build: bump DOCA to 3.5

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What?

Bump build/CI DOCA from 3.3.0-088000-26.01 to 3.5.0-082000-26.07 (8 version-carrying
lines across 5 files), and fix the three things 3.5 breaks:

• GPUNETIO device API — gpunetio_kernels.cu does not compile on 3.5 (two changed
  doca_gpu_dev_verbs_* signatures, three call sites).
• CollectX rpm glob in Dockerfile.manylinux — the bundled RPMs were renamed, so the
  existing pattern matches nothing.
• PyTorch wheel channel (second commit) — DOCA 3.5's apt-get upgrade pushes the
  container builds down a fallback path that resolves to the near-empty cu134 index.

Plus two follow-ups so the bump cannot mislead builds it does not control:

• meson now requires doca-gpunetio >= 3.5, so a 3.4-or-older SDK skips the plugin
  cleanly instead of failing inside nvcc.
• .gitlab/build.sh gets the same CUDA 13 → cu130 mapping as the two Dockerfiles,
  which now log the import failure that selects that path instead of discarding it.

Why?

Keeps the telemetry-exporter plugin and the gpunetio backend on one supported DOCA.
libdoca_common has a single SONAME, so a process binds exactly one DOCA version — the
bump has to be global. Tracking: NIX-1552. Follow-up to #1728 (3.2 → 3.3) and #1748
(un-gate the DOCA telemetry tests). 3.5.0 went public GA on 2026-09-01.

Verified locally against a real 3.5 install (3.3 removed): the full tree compiles clean,
including the GPUNETIO plugin and its CUDA unit test, and 148 telemetry/tracing cases pass
with no failures and no deprecation warnings.

CI: the full matrix was green on 2a398f69. The two follow-up commits change meson's
configure step and CI_IMAGE_TAG, so the matrix is re-running from a clean base rebuild on
the current head; see the thread for the latest state.

How?

GPUNETIO (src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu). 3.5 changes two signatures:

• doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at() now takes the QP, not the CQ; the CQ-taking form
  was renamed doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_device_at(). Passing qp is equivalent to the
  old doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp_get_cq_sq(qp), since the new function derives the CQ
  internally with a default qp_type of DOCA_GPUNETIO_VERBS_QP_SQ and, for the default
  CQ_64B, delegates straight to poll_cq_device_at(cq, ...).
• doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait() now takes the ticket by value, not by pointer (two call
  sites). doca_gpu_dev_verbs_send() still fills a ticket_t * out-param, so only the
  wait calls change.

This is intentionally not backward-compatible with 3.3, matching the single-SONAME
constraint above.

Because that fix is deliberately 3.5-only, meson.build and the plugin's own dependency
list now carry version: '>=3.5' on doca-gpunetio. Verified against the installed SDK
(pkg-config reports 3.5.0098): with the constraint the plugin still builds, and with the
bound artificially raised meson configures successfully, prints Found 3.5.0098 but need: '>=3.9', and the summary reports DOCA GPUNETIO found : NO — a clean skip rather than an
nvcc error deep in the plugin. The explicit-enable path now names the version in its error,
and gpunetio.md states the 3.5.0 minimum (its CUDA minimum is corrected to 12.8, matching
the nvcc gate the build has always applied).

CollectX. The RPMs bundled in the rhel8 doca-host installer were renamed, so
collectx_*rpm matches nothing in 3.5 and nixl-ci-build-wheel fails on that line (the
only lane that failed in the 3.3 bump). Now collectx-clxapi*rpm, matching exactly the two
required packages and nothing else.

• 3.3: collectx_1.24.3-42670887-rhel8.6-x86_64-clxapi[dev].rpm
• 3.5: collectx-clxapi-1.26.3-1.x86_64.rpm, collectx-clxapidev-1.26.3-1.x86_64.rpm

PyTorch channel detail — why cu134 fails

Both cuda13.4 container images derived the wheel index from CUDA_VERSION, giving
download.pytorch.org/whl/cu134. That channel does exist (cu133 403s), but it is
nearly empty — nothing newer than torch 2.0.1 and no cp312 wheels at all — so uv resolves
down to 2.0.1 and fails on the ABI tag. Measured torch listings:

Channel	Files	cp312 wheels	torch versions
cu130	267	48	2.9 – 2.14
cu132	183	24	2.12 – 2.14
cu134	98	0	nothing above 2.0

So CUDA 13.x pins to cu130 (wheels are compatible across 13.x) while CUDA 12.x keeps
deriving the minor, since cu126/cu128/cu129 are all real and populated.
Dockerfile.manylinux shares the derivation but is deliberately untouched: it builds on a
cuda13.2 base and cu132 is populated.

.gitlab/build.sh derives the same index from nvcc and gets the same mapping. No lane
reaches it today (cuda12.9 → cu129, the pytorch bases ship torch, nvidia/cuda:13.0.1
→ cu130), but it disagreed with the Dockerfiles.

Latent since the base image moved to cuda13.4: the import torch >= 2.7 probe kept
succeeding on the base image's own torch, so the fallback was never taken. What this bump
changes is that the 3.5 repo is newer than the base's DOCA, so the apt-get upgrade that
pre-dates this PR now actually upgrades packages and leaves that torch no longer importable.
The probe discarded the interpreter's stderr, so the exact ImportError was never recorded
— it is now logged before the fallback runs, in all three install paths.

Verification detail

Local run against DOCA 3.5 (installed in the devcontainer, 3.3 pruned) — 148 cases, 0
failures: the 16 DOCA exporter cases (doca_test, doca_nixl_test,
histogram_parity_test, including the end-to-end /metrics HTTP scrapes), 103 telemetry
gtests (incl. all six prometheus_mp suites), 29 tracing / UCX transfer-telemetry cases,
plus telemetry_benchmark and tracing_nsys. No deprecation warnings.

Static checks against the published 3.5.0 packages:

• The telemetry exporter needs no source change. All 18
  doca_telemetry_exporter_metrics_* declarations are byte-identical to 3.3 and still
  DOCA_EXPERIMENTAL, so the -Wdeprecated-declarations pragmas in doca_exporter.cpp
  and the test cpp_args stay as they are. The only telemetry header changes are the
  schema API graduating to DOCA_STABLE, one new unused function, and doxygen typos.
  (This covers the exporter only — the GPUNETIO API did break, see above.)
• No ABI break. libdoca_common.so.2 and libdoca_telemetry_exporter.so.2 keep their
  SONAME.
• Artifacts and package names. All six doca-host artifacts exist (ubuntu2404 and
  ubuntu2204 debs, rhel8 rpm, amd64/arm64 each), range-verified 206; every apt/rpm
  package name these scripts install is unchanged in 3.5. 3.5.0 ships rhel8, so the
  manylinux base is untouched.
• el9 gpunetio is safe. 3.5's rhel8 installer ships doca-sdk-gpunetio built for el9
  while the rest is el8. Its ELF dynamic section needs at most GLIBC_2.4 /
  GLIBCXX_3.4.18 with no RPATH — well under manylinux_2_28's glibc 2.28, and more
  conservative than DOCA's own Ubuntu 3.3 build, which needs GLIBC_2.34.
• CI_IMAGE_TAG needs no manual bump (unlike build: bump DOCA to 3.3 and build the DOCA telemetry exporter in CI #1728): .ci/cidemo-init.sh derives it
  from commits touching its CI_FILES list, which includes .gitlab/build.sh and
  contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux.

rdma-core note. 3.5's libdoca_common additionally requires MLX5_1.27, i.e. the
co-versioned rdma-core (2607.0.8) from the same DOCA train; 3.3 needed MLX5_1.25. The
Ubuntu lanes get this for free — they apt-get upgrade after the DOCA repo is added, and
build.sh force-reinstalls the RDMA packages from it. The manylinux lane is unaffected: it
builds release-only, so meson skips subdir('test') and never links a DOCA executable,
only the plugin, whose -shared link tolerates the symbols.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Blossom-CI · commit 72a75f0e

TL;DR: No build ever ran — the Blossom-CI Authorization gate refused to auto-trigger because PR #2250's head commit 72a75f0e is unsigned, and blossom-ci exits 255 on that policy decline, turning an intentional "use a manual trigger" decision into a red CI failure. Fix by triggering with a /build comment (or signing/force-pushing the branch), and make the declined-auto-trigger path exit 0 so it stops reporting as a failure.

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Summary: The Authorization job of the Blossom-CI workflow failed with exit code 255 during the blossom-ci AUTH step; no compile, test, or Jenkins job was ever started.

Root cause: Purely a trigger-authorization policy gate, not a code or infra defect. The run was fired by the pull_request_target event (Evaluating: ... ('pull_request_target' == 'pull_request_target') → Result: true). The blossom-ci AUTH helper then evaluated the PR's commits for auto-trigger eligibility and rejected them:

ListCommits for PR auto-trigger - GitHub API rate limits: ...
Commit signature not verified (reason=unsigned); declining auto-trigger
PR State: open
Auto-trigger declined: use manual comment trigger
##[error]Process completed with exit code 255.

