in the P2P caching path is the most likely trigger. (Note: line 506 is the remote_mds push in the loop; the actual GPU fault is thrown at the cudaDeviceSynchronize() a few lines below, which the runtime attributes to the last CUDA op in the file.)

Implicated commit: Most likely c5a9850f (Itay Alroy, "nixl_ep: Allow CUDA graph reuse across rank changes", #2095) — the most recent change to connect_ranks/rank-change handling in nixl_ep.cpp. The failing run is PR #2154 on branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled, which builds on the vLLM+nixl_ep EP CI work (#2123).

File: examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:519–521 (cache_p2p_ptr + cudaDeviceSynchronize in Buffer::connect_ranks); surfaced via nixl_ep_cu13/buffer.py:856 and vllm/distributed/device_communicators/all2all.py:435.

Suggested fix: Debug the P2P-pointer caching path on GB200/CUDA-13: rebuild nixl_ep_cu13 with the correct GB200 arch flags (sm_100/sm_110) and re-run with CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1 to pin the faulting kernel, then verify cache_p2p_ptr (and the buffer_ptrs_gpu/barrier_signal_ptrs_gpu device pointers set up in _ipc_handles_sync) are valid for the ranks being connected. Given the recent connect_ranks rework in #2095, review whether new_ranks/gpu_ctx_ptr state is correctly initialized for the initial DP=2 connect on this path. Do not treat this as a test flake or bump the 7200s timeout — the failure is an immediate, reproducible CUDA fault.

Related: PR #2123 (CI: add VLLM+nixl_ep test to EP CI job); commit c5a9850 / PR #2095 (connect_ranks rank-change handling).

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit a2e7b576

TL;DR: The nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep #845 vLLM Elastic-EP test fails on all 4 variants with a deterministic CUDA "illegal memory access" thrown inside NIXL EP's native Buffer::connect_ranks (examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:506) during buffer setup — a bug in the high-throughput rank-connect / IPC-handle path, not infra or a timeout.

Full analysis

Summary: tests/distributed/test_elastic_ep.py::test_elastic_ep_scaling (enforce_eager_none/light/heavy, cuda_graphs_heavy) all abort at server startup; the vLLM API server exits because the NIXL EP all2all buffer fails to connect ranks with a CUDA IMA.

Root cause: In the NIXL EP high-throughput path, Buffer.connect_ranks → self.runtime.connect_ranks (nixl_ep_cu13/buffer.py:856) invokes the native Buffer::connect_ranks, which raises CUDA error ../examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:506 'an illegal memory access was encountered'. This is reached via vLLM all2all.py:_init_buffer while building the NixlEPPrepareAndFinalize MoE kernel for DeepSeek-V2-Lite with EP ranks 2→4. Model load, NIXL UCX backend init and agent wire-up all succeed; the IMA happens synchronously in the connect/IPC-buffer setup kernel, and the later torch.cuda.empty_cache() in DeviceMemoryProfiler.__exit__ merely re-reports the already-poisoned context (the reported gpu_model_runner.py:5319 frame is a red herring). The failure is 100% reproducible across all variants and independent of eager vs. CUDA-graph mode, pointing to a defect in the EP rank-connect / IPC-handle-sync code rather than the node — the GB200 node loaded weights cleanly with no drain/OOM/IB errors.

Implicated commit: Most likely c5a9850f — "nixl_ep: Allow CUDA graph reuse across rank changes (#2095)", Itay Alroy — the newest change to examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp and it directly reworks the rank-change/connect path exercised here. (Attribution is by proximity to the failing code + recency; confirm by diffing #2095 around connect_ranks/_ipc_handles_sync.)

File: examples/device/ep/csrc/nixl_ep.cpp:506 (in Buffer::connect_ranks, around the new_ranks / _ipc_handles_sync / per-rank cudaMemset(sync_count_ptr + remote_rank, …) logic, lines ~494–514), surfaced through src/bindings/python/…/nixl_ep_cu13/buffer.py:856.