The policy requires a verified (signed) head commit before it will auto-start CI for an untrusted PR; commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] on doca-3.5-bump is unsigned. Note the rate-limit line shows 14969/15000 remaining, so this is not throttling. Two secondary points from the same log confirm the gate was working as designed rather than malfunctioning: it validated the workflow against blossom-ci-v3.yaml and flagged untrusted third-party action references (ravitestgit/blossom-action@main, Ranjeet-Nvidia/blossom-action@main) — exactly the supply-chain risk the signature requirement exists to mitigate on pull_request_target.

The reason this shows up as a failure rather than a skip is that blossom-ci returns 255 on the decline path, and the step runs under bash -e with no continue-on-error. Before commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] added the pull_request_target trigger, this job only ran on an explicit /build comment, so the decline path was never reachable on PR sync.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — NirWolfer, 2026-09-07, "CI: Update Blossom CI to support automatic trigger (#2219)". This added the pull_request_target trigger that exposes the decline path. The unsigned commit under test is 72a75f0e (branch doca-3.5-bump, PR #2250).

File: .github/workflows/blossom-ci.yml:15-16 (the pull_request_target trigger) and :33-40 (the Authorization job / blossom-ci AUTH step whose 255 exit fails the run)

Suggested fix: Two parts — unblock this PR, then stop the false red.

1. Unblock PR build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250 now: have an authorized maintainer comment /build on the PR, which is exactly what the log instructs. Alternatively, sign the branch and force-push so auto-trigger is permitted: git rebase --exec 'git commit --amend --no-edit -S' origin/main && git push --force-with-lease (requires user.signingkey / commit.gpgsign configured).
2. Stop reporting a policy decline as a build failure: the "declined auto-trigger" outcome is expected for unsigned community PRs and should be neutral, not failed. Either gate the job so it only runs when an auto-trigger can actually succeed, e.g. add to the Authorization job's if:

   if: github.event.comment.body == '/build' ||
       (github.event_name == 'pull_request_target' &&
        github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository)

   or have the AUTH decline path exit 0 (in the blossom-ci helper on the blossom runner) so the check is skipped/neutral rather than red. The first is preferable since it also avoids burning a runner slot on every unsigned PR sync.

Do not "fix" this by relaxing the signature requirement on pull_request_target — that event runs with repository secrets (BLOSSOM_KEY, CI_SERVER, GITHUB_TOKEN with broad write scopes) against untrusted PR code, and the log already shows untrusted action references in play. Also worth rotating nothing here: no secret values were exposed, the log correctly masked them.

Related: PR #2219 (introduced the auto-trigger / pull_request_target path); PR #771 + revert #775 and PR #748 are prior iterations of this same "auto trigger without comment" problem, suggesting this decline-path-as-failure behavior has regressed before.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request updates DOCA installation references to version 3.5.0 and release 26.07. It updates CUDA 13 wheel selection and GPU networking completion calls.

Changes

DOCA and GPU networking updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
DOCA installation paths and package references .gitlab/build.sh, benchmark/nixlbench/README.md, benchmark/nixlbench/contrib/Dockerfile, contrib/Dockerfile, contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux	Installation scripts, Dockerfiles, and benchmark instructions use DOCA 3.5.0 and release 26.07. CUDA 13 selects the cu130 PyTorch wheel index. The manylinux build updates the CollectX pattern and optional FlexIO SDK and dpacc packages.
GPU completion call arguments and source metadata src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu	GPU networking kernels poll through the queue pair directly and pass notification completion tickets by value. The SPDX copyright range changes to 2025–2026.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a398

A GPU notification failure can be silently acknowledged as successful, leaving transfers or standalone notifications in an incorrect state; this should be fixed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary change: upgrading DOCA to version 3.5.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes complete What, Why, and How sections. It explains the DOCA upgrade, related compatibility fixes, motivation, implementation details, verification, and tracking references.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — AWS NIXL Validation · commit 37788719

TL;DR: The build failed compiling src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu — the PR's own commit bumps DOCA to 3.5 (headers at /opt/mellanox/doca are now 3.5.0098), but the GPUNETIO kernels still use the DOCA 3.2 device-verbs signatures for doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at() and doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait(). Update those three call sites to the 3.5 API.

Full analysis

Summary: ninja step failed: 3 nvcc errors in ../src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu, so libplugin_GPUNETIO.so never built, no wheel was produced (cp: cannot stat 'nixl_build/.../nixl-*.whl'), and the AWS Batch validation job reported FAILED.

Root cause: DOCA GPUNetIO's device verbs API changed between 3.2 and 3.5, and the kernel source was not migrated along with the dependency bump:

• gpunetio_kernels.cu:149 calls doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at(doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp_get_cq_sq(qp), wqe_idx). In DOCA 3.5 (/opt/mellanox/doca/include/doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_cq.cuh:627) the first parameter is now struct doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp *, not a CQ — hence "argument #1 does not match parameter".
• gpunetio_kernels.cu:285 and :377 call doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait(qp, &out_ticket). In DOCA 3.5 (doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_qp.cuh:1646/1661) the overloads are wait(qp) and wait(qp, doca_gpu_dev_verbs_ticket_t) — the ticket is taken by value, so passing a pointer matches neither overload.

The nvcc line confirms the new headers are in use (-I/opt/mellanox/doca/include, meson reported doca-gpunetio found: YES 3.5.0098). This is a source/dependency mismatch, not an infra or flake issue.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — "build: bump DOCA to 3.5", Efraim Eygin (this PR's head commit; it touches contrib/Dockerfile but not the GPUNETIO kernels)

File: src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:149, :285, :377

Suggested fix: In the same PR that bumps DOCA, migrate the kernel call sites:

1. Line 149 → if (doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at(qp, wqe_idx) != 0) (drop the doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp_get_cq_sq() wrapper; verify against the 3.5 signature in doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_cq.cuh:627 in case an extra argument was added).
2. Lines 285 and 377 → pass the ticket by value: doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait(..., out_ticket); instead of &out_ticket.
   Then re-check whether doca_gpu_dev_verbs_send()'s ticket out-parameter is still doca_gpu_dev_verbs_ticket_t * in 3.5 (it compiled, so it appears unchanged). If the plugin must keep supporting DOCA ≤3.2, guard the calls with a DOCA-version #if rather than switching unconditionally.

Related: Prior DOCA-bump precedent: 4d889bc "Upgrade DOCA dependency to 3.2 (#1053)" and fce56d7 "Rework the GPUNetIO backend to use DOCA 3.1 Verbs library (#733)" — both updated gpunetio_kernels.cu together with the version bump; no existing issue found for the 3.5 breakage.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-container-pr · commit 37788719

TL;DR: All four parallel container builds die at Dockerfile step 53/72 because the PyTorch wheel index URL is computed from CUDA_VERSION as https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu134, which publishes no cp312 torch wheels, so uv pip install torch fails with "no wheels with a matching Python ABI tag". Pin/normalize the index to a real one (cu130 for CUDA 13.x) instead of deriving it from the full CUDA minor version.

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Summary: nixl-ci-build-container-pr #627 — every "Build image" stage (x86_64 and aarch64) fails at contrib/Dockerfile step 53/72: uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio → Error: building at STEP ... exit status 1.

Root cause: The torch bootstrap step derives its index as UV_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d .)". With the base image at CUDA 13.4 this yields cu134, which is not a real PyTorch wheel channel (PyTorch publishes cu126/cu128/cu129/cu130). uv reports exactly that:

• Because all versions of torch have no wheels with a matching Python ABI tag (e.g., cp312)
• hint: torch was found on https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu134 ... we only found wheels for torch (v2.0.1) with the following Python ABI tags: cp38, cp39, cp310, cp311

Two things combine: (1) the derived URL is wrong for CUDA 13.x, and (2) the if /usr/bin/python3.12 -c "import torch; ... >= (2,7)" guard silently swallowed its failure (2>/dev/null), so the fallback branch was taken for the first time on this branch — i.e. the DOCA 3.5 step (dpkg -i doca-host.deb + apt-get upgrade -y, Dockerfile:129-139) left the base image's torch no longer importable/adequate, exposing the latent bad index. Build #626 on the same branch fails identically, and the log shows continuous progress up to the error (no hang, no timeout involved).

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — Efraim Eygin, "build: bump DOCA to 3.5" (trigger). The bad index expression dates from [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — NirWolfer, "build: bump CUDA and CI base images…" (#2205), which moved the base to cuda13.4.