Suggested fix: Debug the connect path with CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1 to get the precise faulting kernel/line, then audit the rank-indexed device writes in connect_ranks/_ipc_handles_sync for an out-of-bounds address: the per-rank cudaMemset(sync_count_ptr + remote_rank, ...) / sync_buffer_ptr + remote_rank and the buffer_ptrs/barrier_signal_ptrs GPU copies index by global remote_rank (0..max_num_ranks) into buffers that may only be sized for the initial rank count — with elastic scaling 2→4 a newly added rank's index can exceed the allocated bounds. Verify these arrays are sized to max_num_ranks (from VLLM_NIXL_EP_MAX_NUM_RANKS=4) and that #2095's rank-change reuse path doesn't reference a freed/undersized sync_*/buffer_ptrs_gpu allocation. As an immediate unblock, revert/bisect #2095 on this branch to confirm it is the trigger.

Related: PR #2095 (c5a9850, rank-change/CUDA-graph reuse in nixl_ep); prior elastic-EP work #7291c57d (#1584) and #a3943418 (#1693). This PR is #2154 on branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-test-sanitizers · commit cfd55488

TL;DR: The TSAN sanitizer gtest suite failed on the single test MDManagerEtcdFixture.InvalidateLocalRemovesRemote, which asserts that after invalidateLocalMD() a remote checkRemoteMD() becomes NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND within a 3s poll but it stayed NIXL_SUCCESS. The etcd metadata invalidation didn't propagate to the remote agent within the (TSAN-slowed) 3-second window — a flaky timing assertion, unrelated to this PR's changes.

Full analysis

Summary: Test Sanitizer stage (TSAN, node 224) failed because the meson nixl:sanitizer / gtest suite had 1 failing test out of 225; all standalone sanitizer binaries passed.

Root cause: MDManagerEtcdFixture.InvalidateLocalRemovesRemote (test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:298) expected waitForRemoteMD(..., NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND) to return NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND (-4) but got NIXL_SUCCESS (0). After invalidateLocalMD(nullptr), the dst agent's checkRemoteMD kept succeeding for the full 3s poll window (waitForRemoteMD default timeout = 3s). The etcd delete/watch propagation is asynchronous — the etcd example log in the same build shows deletion/watch events taking seconds (delete at 17:12:10, a 15s watch timeout at 17:12:25) — and under TSAN instrumentation the propagation regularly exceeds the hard-coded 3-second bound. This is a flaky async-timing assertion, not a code regression: this PR (#2154, branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled) only touches VLLM/EP CI plumbing and does not touch the metadata manager or etcd backend. The whole gtest suite otherwise passed (202 passed, 22 skipped) and completed in 89s with no hang.

Implicated commit: 2ff0105f (aschwartz12, "Metadata manager pr5" #1930) — introduced this test with the 3s timeout.

File: test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:298 (assertion) and test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:83 (waitForRemoteMD default 3s timeout / 25ms interval).

Suggested fix: Make the assertion robust to slow async etcd propagation under sanitizers rather than relying on a 3s bound: raise the waitForRemoteMD timeout substantially for this case (e.g. 15–30s, matching the etcd watch timeout observed in the logs) and/or scale it when running under TSAN/ASAN. If the etcd delete should be observable more quickly, investigate why the remote checkRemoteMD still returns NIXL_SUCCESS after invalidateLocalMD — the watch-driven cache eviction on the dst agent may not be firing promptly. Since the failure is unrelated to PR #2154, a re-run will likely pass, but the test should be hardened to stop blocking unrelated PRs.

Related: PR #1930 (added the test); build PR #2154 / #2123 (VLLM+nixl_ep EP CI — unrelated to the failure). No existing issue tracks this flake — worth filing one.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit cfd55488

TL;DR: The nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep build failed in the "Allocate DL EP Environment" stage because salloc could not obtain a gb200nvl72_cx8 node within its 1-hour --immediate window and ended with Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out — a cluster/scheduler capacity issue, not a code defect. Re-run the build once the partition has free nodes.

Full analysis

Summary: Slurm allocation (salloc) for the GB200 EP test environment failed after waiting the full immediate-timeout window.

Root cause: In stage 199, the pipeline ran salloc -N 1 -p gb200nvl72_cx8 ... --immediate=3600 --time=03:30:00 --no-shell --account=blackwell on dlcluster.nvidia.com. The job was accepted and queued (Pending job allocation 1933626, job 1933626 queued and waiting for resources) but no node became available. Exactly one hour later (17:28:08 → 18:28:16, matching the --immediate=3600 = 3600s cap) slurm returned error: Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out and the step exited 1. This is a scheduler capacity/connectivity condition on the gb200nvl72_cx8 partition — the earlier build stages (checkout, image build, Docker compile) all succeeded, and the failure is in resource acquisition, not the PR's code. Note: the one-hour gap is not a build hang; it is the intended --immediate wait for resources, so raising the job time limit would not help.

Implicated commit: unknown — not caused by commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]; failure is environmental (slurm allocation).

File: N/A (Jenkins pipeline slurm.allocation step in swx-jenkins-lib; no repo source file implicated)

Suggested fix: Retry the build when the gb200nvl72_cx8 partition has capacity. If this recurs, (1) check partition/node availability and the blackwell account limits with the DL cluster admins for allocation 1933626, and (2) consider increasing immediateTimeout / adding automatic retry-on-allocation-timeout in the slurm.allocation pipeline step so transient scheduler contention doesn't fail the whole CI run. This is infrastructure follow-up, not a code change.

Related: none

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-wheel · commit d1ec2a43

TL;DR: The x86_64 nixl-wheel-base-cu13-manylinux_2_28 image build failed at Dockerfile STEP 23/65 because wget -q https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz exited with status 8 (HTTP server error / file not found) within ~1 second; fix it by fetching OpenSSL from a stable mirror (e.g. GitHub releases) and/or retrying, as was already done for libxml2.

Full analysis

Summary: Docker image stage "Setup Image x86_64/nixl-wheel-base-cu13-manylinux_2_28/1" (stage #43) failed while building the wheel_base image.

Root cause: The OpenSSL download step could not retrieve openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz from www.openssl.org. wget returned exit status 8, which is wget's "server issued an error response" code (e.g. HTTP 404/403/5xx). The failure was immediate (19:39:20 start → 19:39:21 subprocess exited with status 8), so this is not a hang or timeout — it is a hard failure fetching the tarball. openssl.org restructures/retires its /source/ tarballs (old point releases like 3.0.16 get moved to /source/old/), so the direct URL is fragile and broke the build. The whole build aborted with "pipline stop on build_helper_vllm" once this base image failed.

Implicated commit: Not a code regression — the failing RUN wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz ... step is a pre-existing fragile external download in the wheel_base Dockerfile (stage introduced by #1870, "ci: split Dockerfile.manylinux into wheel_base/wheel stages"). It failed now because the upstream URL became unavailable, not because of PR #2154's changes.

File: contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux wheel_base stage, the RUN cd /tmp && wget -q https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz && ... step (STEP 23/65 in the build log). (Exact path is the wheel_base split-out Dockerfile; the identical command appears verbatim in the stage log.)

Suggested fix: Stop pulling OpenSSL directly from www.openssl.org. Either:

• Point the download at the stable GitHub release asset, e.g. https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/download/openssl-3.0.16/openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz, or the /source/old/3.0/ path; and
• Make wget resilient: add wget --retry-connrefused --tries=5 --timeout=30 and verify a checksum after download.

This is the same hardening already applied to libxml2 in PR #2033 ("clone libxml2 from the GitHub mirror") and to the Ubuntu mirror in #1961; the OpenSSL step should get the same treatment. As an interim unblock, re-running the build may succeed if openssl.org restores the file, but the URL should be migrated to a stable mirror to prevent recurrence.