File: contrib/Dockerfile:333-338 (URL construction at line 336; base tag at line 17; DOCA install at lines 129-139)

Suggested fix:

1. Stop deriving the channel from the full CUDA minor version. Either hardcode the supported channel or map it, e.g.:

   ARG TORCH_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu130"
   ...
   export UV_INDEX="${TORCH_INDEX}" && uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio

   (for CUDA 13.x use cu130; add a small case statement if multiple CUDA majors must be supported).
2. Make the probe non-silent so a base image without importable torch is diagnosed rather than falling through: drop 2>/dev/null or log the interpreter's error before taking the fallback branch.
3. Optionally add --index-strategy unsafe-best-match plus an explicit torch>=2.7 constraint so a wrong/empty channel fails with a clear message instead of resolving to torch 2.0.1.
4. Separately worth checking as part of this PR: why the DOCA 3.5 apt-get upgrade -y breaks the base image's preinstalled torch — the fallback should ideally never be needed on cuda-dl-base.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5, branch doca-3.5-bump); prior base-image bump #2205. No existing issue tracks the cu134 index.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu · commit 37788719

TL;DR: test_prep_mem_view fails on the DL GPU runner because, after this PR bumps the host stack to DOCA 3.5, UCX's GPU device API rejects NIXL's memory handle (ucp_device.c:249 invalid memh for md_index=7/6), so ucp_device_local_mem_list_create returns Invalid parameter and prepMemView returns NIXL_ERR_BACKEND; the memh produced by nixlUcxContext::memReg must be registered on the md the new device (gdaki/mlx5 GDA) lane picks, or the DOCA bump has to wait for a UCX fix.

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Summary: Stage "Run DL Python tests" (node gb200-nvl4-ts2-89, slurm jobid 2168947) failed: pytest test/python/test_nixl_api.py::test_prep_mem_view — 1 failed, 25 passed, 2 skipped; srun ... task 0: Exited with exit code 1.

Root cause: Both spawned ranks fail on the local overload of prep_mem_view (test line 293). UCX reports, per rank:

ucp_device.c:249  UCX ERROR invalid memh for md_index=7   (rank1: md_index=6)
ucp_device.c:341  failed to pack local mem list element for element=0
ucp_device.c:466  failed to create local mem list handle: Invalid parameter
ucx_backend.cpp:796 Failed to prepare local memory view: Failed to create device memory list(local): Invalid parameter
→ nixl_cu13._bindings.nixlBackendError: NIXL_ERR_BACKEND

NIXL passes the ucp_mem_h from nixlUcxContext::memReg() straight into ucp_device_local_mem_list_create() (mem_list.cpp:117-121, 189). memReg() calls ucp_mem_map() with only ADDRESS/LENGTH/FLAGS (no memory-type or device-accessibility hint), so the resulting memh's md_map does not include the md that the UCX device lane requires — UCX therefore refuses the element. Nothing in the NIXL device-API code changed in this build; the only change is commit 3778871 which bumps the container to DOCA_v3.5.0 (contrib/Dockerfile:131) plus apt-get upgrade of rdma-core/mlx5 and doca-sdk-gpunetio, against which UCX v1.23.x is rebuilt (build log shows uct/ib/mlx5/gdaki + libuct_ib_mlx5_gda.so and ucx 1.23.0, UCX GPU Device API: YES). That changed the set/order of memory domains available to the device lane, exposing the missing registration. The preceding build #2256 on the same job passed its DL Python stage, so this is a regression introduced by the DOCA bump, not a flake or hang (test finished in 25 s).

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — "build: bump DOCA to 3.5" (Efraim Eygin); the UCX device-API path it breaks was added under PR #2194 / mem_list.cpp.

File: src/plugins/ucx/ucx_utils.cpp:651-662 (memReg, ucp_mem_map params) → surfaces at src/plugins/ucx/mem_list.cpp:189 and src/plugins/ucx/ucx_backend.cpp:796; trigger is contrib/Dockerfile:131 (DOCA 3.5.0 host package).

Suggested fix:

1. Make the registration device-API-compatible: in nixlUcxContext::memReg() add UCP_MEM_MAP_PARAM_FIELD_MEMORY_TYPE (UCS_MEMORY_TYPE_CUDA for VRAM_SEG) and request registration on all device-capable MDs, then assert via ucp_mem_query() that the memh's md_map covers the device lane before handing it to ucp_device_local_mem_list_create. If UCX v1.23.x cannot guarantee this, have nixlUcxEngine::prepMemView detect the uncovered-md case and return a distinct error instead of a generic NIXL_ERR_BACKEND.
2. To unblock PR build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250 in the meantime: either pin the runner's UCX_TLS to exclude the new mlx5 GDA/gdaki device transport for the DL job, or gate HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API/test_prep_mem_view on a runtime capability probe so the DOCA bump doesn't hard-fail on a UCX-side limitation.
3. Open a UCX/DOCA ticket quoting the ucp_device.c:249 invalid memh for md_index=<n> signature with UCX v1.23.x + DOCA 3.5.0 on GB200/aarch64.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5), PR #2194 (bugfix: test: make the device API tests actually run), PR #2163 (build: bump UCX version to v1.23.x).

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit 37788719

TL;DR: All four failing Build stages died in meson setup because the taskflow [wrap-git] subproject could not be cloned from github.com (fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com' → HTTP 401/credential prompt with no tty); this is a dependency-fetch failure unrelated to the DOCA 3.5 change, and the fix is to fetch taskflow via a hashed tarball wrap (or pre-install/pre-cache it in the CI images) instead of a live git clone.

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Summary: nixl-ci-non-gpu #3035 — 4 of 6 parallel Build stages (x86_64 and aarch64, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 containers) failed at meson setup nixl_build with meson.build:233:16: ERROR: Git command failed: [... clone --depth 1 --branch v3.10.0 https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git taskflow].

Root cause: subprojects/taskflow.wrap is a [wrap-git] wrap, so dependency('taskflow', fallback: ['taskflow', 'taskflow_dep']) performs a live anonymous git clone of github.com during configure. In the failing stages that clone was rejected almost instantly (0.3–0.5 s) with fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address / fatal: expected flush after ref listing — i.e. the server answered with an auth challenge and git had no tty to prompt on. Plain HTTPS tarball wraps in the very same containers worked fine (Downloading liburing source from https://github.com/axboe/liburing/... succeeded, and tomlplusplus downloaded later in the successful stage), so this is not loss of network but a failure/throttling of unauthenticated git-protocol access.

Timing confirms it is transient and environment-wide rather than image- or PR-specific: the two Build stages that ran at 17:56–17:57 cloned taskflow (and prometheus-cpp with submodules) successfully in ~27 s, while every clone attempted from 18:03 onward (stages 572, 606, 640, 704) failed immediately, across both architectures and both Ubuntu bases. Nothing in the DOCA-3.5 commit (3778871) touches meson dependency resolution, and the pre-installed containers do not provide taskflow via pkg-config (Run-time dependency taskflow found: NO), so every build is forced onto the network path.

Implicated commit: 76275cf — "Use tagged Taskflow git wrap for NIXL builds (#2121)", bzsuni (introduced/kept the [wrap-git] fetch that makes configure depend on live git access); the PR under test ([REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]) is not the cause.

File: subprojects/taskflow.wrap:1-4 (consumed at meson.build:233)

Suggested fix:

1. Convert taskflow to a hashed tarball wrap, mirroring subprojects/liburing.wrap — this is the pattern that kept working throughout this build:

   [wrap-file]
   directory = taskflow-3.10.0
   source_url = https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/archive/refs/tags/v3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_filename = taskflow-3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_hash = <sha256 of the tag tarball>
   source_fallback_url = <internal mirror or wrapdb release>
   patch_directory = taskflow
   [provide]
   taskflow = taskflow_dep
   

2. Belt and braces: pre-populate subprojects/packagecache/ in the CI base images (or install header-only taskflow into /opt/nixl with a taskflow.pc) so meson setup resolves it offline and never touches github.com. Six parallel containers all cloning the same repos at configure time is exactly what triggers this.
3. Re-run #3035 to confirm the DOCA-3.5 branch is otherwise green — the same commit's other two Build stages plus all Test CPP/Python/Nixlbench/Rust stages passed.

Related: #2121 (taskflow git wrap), #1577 (liburing moved to tarball wrap — the pattern to follow), #2250 (PR under test, unaffected by the root cause)

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-wheel · commit 37788719

TL;DR: All three "Build Wheel" variants failed compiling src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu with nvcc — the DOCA bump to 3.5 in this PR changed the GPUNetIO device-verbs API signatures, and the kernel call sites were not updated. Fix the three call sites (doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at now takes a qp, doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait takes the ticket by value).

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Summary: nixl-ci-build-wheel #1744 failed in the parallel "Build Wheel" stages (IDs 518, 549, 580 — x86_64 and aarch64) at Dockerfile STEP 15/24, ninja build, with 3 nvcc compile errors in the GPUNETIO plugin.