Related: PR #2033 (libxml2 → GitHub mirror), PR #1961 (switch to NVIDIA internal mirror), PR #1870 (wheel_base/wheel Dockerfile split that introduced this stage).

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu · commit 67b2e304

TL;DR: The Run DL Python tests stage failed because test_prep_mem_view errored: on GB200, UCX's device memory-list creation rejected the memory handle (invalid memh for md_index=6/7 → NIXL_ERR_BACKEND) when prep_mem_view was called on the locally-registered VRAM buffer. This is a UCX GPU-device-API incompatibility in the newly-added prepMemView test path, not an infra failure.

Full analysis

Summary: test/python/test_nixl_api.py::test_prep_mem_view failed in stage 219 on node gb200-nvl4-ts2-65; the build itself (stage 166's failure) is superseded — the real regression is the Python test.

Root cause: The spawned worker (rank 0) called agent.prep_mem_view(get_xfer_descs([(addr,size,dev)], mem_type="VRAM")) (test line 293, local overload). Inside UCX, createMemList failed: ucp_device.c:248 invalid memh for md_index=6 → failed to pack local mem list element for element=0 → failed to create local mem list handle: Invalid parameter, which nixlUcxEngine::prepMemView (ucx_backend.cpp:1492) caught and returned as NIXL_ERR_BACKEND, surfacing as nixl_cu13._bindings.nixlBackendError. The registered VRAM memory handle for this GPU's memory domain is not valid for the UCX GPU device mem-list API on this UCX build (1.22.0) / GB200 configuration — the same class of UCX-version sensitivity the test's own comment (lines 234–237) already flags. A trailing cuda_ctx.c:23 cuDevicePrimaryCtxGetState ... unrecognized error code 4 shows the child then failed CUDA context teardown.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (x41lakazam, "BINDINGS/PYTHON: Expose prepMemView (local + remote overloads) … #1715") — this is the commit that introduced test_prep_mem_view and the prep_mem_view binding it exercises.

File: test/python/test_nixl_api.py:293 (local prep_mem_view); UCX-side error at src/plugins/ucx/ucx_backend.cpp:1492 via nixl::ucx::createMemList.

Suggested fix: Investigate createMemList's handling of the local VRAM memory handle on UCX 1.22 GB200 — the invalid memh for md_index indicates the registered memh isn't exposing a valid device-capable md for the mem-list pack. Short term, gate test_prep_mem_view (and the prep_mem_view local path) on a verified UCX device-API capability check rather than just HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API, or skip when the registered memory's md is not device-list-capable, so the test doesn't fail on incompatible UCX builds. Longer term, prepMemView should validate/select a device-capable md before calling the UCX device mem-list API and return a clearer error. Loop in the author of PR #1715.

Related: PR #1715 (commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]) which added this test and binding.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit 67b2e304

TL;DR: The DL EP tests failed because FlashInfer's TRT-LLM-gen MLA decode kernel fails to JIT-compile at runtime — nvcc reports CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE, CU_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE_ALLOW_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY, and CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK as undefined — so DeepSeek-V2 attention never runs, GSM8K accuracy is 0.0, and the EP all2all then times out. Fix by aligning the FlashInfer version with the CUDA toolkit/driver in the DL EP image (or pin a FlashInfer build whose fmhaKernels.cuh doesn't reference those newer CUDA driver symbols).

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep #856 — all 4 test_elastic_ep_scaling variants failed on GB200 (sm_100a) in the "Run DL NIXL EP tests" stage.

Root cause: Runtime FlashInfer JIT build of fmha_gen (trtllm_fmha_kernel_launcher.cu) fails with 4 nvcc errors: identifiers CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE (fmhaKernels.cuh:136), CU_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE_ALLOW_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY (:136, :157), and CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK (:169) are undefined. These are newer CUDA driver-API enum values; the FlashInfer headers bundled in the image (flashinfer 0.6.16.post3) reference them but the cuda.h in the toolkit (CUDA 13.3, driver 610.43.02) being compiled against doesn't define them — a FlashInfer/CUDA-header version mismatch. Because FLASHINFER_MLA is the selected MLA decode backend for DeepSeek-V2, this build failure aborts every forward pass: the engine hits KeyError in the scheduler (the request errored out before producing tokens), GSM8K scores 0.0, and the NIXL-EP dispatch on rank 1 times out ("Mask: [1, 0]") waiting on the dead rank 0. The cuda_graphs_heavy variant fails identically but during warmup, so the server never comes up ("Server failed to start in time"). The NIXL EP timeout and the KeyError are symptoms, not the cause.

Implicated commit: unknown — not a nixl source regression; the trigger is the FlashInfer/CUDA package versions baked into the nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep-base-pytorch26.06-cuda13.3-ubuntu24.04 image and the precompiled vLLM (branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled).

File: flashinfer/data/include/flashinfer/trtllm/fmha/fmhaKernels.cuh:136,157,169 (in the installed flashinfer 0.6.16.post3 wheel); MLA backend selected at vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashinfer_mla.py:335.

Suggested fix: Rebuild the DL EP image with a FlashInfer version whose vendored fmhaKernels.cuh matches the CUDA 13.3 toolkit headers (upgrade/downgrade FlashInfer so it stops referencing the oversized-shared-memory driver symbols, or bump the CUDA toolkit/cuda.h to a version that defines CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE etc.). As an immediate CI unblock, force a non-TRT-LLM MLA backend for these tests (e.g. CUTLASS_MLA/TRITON_MLA via env/arg) so the TRT-LLM-gen fmha kernel is never JIT-built on sm_100a.

Related: none found.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit 67b2e304

TL;DR: All four test_elastic_ep_scaling variants failed because FlashInfer's JIT compilation of the TRT-LLM-Gen MLA decode kernel (fmha_gen) fails to build — nvcc reports CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE, CU_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE_ALLOW_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY, and CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK as undefined; pin the CUDA toolkit / FlashInfer versions so these driver-API symbols resolve.

Full analysis

Summary: Stage "Run DL NIXL EP tests" (#219) failed — every GSM8K eval returned accuracy 0.000 (below 0.58) and the last server never started, all because the vLLM engine crashes on first decode.

Root cause: On the GB200 (sm_100a) node, DeepSeek-V2-Lite selects the FLASHINFER_MLA backend, whose forward_mqa path JIT-compiles the fmha_gen (trtllm_batch_decode_with_kv_cache_mla) kernel at first decode. That nvcc compile fails with 4 errors in flashinfer/data/include/flashinfer/trtllm/fmha/fmhaKernels.cuh (lines 136/157/169): CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE, CU_SHARED_MEMORY_MODE_ALLOW_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY, and CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK are undefined — these are newer CUDA driver-API (cuda.h) enum values that the installed CUDA headers do not provide, i.e. a FlashInfer-vs-CUDA-toolkit version mismatch in the precompiled vLLM image. The build failure raises RuntimeError: Ninja build failed, which kills the EngineCore; the scheduler then hits KeyError on the aborted request in scheduler.py:1761, and the surviving DP rank reports the downstream NIXL-EP timeout ... dispatch/combine — a symptom of the peer engine already being dead, not the cause. GSM8K therefore scores 0.0 and the final cuda_graphs_heavy server fails to start at all.

Implicated commit: unknown (not a repo source defect; the failure is in the precompiled vLLM/FlashInfer environment baked into the nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep image — FlashInfer 0.6.16.post3 against CUDA 13.3 headers). Branch nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled / PR #2154 switched to a precompiled vLLM image, which is what surfaced this.

File: .venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/flashinfer/data/include/flashinfer/trtllm/fmha/fmhaKernels.cuh:136 (also 157, 169); triggered via vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashinfer_mla.py:335 (forward_mqa → trtllm_batch_decode_with_kv_cache_mla).