Root cause: Code/header API mismatch introduced by this PR's DOCA bump. The wheel base images now ship DOCA 3.5.0098 (log: Run-time dependency doca-gpunetio found: YES 3.5.0098, headers under /opt/mellanox/doca/include), whose device-verbs signatures differ from DOCA 3.2 that the kernel was written against:

• ../src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu(149): error: no instance of function template "doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at" matches the argument list / argument types are: (doca_gpu_dev_verbs_cq *, uint64_t) — DOCA 3.5's doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_cq.cuh:627 now declares the first parameter as struct doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp *, but the code passes doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp_get_cq_sq(qp).
• gpunetio_kernels.cu(285) and (377): error: no instance of overloaded function "doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait" matches the argument list / argument types are: (doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp *, doca_gpu_dev_verbs_ticket_t *) — DOCA 3.5 (doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_qp.cuh:1646,1661) only provides wait(qp) and wait(qp, doca_gpu_dev_verbs_ticket_t), i.e. the ticket is passed by value, not by pointer.

Compilation then aborts (3 errors detected, ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed, podman exit status 1). This is a deterministic compile failure reproduced identically on both architectures — not flake, not a timeout, not infra.

Implicated commit: 37788719 ("build: bump DOCA to 3.5", Efraim Eygin) — the head commit of this build ([REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]); the last functional update to the kernel was 4d889bc2 "Upgrade DOCA dependency to 3.2 (#1053)" (ovidiusm), which is what the current call sites match.

File: src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:149, :285-286, :377

Suggested fix: Update the three call sites to the DOCA 3.5 device-verbs API in the same PR as the DOCA bump:

1. Line 149 — pass the QP, not the SQ CQ:
   if (doca_gpu_dev_verbs_poll_cq_at(qp, wqe_idx) != 0)
   (drop the doca_gpu_dev_verbs_qp_get_cq_sq(qp) wrapper; verify against doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_cq.cuh:627 whether the 3.5 overload expects the WQE index in the same units).
2. Lines 285-286 and 377 — pass the ticket by value:
   doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait(completion_list[index].xferReqRingGpu->qp_notif, out_ticket); and
   doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait(notif_send_gpu->qp_gpu, out_ticket);
   (&out_ticket is still correct for the preceding doca_gpu_dev_verbs_send out-parameter — only the wait argument changes.)

Also consider gating the GPUNETIO kernel on the detected DOCA version in meson.build (the doca-gpunetio dependency version is already known at configure time) so a future DOCA bump fails at configure with a clear message rather than deep inside nvcc. Note the same error will hit the non-wheel DOCA 3.5 build paths, so grep for other doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait/poll_cq_at uses before merging.

Related: PR #2250 (this change, branch doca-3.5-bump); prior API-bump precedent PR #1053 (DOCA 3.2) and #733 (DOCA 3.1 Verbs rework) — both updated this kernel alongside the dependency bump.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Blossom-CI · commit 641702be

TL;DR: The Blossom-CI Authorization job did not fail on any nixl code — the blossom-ci AUTH gate refused to auto-trigger because head commit 641702b is unsigned, and it exits 255 when it declines. An authorized maintainer just needs to comment /build on PR #2250 (or the PR author needs to push GPG/SSH-signed commits).

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Summary: Authorization job of workflow Blossom-CI (run 34880755433) exited with code 255 during the blossom-ci AUTH step for PR #2250; no build, scan, or test ever ran.

Root cause: The workflow triggers Authorization on pull_request_target (.github/workflows/blossom-ci.yml:33), which invokes the blossom-ci binary with OPERATION: AUTH. The log shows the gate's decision path explicitly:

• Workflow file validated against template: blossom-ci-v3.yaml — template validation passed
• ListCommits for PR auto-trigger - GitHub API rate limits: ... Remaining=14999 — no rate limiting
• Commit signature not verified (reason=unsigned); declining auto-trigger
• PR State: open
• Auto-trigger declined: use manual comment trigger
• ##[error]Process completed with exit code 255.

So the auto-trigger policy requires a verified commit signature on the PR head; commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] on branch doca-3.5-bump is unsigned, so the gate declined and signalled that by returning a non-zero exit status. The step has no continue-on-error and the shell is bash -e, so a declined authorization surfaces as a red build rather than a skipped one. This is a policy/UX artifact of the auto-trigger support added in [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String], not a defect in the DOCA 3.5 bump itself. The Untrusted reference action organization and Action mismatch lines are informational output from template validation (validation succeeded on the next line) and are not the failure.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — NirWolfer, "CI: Update Blossom CI to support automatic trigger (#2219)" (introduced the pull_request_target auto-trigger path that can decline and exit non-zero). The PR head commit that tripped the gate is [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] on doca-3.5-bump.

File: .github/workflows/blossom-ci.yml:33-40 (the if: condition admitting pull_request_target, and the OPERATION: AUTH step)

Suggested fix: Nothing to fix in the PR's code — re-run CI via the supported path: have an authorized maintainer comment /build on PR #2250. To stop this from showing up as a recurring false failure:

1. Preferred: have the gate exit 0 (or mark the job neutral/skipped) when it merely declines an auto-trigger, reserving non-zero for genuine authorization denials. Since blossom-ci is an external binary, the workflow-side equivalent is to add continue-on-error: true to the AUTH step, or narrow the if: so pull_request_target events only reach Authorization when auto-trigger can actually succeed.
2. Alternatively, if signed commits are the intended gate, document that requirement and ask contributors to enable commit signing (git config commit.gpgsign true) so doca-3.5-bump-style branches auto-trigger; note that unsigned-commit PRs will otherwise always need the manual /build comment.

Related: PR #2250 (this PR); PR #2219 (auto-trigger support); prior churn in this same area — PR #771 / revert #775 ("blossom-ci auto trigger without comment") and PR #748 ("avoid /build comment to trigger blossom-ci") show the auto-trigger vs. comment-trigger interaction has regressed before.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Copyright Checks · commit 641702be

TL;DR: The Copyright Checks job failed because src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu was modified in 2026 by this PR but its SPDX copyright header still reads 2025; update the header to 2025-2026.

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Summary: The copyright-checks GHA job failed at /workspace/.github/workflows/copyright-check.sh with ❌ SPDX header check failed: - src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu (copyright year 2025 < last modified 2026).

Root cause: Not an infrastructure or flake issue — a genuine lint violation. copyright-check.sh compares each tracked file's SPDX copyright end-year against the year of its last git commit (git log -1 --pretty="%cs", line 61) and fails when the header year is older (line 73). Commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] ("build: bump DOCA to 3.5", 2026-09-14) modified gpunetio_kernels.cu, making its last-modified year 2026, while line 2 of the file still declares Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. Since 2025 < 2026, the check correctly reports a stale header. Note the script derives last-modified from commit dates, so any file touched by this PR that still carries a 2025-only header will trip the same rule.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — Efraim Eygin, "build: bump DOCA to 3.5"

File: src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:2 (check logic: .github/workflows/copyright-check.sh:61-76)

Suggested fix: Update the copyright year range in the header of the modified file:

 * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.

The script's regex accepts YYYY-YYYY ranges (line 39) and takes the end year for comparison (line 70), so 2025-2026 satisfies the check while preserving original attribution. Before pushing, sweep the rest of the PR's diff for the same problem — e.g. git diff --name-only origin/main... | xargs grep -l 'Copyright (c) 2025 ' — since every file this DOCA bump touched now has a 2026 commit date and will fail on the next run. Running .github/workflows/copyright-check.sh locally reproduces the check exactly.

Related: PR #2250 (doca-3.5-bump) is the PR under test; no pre-existing issue tracks this specific header staleness.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Copyright Checks · commit 858e7f79

TL;DR: The Copyright Checks job failed because src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu was modified in 2026 by this PR's commit but its SPDX copyright header still reads 2025; update the header year to 2025-2026.

Full analysis

Summary: The copyright-checks GHA job failed with ❌ SPDX header check failed: src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu (copyright year 2025 < last modified 2026), exiting 1.

Root cause: .github/workflows/copyright-check.sh compares the SPDX header's end year against the file's last git commit year (git log -1 --pretty="%cs", line 61) and fails when the header year is older (lines 73-76). Commit 858e7f79 ("build: bump DOCA to 3.5", 2026-09-14) modified gpunetio_kernels.cu, making its last-modified year 2026, while line 2 of the file still declares Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. This is a genuine lint violation in the PR, not flaky infrastructure — nothing else in the job failed (checkout and container setup completed normally in ~15s).

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — Efraim Eygin, "build: bump DOCA to 3.5"

File: src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:2 (checker logic: .github/workflows/copyright-check.sh:61-76)

Suggested fix: Update the copyright year range on line 2 of src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:

 * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.

The script accepts YYYY-YYYY ranges (regex at line 39, end-year extraction at line 70), so 2025-2026 satisfies the check while preserving the original year. Before pushing, also run .github/workflows/copyright-check.sh locally to catch any other files in this PR that were touched in 2026 — the script reports all failures at once, and gpunetio_kernels.cu was the only one flagged here, but the DOCA bump may touch more files as the branch evolves.