Suggested fix: Align FlashInfer with the CUDA toolkit in the precompiled DL-EP image so the oversized-shared-memory driver-API symbols resolve — either upgrade the CUDA toolkit/headers to the version FlashInfer 0.6.16.post3 expects, or pin FlashInfer to a build compatible with CUDA 13.3. As an immediate CI unblock, force DeepSeek-V2-Lite MLA off the TRT-LLM-Gen path on this image (e.g. set VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND/MLA backend to TRITON_MLA or CUTLASS_MLA, or disable the flashinfer trtllm-gen decode kernel) so no runtime nvcc JIT of fmha_gen is needed. Note the wall-time (SIGTERM at 17:28) is a symptom — the engine died at first decode; do not raise the timeout.

Related: PR #2154 (nixl_ep_ci_vllm_precompiled). none other found.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit 4e352756

TL;DR: The Allocate DL EP Environment stage failed because salloc on the gb200nvl72_cx8 partition sat queued for the full --immediate=3600 (1-hour) window without getting resources and returned "Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out" — a cluster capacity/scheduling problem, not a code bug. Re-run when GB200 nodes are free, and/or raise immediateTimeout or add retry/backoff on allocation.

Full analysis

Summary: Slurm allocation for the DL EP test environment timed out; the job stayed queued and salloc --immediate=3600 failed after ~60 minutes.

Root cause: In stage Allocate DL EP Environment (node 199), salloc -N 1 -p gb200nvl72_cx8 --immediate=3600 ... --account=blackwell was issued at 05:48:13Z. Slurm accepted it (Pending job allocation 1939142, queued and waiting for resources) but no GB200 node became available within the 3600 s immediate window, so at 06:48:22Z salloc returned error: Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out and the stage exited 1. This is a single blocking scheduler call that legitimately consumed its whole timeout waiting for scarce GB200 (gb200nvl72_cx8) capacity — not a hang in build code and not a defect in PR #2154. All prior stages (checkout, base image, Docker compile) succeeded.

Implicated commit: unknown (not a code-caused failure; the tested change is PR #2154 / commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String], but the failure is infra/scheduling)

File: N/A — failure is in Jenkins stage Allocate DL EP Environment (slurm salloc), not a repo source file. Allocation params: partition:gb200nvl72_cx8, immediateTimeout:3600, account=blackwell.

Suggested fix: Re-run the build when gb200nvl72_cx8 capacity is available. To make this robust, add a bounded retry/backoff around the slurm.allocation call, and/or increase immediateTimeout if longer queue waits are expected. Optionally check partition occupancy (sinfo -p gb200nvl72_cx8, squeue -p gb200nvl72_cx8) with the cluster admins to confirm this was contention rather than nodes being drained/down.

Related: PR #2154 (the change under test); no existing issue tracks this allocation timeout.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu · commit 4e6201ad

TL;DR: The Run DL Python tests stage failed because test/python/test_nixl_api.py::test_prep_mem_view errored out when UCX rejected the registered VRAM handle (invalid memh for md_index=6/7) inside prep_mem_view; this is a UCX GPU-device-API / backend failure on the GB200 node, unrelated to PR #2154's CI-only changes, so the fix is to fix/skip the device-API path, not to touch the PR.

Full analysis

Summary: Stage 219 "Run DL Python tests" failed: test_prep_mem_view raised nixl_cu13._bindings.nixlBackendError: NIXL_ERR_BACKEND from agent.prep_mem_view(...).

Root cause: The spawned worker's local prep_mem_view call (test line 293-295) went into the UCX backend nixlUcxEngine::prepMemView → nixl::ucx::createMemList, and UCX's device-memory-list packer rejected the registered VRAM memory handle:

ucp_device.c:248  invalid memh for md_index=6   (rank 0) / md_index=7 (rank 1)
ucp_device.c:340  failed to pack local mem list element for element=0
ucp_device.c:439  failed to create local mem list handle: Invalid parameter
ucx_backend.cpp:1492 Failed to prepare local memory view: ... Invalid parameter

The registered VRAM buffer has no valid memory handle for the memory-domain index the UCX GPU device API expects on this GB200-NVL4 node — i.e. the UCX build/environment does not properly support the device-API path here. The subsequent cuDevicePrimaryCtxGetState ... unrecognized error code 4 (CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED) and the SIGTERM are teardown symptoms after the first worker already failed, not the cause. This is a backend/environment failure, not caused by PR #2154, which only adds a vLLM EP integration test (no C++, no change to test_prep_mem_view).

Implicated commit: Not the PR under test. The failing test/feature was introduced by [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (x41lakazam, "BINDINGS/PYTHON: Expose prepMemView (local + remote overloads)", #1715). The failure itself is in the UCX device-API path (src/plugins/ucx/ucx_backend.cpp createMemList), unchanged by this PR.

File: test/python/test_nixl_api.py:293 (worker prep_mem_view call) → src/plugins/ucx/ucx_backend.cpp:1492 (nixlUcxEngine::prepMemView local overload / nixl::ucx::createMemList).

Suggested fix: This is not a defect in PR #2154 — re-run/rebase to confirm it is a pre-existing failure. For the real bug: test_prep_mem_view guards only on HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API and device_count() >= 2, but the UCX device memory-list creation still fails with invalid memh on this GB200 node, meaning the VRAM handle isn't valid for the device API in this environment. Investigate why createMemList gets an invalid memh for the registered VRAM descriptor (mem-domain/handle mismatch in the UCX GPU device path), and tighten the skip condition (or fix the registration→device-list handle mapping) so the test only runs where the UCX device API actually accepts the memh. Do not raise any timeout — the failure is an immediate error, not a hang.

Related: PR #2154 (build under test, CI-only); #1715 (introduced prep_mem_view and this test).

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-wheel · commit 4e6201ad

TL;DR: Both aarch64 legs failed at the "Allocate Environment" step because salloc on the gb200nvl72_ci partition of dlcluster.nvidia.com waited the full --immediate=3600 (1 hour) for a node, got none, and exited with "Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out." This is a slurm resource/scheduling availability problem, not a build or code defect.

Full analysis

Summary: The wheel build, auditwheel repair, and vLLM image build/push all succeeded; the pipeline then failed trying to allocate a GPU node via slurm salloc.

Root cause: salloc -N 1 -p gb200nvl72_ci --immediate=3600 --time=01:30:00 --no-shell --account=oberon-gb-ci submitted job allocation 1941110, which stayed "queued and waiting for resources" for the entire 1-hour --immediate window and then aborted with Unable to allocate resources: Connection timed out. The gb200nvl72_ci partition had no free nodes within the immediate window. Timestamps confirm the process was legitimately waiting (submit at 10:18:47, timeout at exactly 11:18:55 ≈ 3600s) — this is expected salloc queue-wait behavior, not a code hang; the node just never became available. Stages 488/489 (build_helper_vllm/sglang) and 671/654 (Allocate Environment) all share this same salloc failure.

Implicated commit: unknown — infrastructure/scheduling issue, not attributable to a source commit (the PR's build work all passed).

File: Jenkins pipeline slurm allocation step (slurm.allocation in the swx-jenkins-lib shared library); partition gb200nvl72_ci on dlcluster.nvidia.com.

Suggested fix: This is a cluster-capacity/scheduling failure, not a PR defect — retry the build once the gb200nvl72_ci partition has free nodes. If GB200 CI capacity is chronically contended, either raise --immediate (immediateTimeout) to tolerate longer queue waits, request fewer/specific GPU resources instead of exclusive-mode allocation, or route these legs to a less-contended partition. Have an admin verify node availability/drain state and the oberon-gb-ci account's QOS limits on that partition.

Related: none found.

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