Related: PR #2250 (#2250) — the PR under test; the fix belongs on the doca-3.5-bump branch itself.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Blossom-CI · commit 6216b292

TL;DR: The Blossom-CI "Vulnerability scan" job failed because docker login to quay.io returned HTTP 504 Gateway Timeout — a transient registry/infrastructure error unrelated to the PR's code. Re-run the job (/build) once quay.io is healthy.

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Summary: The Vulnerability scan job (NVIDIA/blossom-action step) exited with code 255 after failing to authenticate to quay.io.

Root cause: Not a code defect. In the GHA log for run 34881784971, the blossom-action binary ran a docker login against quay.io and the registry returned a gateway error:

2026-09-14T18:36:45.4887468Z Error response from daemon: login attempt to https://quay.io/v2/ failed with status: 504 Gateway Timeout
2026-09-14T18:36:45.4888817Z exit status 1
2026-09-14T18:36:47.0170875Z ##[error]Process completed with exit code 255.

A 504 is generated by quay.io's edge, not by the client credentials or by anything in the checkout — the Authorization job before it passed cleanly ("All 1 commit(s) on PR #2250 passed GPG + NVIDIA SSO checks"), the repo checked out fine at merge commit 7719fe1, and the whole step lasted only 23 s with continuous output (no hang, no timeout). The scanner image could not be pulled, so the action aborted before it ever evaluated the doca-3.5-bump changes.

Implicated commit: none — the failure is independent of commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (e-eygin). The failing code lives in the external action NVIDIA/blossom-action@main (SHA [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]), not in this repository.

File: .github/workflows/blossom-ci.yml (Vulnerability scan job) — no change required; the fault is inside the pinned external action's registry login.

Suggested fix:

1. Immediate: re-trigger the check by commenting /build on PR build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250; a repeat 504 means quay.io is still degraded (check status.redhat.com / quay.io status) rather than anything to fix in nixl.
2. Follow-up with the Blossom-CI owners: the login has no retry, so a single transient 5xx from quay.io hard-fails every PR. Ask them to wrap the docker login/image pull in a retry-with-backoff loop and to treat 5xx registry responses as retryable.
3. Housekeeping, not the cause: the same step logs WARNING! Using --password via the CLI is insecure. Use --password-stdin. — the registry credential is being passed as a CLI argument inside blossom-action, which risks exposure in process listings. Worth raising with the action owners; if that credential has ever appeared unmasked in a log, rotate it.

Related: none found — a search of this repo's issues/PRs for the quay.io 504 signature returned no relevant matches.

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🟠 Major · Check notification CQE status before reporting success. · src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu:277-294

277-294: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check notification CQE status before reporting success. doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait is void and hides the result of its CQ poll. A failed CQE from either notification send can therefore pass through unchecked. In the transfer path, completed = 1 makes checkXfer return NIXL_SUCCESS and releases in_use. In the standalone path, clearing notif_send_gpu->qp_gpu acknowledges genNotif even though the send may have failed. Use the existing nixl_gpunetio_dev_poll_one_cq_at status-aware path for both notification tickets. Preserve the failure handling and the standalone cleanup handshake, but publish success only when the notification CQE status is zero.

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In `@src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu` around lines 277 - 294, The
notification completion flow must validate CQE status before publishing success.
Replace the status-blind doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait calls in the transfer and
standalone notification paths with the existing nixl_gpunetio_dev_poll_one_cq_at
status-aware polling for each notification ticket; preserve the current failure
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completed or acknowledge genNotif only when the polled status is zero.

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In `@src/plugins/gpunetio/gpunetio_kernels.cu`:
- Around line 277-294: The notification completion flow must validate CQE status
before publishing success. Replace the status-blind doca_gpu_dev_verbs_wait
calls in the transfer and standalone notification paths with the existing
nixl_gpunetio_dev_poll_one_cq_at status-aware polling for each notification
ticket; preserve the current failure handling and standalone
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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit 2a398f69

TL;DR: The EP CI image build died in the "vLLM elastic test" Docker layer because its unauthenticated call to api.github.com/repos/vllm-project/vllm/releases/latest (used to resolve VLLM_REF) got HTTP Error 403: rate limit exceeded; pin VLLM_REF to an explicit tag and/or authenticate the API call with a token instead of resolving "latest" at build time.

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Summary: Stage "Build Docker" (node 55) of nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep #1180 failed at Dockerfile STEP 35/38 — the BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST layer — with exit status 1.

Root cause: That RUN step resolves the vLLM version to clone when VLLM_REF is empty by calling the GitHub REST API from inside the image build:

VLLM_REF="$(python3 -c 'import json, urllib.request; r = urllib.request.Request(
  "https://api.github.com/repos/vllm-project/vllm/releases/latest", ...)')"

The request is unauthenticated, so it is subject to GitHub's 60-requests/hour/IP anonymous limit. The log shows it terminating in urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: rate limit exceeded, then subprocess exited with status 1 and Error: building at STEP "RUN if [ "${BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST}" = "true" ] ...". Because the $(...) substitution runs before &&, the whole layer aborts before the clone. This is an external-service failure, not a code defect in nixl: everything before it (Mooncake, azure-sdk-for-cpp, azure-cli, gtest-parallel) built and installed cleanly, with no gaps in the log timestamps — the build progressed continuously to 12:19:15 and failed immediately.

The head commit 2a398f69 ("build: pin the PyTorch CUDA 13 wheel channel", Efraim Eygin) edited this same vLLM/torch install step (VLLM_PRECOMPILED_WHEEL_VARIANT=cu130, --torch-backend=cu130), which invalidated the layer cache and forced the fragile API lookup to actually execute on this branch. It exposed the latent problem rather than introducing it; the lookup itself came from c984ce65 ("CI: add vLLM + NIXL EP test to the EP CI job", lishapira, PR #2154).

Secondary noise worth ignoring: NO_PUBKEY [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] GPG warnings for the internal Ubuntu mirror and libdoca_gpunetio_host.so.2 is not a symbolic link from ldconfig — both non-fatal and present in passing builds.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (Efraim Eygin) triggered the rebuild of the layer; the fragile lookup was added in c984ce65 (lishapira, PR #2154)

File: the EP CI helper Dockerfile under .ci/dockerfiles/ (image ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep), at the RUN if [ "${BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST}" = "true" ] step — STEP 35/38 in the build log

Suggested fix:

1. Stop resolving "latest" at build time — set a concrete default ARG VLLM_REF=vX.Y.Z in the Dockerfile so no network lookup is needed. This also makes the image reproducible, which the current floating ref does not.
2. If dynamic resolution must stay, pass a GitHub token into the build (as a build secret, not an ARG) and send it in the Authorization header, raising the limit to 5000/hour — the same approach already taken for HuggingFace in PR ci: authenticate HuggingFace model prefetch to avoid rate limits #1948.
3. Add a fallback so a rate-limited/unavailable API degrades to a known-good pinned tag instead of failing the whole image:

   VLLM_REF="$(... || true)"; : "${VLLM_REF:=$VLLM_REF_FALLBACK}"
   

   and retry with backoff on 403/5xx.
4. Re-running the build now will likely pass once the hourly quota resets, so this can be unblocked by a retry — but it will keep recurring on every cache miss until pinned.

Related: PR #2154 (added the vLLM EP test step), PR #1948 (ci: authenticate HuggingFace model prefetch to avoid rate limits — same class of problem and the precedent fix), PR #2250 / commit 2a398f69 (the change that invalidated the layer cache)

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — AWS NIXL Validation · commit 9b8928bc

TL;DR: ./bin/nixl_example LIBFABRIC hung for ~36 minutes with zero output during the "EFA C++ Tests" stage and was killed by the workflow's outer timeout; the hang is in the LIBFABRIC/EFA transfer-completion + notification wait (nothing to do with PR #2250's DOCA bump), and the test needs a timeout wrapper plus a bounded/instrumented wait in the libfabric notification-completion gate.

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Summary: GHA run 34997843998, step "EFA C++ Tests": build and install succeeded, all earlier tests passed, then ./bin/nixl_example LIBFABRIC stopped producing output at 17:23:04 and the job was torn down at 17:59:11 → "Job reached terminal status FAILED", exit 1.

Root cause: A hang, not a slow test. The largest inter-line gap in the log is 17:23:04.370 → 17:59:11.891 (~36 min, essentially the whole remaining budget), and the very next lines are etcd receiving SIGTERM ("received terminated signal, shutting down…") followed by the harness's own Waiting for job completion (timeout: 65m) / Job reached terminal status FAILED. So SIGTERM/FAILED are symptoms of the wall-clock kill.

The last flushed application line is Params after init: + the parameter dump, printed by printParams() (which uses std::endl). Every later print in the example uses "\n" and is therefore block-buffered on the pipe — visible in the preceding UCX run, where Transfer request from… / Transfer was posted / Transfer verified / Test done all appear at one timestamp at process exit. So execution reached at least getBackendParams() for the LIBFABRIC backend and then hung in the untimed section that follows: register/loadRemoteMD/postXfer and, most likely, the unbounded poll loop at examples/cpp/nixl_example.cpp:213:

while (status != NIXL_SUCCESS || n_notifs == 0) { ... }   // no timeout, no logging

That loop can only exit when the target surfaces the notification, and in the libfabric plugin the notification is gated on write-completion accounting: the initiator ships expected_completions = get_submitted_requests_count() (libfabric_backend.cpp:1621-1631), and the target releases the notification only when received_completions >= expected_completions (checkPendingNotifications(), libfabric_backend.cpp:2248-2250, fed by addReceivedXferId() at 2226). If the target never observes the expected number of remote-write completions, getNotifs() returns NIXL_IN_PROG forever and the example spins silently — exactly the observed signature. Two supporting facts from this same log: the host is a c5n.18xlarge with a single EFA and no GPU (nvidia-smi: command not found, No IB devices found, 1 Amazon EFA(s) were detected), i.e. an intra-node EFA loopback path; and meson reports Header "rdma/fi_ext.h" has symbol "FI_OPT_EFA_USE_UNSOLICITED_WRITE_RECV" : NO, so the plugin's intended fi_setopt to disable EFA unsolicited write recv (libfabric_rail.cpp:569-587) is compiled out in this image — the completion-counting path runs in a configuration the code does not exercise elsewhere.

PR #2250 is "build: bump DOCA to 3.5"; the DOCA-dependent parts built and linked cleanly and the hang is in the libfabric plugin, so this is a pre-existing/main-branch hang surfacing on this PR's validation run, not a defect introduced by it.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — "Libfabric: Notify target when a batch write cannot be posted (#2107)", Rongbing Zhou, 2026-09-13 (the most recent change to the exact expected_completions / received_completions / xfer_failed accounting that gates notification release; landed two days before this run). Also touched that day: e77af99f (#2158, FI_RMA_EVENT on MR — cxi-only path, less likely).

File: src/plugins/libfabric/libfabric_backend.cpp:2248 (notification gate) and src/plugins/libfabric/libfabric_backend.cpp:1621 (initiator's expected_completions); hang manifests at examples/cpp/nixl_example.cpp:213; harness invocation at .gitlab/test_cpp.sh:84.

Suggested fix:

1. Stop a hang from consuming the whole job and capture evidence: wrap the example invocations in .gitlab/test_cpp.sh with a timeout that dumps state, e.g. timeout -s ABRT 300 ./bin/nixl_example LIBFABRIC (the script already sets ulimit -c unlimited, so this yields a core with the stuck stack instead of 36 blind minutes).
2. Make the failure observable: flush stdout in examples/cpp/nixl_example.cpp (use std::endl / std::cout.flush() for the Transfer request from…, Transfer was posted, Transfer verified prints), and bound the poll loop at line 213 with a deadline that errors out and prints the last getXferStatus/getNotifs results.
3. Real fix in the plugin: give the notification-completion gate a bounded wait with diagnostics (log received_completions/expected_completions per pending key at WARN once a deadline passes, as establishConnection() already does for the handshake at libfabric_backend.cpp:912-940), and re-verify that expected_completions from get_submitted_requests_count() equals the number of remote-write completions the target actually receives on an EFA build where FI_OPT_EFA_USE_UNSOLICITED_WRITE_RECV is unavailable — the accounting reworked in Libfabric: Notify target when a batch write cannot be posted #2107 is the first place to look.

Related: PR #2250 (#2250) — the PR under test, not the cause; #2107 (commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]) and #2158 (commit e77af99) are the recent libfabric changes in the implicated path; #1736 (commit 1cf7e24) added the handshake wait in the same connection path.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit 9b8928bc

TL;DR: The build failed on a single flaky gtest — MDManagerEtcdFixture.InvalidateLocalRemovesRemote — where checkRemoteMD still returned NIXL_SUCCESS after invalidateLocalMD, because the test's hard-coded 3 s poll deadline expired before the deletion propagated through a visibly overloaded local etcd. Nothing in the DOCA-3.5 PR is implicated; widen/parameterize the wait in test/gtest/md_manager.cpp (and give each CI stage a fresh etcd data-dir).

Full analysis

Summary: Test CPP in one of six parallel matrix variants (nixl-ci-non-gpu-base-ubuntu22, x86_64) failed: 1 FAILED TEST … MDManagerEtcdFixture.InvalidateLocalRemovesRemote, which aborted the whole pipeline (Test CPP failed with exit code=1).

Root cause: Timing-sensitive assertion, not a functional regression:

• test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:298 expects waitForRemoteMD(..., NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND) to return NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND after src.agent->invalidateLocalMD(nullptr). The log shows it returned 0 (NIXL_SUCCESS) — i.e. the remote MD was still present when the poll loop gave up.
• waitForRemoteMD (same file, line 83) defaults to a 3 s deadline with 25 ms polling. The test as a whole took 3659 ms, consistent with the loop simply exhausting its deadline rather than an error being returned.
• The etcd instance backing this stage was demonstrably slow in this run: etcd 3.3.25 logged read-only range request "key:\"/nixl/cpp_ci/10501/agent_0/metadata\"" … took too long (472.661965ms) and a put … took too long (103.450317ms), and the neighbouring etcd cases in the same suite took 40985 ms, 50988 ms and 20968 ms. Under that latency, propagation of the key deletion to the peer agent's view easily exceeds 3 s.
• Corroborating evidence that this is environmental, not code: the other five variants ran the identical 255-case suite and all passed Test CPP; the sibling non-etcd case MDManagerTcpStoreFixture.InvalidateLocalRemovesRemote passed in 935 ms in the same run; and the PR under test (build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250, DOCA 3.3→3.5 bump) touches only DOCA/CUDA build plumbing — nothing in src/core or the metadata manager.
• Secondary hygiene issue visible in the same build log: each stage starts etcd without an explicit --data-dir, and the log shows the server is already initialized as member before, starting as etcd member... / restarting member [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] … at commit index 339 with a stale peer URL (http://127.0.0.1:10502). Stages are reusing a leftover default.etcd in the workspace, which carries stale raft state and keys between stages — a plausible contributor to the slow ranges above.

Implicated commit: 2ff0105f — aschwartz12, "Metadata manager pr5 (#1930)" (the commit that introduced this fixture and the 3 s waitForRemoteMD default). Not the PR under test (9b8928bc, e-eygin, DOCA 3.5 bump).

File: test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:298 (assertion) / test/gtest/md_manager.cpp:83 (3 s default timeout)

Suggested fix:

1. Give the ETCD fixture a much larger, explicit deadline instead of the shared 3 s default — e.g. waitForRemoteMD(dst.agent.get(), src.name, {DRAM_SEG}, NIXL_ERR_NOT_FOUND, std::chrono::seconds(30)) for both MDManagerEtcdFixture cases, and/or make the default overridable from the environment so CI can be generous while local runs stay fast. The other etcd cases in this suite already legitimately take 20–50 s, so 3 s is inconsistent with the store's observed latency.
2. In the CI etcd launcher, pass a unique --data-dir per stage (e.g. under $(mktemp -d)) and delete it on exit, so a stage never restarts a stale member with another stage's port/keys.
3. Re-run build #3063 to confirm the flake — 5/6 identical variants were green, so this should not block PR build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5 — the PR under test, not the cause); PR #1930 (Metadata manager pr5 — introduced the fixture); PR #2130 (test: skip centralized metadata cleanup without a store — prior etcd-gating fix in the same area); PR #1909 (TEST/GTEST: Fail on unexpectedly skipped tests).

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Three things for the record:

• test_prep_mem_view did not recur. It failed once on the intermediate 37788719; nixl-ci-dl-gpu passed on 2a398f69 (#2274). The triage comment blames contrib/Dockerfile:131, but that lane's base (pytorch:26.08-py3) already ships DOCA_VERSION=3.5.0, so this PR changes nothing DOCA-related there.
• CodeRabbit's poll_cq_at finding is dismissed (thread resolved). Restoring qp_get_cq_sq(qp) is what fails to compile on 3.5: per doca_gpunetio_dev_verbs_cq.cuh:627, poll_cq_at takes the QP; the CQ form is poll_cq_device_at.
• Current reds aren't from this diff. Run AWS Tests fails identically on utils: add a device memory allocator with owning handles #2196 and TEST/GTEST: Run in single process. #1743 right now. nixl-ci-non-gpu is unexplained (no Jenkins access), but the meson gate cannot fail a configure — is_explicit_enable needs -Dplugins=, which no lane passes — and the cu130 mapping is a no-op for every CUDA version in the matrix.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: The x86_64/nixl-ci-non-gpu-base-cuda12.9 v1 matrix branch never got a Jenkins agent — Kubernetes refused every pod create with exceeded quota: resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl, requested: cpu=8500m, used: cpu=792100m, limited: cpu=800, and the plugin retried every 10 s for ~2.6 h until the pipeline timeout aborted the build. This is namespace CPU-quota exhaustion in the nbu-swx-nixl namespace, not a defect in commit b94df0c.

Full analysis

Summary: Build #3067 aborted on timeout because one parallel branch (nixl-ci-non-gpu-base-cuda12.9, x86_64) could not schedule its agent pod — repeated HTTP 403 Forbidden from the k8s API for quota violation.

Root cause: All five other matrix branches (Build / Test CPP / Test Python / Test Nixlbench / Test Rust) completed successfully. The sixth branch's Build Docker stage succeeded, but the subsequent agent pod nixl-ci-non-gpu-nixl-ci-non-gpu-base-cuda129-3067-kbdfb-* was rejected by the namespace ResourceQuota: the pod requests cpu=8500m while the namespace was sitting at used: cpu=792100m of limited: cpu=800 — only 7900m free, permanently 600m short of what the pod needs. The kubernetes plugin logged an identical KubernetesClientException ... reason=Forbidden + Retrying... roughly every 10 seconds continuously (23:48:02 → 23:56:12 in the visible tail, and for the full 9,330,703 ms of the Parallel stage). There is no gap in the log — it is a tight, uninterrupted retry loop, so nothing hung; the branch was simply never admitted. At 23:56:18 the enclosing timeout fired: Cancelling nested steps due to timeout → Failed in branch x86_64/nixl-ci-non-gpu-base-cuda12.9 v1 → FlowInterruptedException: Timeout has been exceeded. Quota usage hovered at 792100–799700m the whole time, i.e. the namespace was saturated by concurrently running pods (this job's own six 8.5-CPU agents account for ~51 CPU, the rest from other builds in nbu-swx-nixl).

Implicated commit: none — the tested commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (doca-3.5-bump, PR #2250) is not implicated; the failure is entirely in agent provisioning and never reached any nixl code for that variant.

File: not a source defect. The relevant knobs are the Jenkins podTemplate CPU request (cpu=8500m per agent) and the nbu-swx-nixl namespace resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl (cpu=800) — the pod spec lives in the nixl-ci-non-gpu pipeline/pod-template definition, not in the paths touched by recent .ci commits.

Suggested fix:

1. Short term: re-run the build — it is a transient capacity collision, and the other five variants already passed on this commit.
2. Stop the 2.6-hour burn: give the node/podTemplate block a short provisioning timeout (e.g. timeout(time: 15, unit: 'MINUTES') around agent acquisition, or set the kubernetes cloud's "Pod Retention"/slave-connect timeout) so an unschedulable branch fails fast with a clear "quota exceeded" message instead of retrying until the global pipeline timeout kills all branches.
3. Structural: reduce the per-agent request below the headroom the namespace realistically has (8500m per pod × 6 parallel branches = 51 CPU is a large single-job footprint), and/or throttle the matrix so fewer than six agents are requested at once (parallel with a lock/throttle, or disableConcurrentBuilds). Alternatively ask IT to raise resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl above cpu=800; usage was pinned at ~99% of quota for the entire window.

Related: none — no existing issue/PR in this repo matches the quota error signature (the only search hit, PR #1752, is unrelated).

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@ovidiusm @ColinNV please review

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/build

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-gpu · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: The build never ran any NIXL code — every Jenkins Kubernetes agent pod failed to start (first rejected by the nbu-swx-nixl namespace CPU quota, then stuck in ContainerCreating past the 1,000,000 ms pod-ready timeout ~13 times), so the Parallel stage burned its whole ~200 min budget and was aborted. This is a CI cluster/capacity problem, not a defect in commit b94df0c; free up the namespace quota and fix the stuck agent pods, then re-run.

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-gpu #3604 aborted with FlowInterruptedException: Timeout has been exceeded in the Parallel stage (12,000,256 ms) because no nixl-ci-gpu-buildhelper-3604-* agent pod ever became ready.

Root cause: Two stacked infrastructure failures visible in the console log, both before any build step executed:

1. Namespace CPU quota exhausted. The first four pod creations were rejected outright: pods "nixl-ci-gpu-buildhelper-3604-1hf6g-*" is forbidden: exceeded quota: resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl, requested: cpu=8500m, used: cpu=792200m, limited: cpu=800. 792.2 of 800 cores in the nbu-swx-nixl namespace were already consumed by other/leaked pods, leaving no room for the 8500m request (buildhelper requests 8000m + jnlp).
2. Pods that did get admitted never started. Ten subsequent pods (nm9l3, fwkx8, dv0bk, hsnln, kbhsp, 7p5x9, 2sc2m, g9nlv, kq2m5, 1tgfm, 4vns1, x0sl1, 8hx7k, hjdwm) sat in Pod [Pending][ContainersNotReady] … Container [buildhelper] waiting [ContainerCreating] — both containers, including the generic jenkins/inbound-agent:latest jnlp sidecar — and each hit KubernetesClientTimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [1000000] milliseconds. Because both containers hang in ContainerCreating (not ImagePullBackOff), this points at node-level volume attach / container-runtime trouble on the scheduled nodes rather than the build_helper:9b8928bc image itself; the shared RWX PVC nbu-swx-nixl-pvc (/mnt/pvc) is the most likely stuck mount.

The Timeout has been exceeded abort is purely the symptom: ~13 × 16.6 min of pod-ready waits with zero application output. Corroborating that nothing NIXL-related ran, the cleanup stage reports WARNING: No job ID files found in /mnt/pvc/nixl-ci-gpu/ — no slurm GPU job was ever submitted, so the doca-3.5-bump change was never exercised.

Implicated commit: none — no code from [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] was executed. Recent .ci history (latest: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] "bump CUDA and CI base images", NirWolfer) is unrelated to the pod-start failure.

File: n/a (Jenkins Kubernetes cloud config / nbu-swx-nixl namespace resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl); failure surfaces at KubernetesLauncher.launch for pod template nixl-ci-gpu-buildhelper-3604-1hf6g

Suggested fix:

1. Immediate: ask CI admins to kubectl get pods -n nbu-swx-nixl and delete leaked/orphaned agent pods from earlier builds that are holding ~792 cores of the 800-core quota, then re-trigger #3604.
2. Diagnose the hang: kubectl describe pod nixl-ci-gpu-buildhelper-3604-1hf6g-<suffix> -n nbu-swx-nixl on a stuck pod — check the Events for FailedMount/FailedAttachVolume on nbu-swx-nixl-pvc. If confirmed, the RWX PVC / CSI driver needs remediation (or the node holding a stale mount cordoned).
3. Make this fail fast instead of eating 200 min: the 1,000,000 ms (slaveConnectTimeout) pod-ready timeout is far too long — drop it to ~300 s so a bad agent surfaces as a clear provisioning error rather than a pipeline-wide Timeout has been exceeded.
4. Optional hygiene: add podRetention: never / an idle-timeout reaper on the buildhelper pod template, and consider lowering the buildhelper CPU request (8000m request / 16000m limit) so a near-full quota doesn't block every agent.

Related: none found (no matching issues/PRs in this repo)

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-wheel · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: The build_helper_vllm agent pod could never start because the aarch64 CI image .../ci/aarch64/build_helper_vllm:9b8928bc does not exist in Artifactory; Jenkins retried pod provisioning ~15 times (16.7 min each) until the parallel stage hit its 4 h timeout. Build/push the arm64 build_helper_vllm image for this tag (or fix the tag the pod template requests) and make the pipeline fail fast on ErrImagePull.

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-build-wheel #1772 stage "Parallel" was aborted after 14,401 s with FlowInterruptedException: Timeout has been exceeded — no build work ever ran because the aarch64 agent pod never became ready.

Root cause: Not a code or node-health failure and not genuine slowness. Every nixl-ci-build-wheel-buildhelpervllm-1772-* pod sat in Pending / ContainerCreating and was abandoned with KubernetesClientTimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [1000000] milliseconds. On the last attempt (...-l40db) kubelet finally surfaced the real reason:

Container [buildhelpervllm] waiting [ErrImagePull] rpc error: code = NotFound
 desc = failed to pull and unpack image
 "artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_vllm:9b8928bc":
 failed to resolve reference ... : not found
...
ERROR: Unable to pull container image "...aarch64/build_helper_vllm:9b8928bc".

The pod spec in the log confirms nodeSelector: kubernetes.io/arch: "arm64", imagePullPolicy: "Always", image tag 9b8928bc. That tag — derived from the CI container context on the doca-3.5-bump branch — was never published for the aarch64 repository path, so the pull is a hard 404 (NotFound, not auth or network). The ~16 min silent gaps in the log are the k8s client's pod-readiness timeout, i.e. a pod that can never start, and the 4 h wall-clock abort plus the "pipline stop on build_helper_vllm" cleanup stage are downstream symptoms. Note the x86 path was unaffected — only ci/aarch64/... is missing, so this is a missing arm64 image build, not a broken tag scheme in general.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (branch doca-3.5-bump, PR #2250 "build: bump DOCA to 3.5") — its change to the CI container context produced the new image tag 9b8928bc, for which only the x86_64 variant exists. Related prior CI-image churn: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] "build: bump CUDA and CI base images, stop restating them across CI" (#2205, NirWolfer) and 1ee696f "CI: Build containers nightly on the Pytorch release image" (#2061, Alexey Rivkin).

File: .ci/dockerfiles/ (vLLM build-helper image definition) + the nixl-ci-build-wheel pod template that pins ci/aarch64/build_helper_vllm:<tag>; failing pod template shown at nixl-ci-build-wheel-buildhelpervllm-1772-2vsqs in the build console log.

Suggested fix:

1. Re-run the CI container-image build job for PR build: bump DOCA to 3.5 #2250 with the aarch64/arm64 target so ci/aarch64/build_helper_vllm:9b8928bc is pushed to sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local, then re-trigger Nixlbench: register remote IOVs only for storage backends #1772. Verify with docker manifest inspect (or the Artifactory UI) that both ci/x86_64/... and ci/aarch64/... exist for the tag before the wheel job starts.
2. Make the image-build stage a hard gate/dependency of the wheel job for both architectures, so a missing arm64 image fails in minutes rather than after a 4 h timeout.
3. Reduce the wasted retries: the pod-readiness timeout of 1,000,000 ms combined with ~15 retries is what consumed the whole 4 h budget. Lower the k8s podRetention/readiness timeout and abort immediately on the first ErrImagePull/ImagePullBackOff with NotFound instead of re-provisioning — the existing "Image pull backoff detected, waiting for image to be available" logic only kicks in on the one attempt that got far enough to pull.

Related: PR #2250 (#2250) — the branch under test; #2205 and #2061 for recent CI-image tagging/build changes.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: The Parallel stage burned the full 5-hour pipeline timeout because every buildhelperdlep agent pod failed to start — the aarch64 CI image artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep:9b8928bc does not exist in Artifactory (ErrImagePull ... NotFound). Build and push the arm64 build_helper_dl_ep image for the DOCA-3.5 content tag 9b8928bc (or make the EP job depend on the image-build job) before re-running.

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep #1194 aborted after 18,000,282 ms (exactly the 5 h stage timeout) with FlowInterruptedException: Timeout has been exceeded; no test or build step ever ran because the Kubernetes agent pod never became ready.

Root cause: Missing container image, not a code defect and not a slow build. The pod spec echoed in the log requests:

image: "artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep:9b8928bc"
imagePullPolicy: "Always"
nodeSelector: kubernetes.io/arch: "arm64"

and kubelet reports:

Container [buildhelperdlep] waiting [ErrImagePull] rpc error: code = NotFound desc =
failed to pull and unpack image ".../ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep:9b8928bc":
failed to resolve reference ...: not found
ERROR: Unable to pull container image "...:9b8928bc". Check if image tag name is spelled correctly.

The tag 9b8928bc is a content hash of the CI docker build context. PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5, commit b94df0c) changes those inputs, so a new tag is computed — but only the x86_64 variant appears to have been published; the ci/aarch64/ repository has no 9b8928bc manifest. The dl-gpu-ep template pins kubernetes.io/arch: arm64, so it can only consume the missing aarch64 image.

The 5-hour wall-clock kill is purely a symptom, and it is amplified by a second, separate CI-config problem: the Jenkins k8s plugin slaveConnectTimeout is set to 1,000,000 ms (~16.7 min). Roughly 15 consecutive pods (...-d2s4n, -v7pcg, -ftk7s, -2h7fq, -mx3vp, -mhgww, -4jlwh, -753sk, -cgtkc, -j9f2t, -p9m8l, -fsp7k, -t9sq5, -l55s3) each sat in ContainerCreating with no message and were killed by that timeout — 15 × 16.7 min ≈ 4.2 h of pure retry churn. Only the 16th pod (-s9qlj) got far enough for kubelet to surface the real NotFound, after which the plugin's ImagePullBackOff handler correctly failed fast. So a 30-second diagnosis was hidden behind four hours of silent retries.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (branch doca-3.5-bump, PR #2250 "build: bump DOCA to 3.5") — it changed the CI image content hash to 9b8928bc without an aarch64 image being published. Prior art for the tagging/base-image scheme: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] "build: bump CUDA and CI base images, stop restating them across CI" (#2205, NirWolfer).

File: CI image definition/build for ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep under .ci/dockerfiles/ plus the nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep pod template (arm64 nodeSelector, slaveConnectTimeout: 1000000). Exact paths could not be read back — .ci/dockerfiles/*build_helper_dl_ep* and .ci/jenkins/pipelines/proj-dl-gpu-ep.yaml were not resolvable via the source tool; git log confirms .ci/dockerfiles is the right directory.

Suggested fix:

1. Primary — publish the missing image: run the aarch64 build_helper_dl_ep image build for doca-3.5-bump so that ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl_ep:9b8928bc exists, then re-trigger Plugins OBS_OBJ: contribute RDMA over S3-compatible storage plugin for Dell ObjectScale #1194. If the arm64 leg of the image-build job silently skipped or failed on this branch, fix that job first; the DOCA 3.5 bump likely needs an arm64-available DOCA package set, which is the thing to verify in the image build log.
2. Make the dependency explicit: gate nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep on successful publication of both ci/x86_64/... and ci/aarch64/... tags, or add a cheap pre-flight docker manifest inspect / Artifactory HEAD check at the top of the pipeline that fails in seconds with a clear message instead of scheduling pods that can never start.
3. Stop the 4-hour burn regardless of cause: drop slaveConnectTimeout from 1,000,000 ms to ~300,000 ms and cap agent-provisioning retries (currently ~15) at 2–3. Do not raise the 5 h stage timeout — the log shows zero forward progress, so more wall time would only produce a longer failure.

Related: PR #2250 (#2250) — the PR under test. Adjacent CI image/registry work: #2205 ([REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]), #2154 (c984ce6, added the EP CI job), #2063 "ci: raise the registry push retry budget".

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: The build never ran any tests — the buildhelperdl agent pod could never start because the aarch64 CI helper image ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl:9b8928bc does not exist in Artifactory, so the Parallel stage burned its 4-hour timeout retrying pod launches. Fix: build and push the arm64 build_helper_dl image for the doca-3.5-bump branch (the arm64 image build for commit 9b8928b did not publish), then re-run.

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Summary: nixl-ci-dl-gpu #2287 aborted after the Parallel stage hit its 4h timeout ("Timeout has been exceeded"); no test work was ever executed because the Kubernetes agent pod never became ready.

Root cause: Two stacked provisioning problems, ending in a missing container image:

1. Initial pod creations were rejected outright by the namespace quota: pods "nixl-ci-dl-gpu-buildhelperdl-2287-sxd2v-*" is forbidden: exceeded quota: resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl, requested: cpu=8500m, used: cpu=799900m, limited: cpu=800 — the nbu-swx-nixl namespace was at 799.9 of 800 CPU cores.
2. Once pods could be created, each sat in Pending/ContainerCreating until the kubernetes-plugin readiness timeout (Timed out waiting for [1000000] milliseconds, ~16.7 min) and was discarded — this repeated ~12 times, which is what consumed the 4 hours. This is a stall, not slow work: there is no application output at all in the whole build, only repeated [PodInfo] ... ContainerCreating polling.
3. The final pod finally surfaced the actual cause: Container [buildhelperdl] waiting [ErrImagePull] rpc error: code = NotFound desc = failed to pull and unpack image "artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl:9b8928bc" ... not found, then ImagePullBackOff. The pod spec pins nodeSelector: kubernetes.io/arch: arm64 and imagePullPolicy: Always, so with no such tag published the agent can never come up.

The tag 9b8928bc is a commit on this same branch — 9b8928bc "build: align the PyTorch wheel index across all three install paths" (Efraim Eygin, 2026-09-15, part of PR #2250 / doca-3.5-bump), the last commit touching contrib/. The x86_64 flow evidently produced an image while the aarch64 variant for that commit was never built/pushed, most likely because the DOCA 3.5 bump (6216b292 build: bump DOCA to 3.5) broke or skipped the arm64 helper-image build.

Implicated commit: 9b8928b — Efraim Eygin, "build: align the PyTorch wheel index across all three install paths" (image tag referenced); the underlying change is 6216b29 — Efraim Eygin, "build: bump DOCA to 3.5" (PR #2250)

File: contrib/ (DOCA 3.5 bump touched by 6216b29 / 9b8928b); consumed as image artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl:9b8928bc in the nixl-ci-dl-gpu pod template

Suggested fix:

1. Primary: check the aarch64 build_helper_dl image build for doca-3.5-bump/commit 9b8928b and fix it so the tag is actually pushed — DOCA 3.5 packages/repo must be available for arm64, and the build must run on an arm64 builder for every commit the dl-gpu job triggers on. Verify with docker manifest inspect artifactory.nvidia.com/sw-nbu-swx-nixl-docker-local/ci/aarch64/build_helper_dl:9b8928bc before re-running.
2. Make the failure fast instead of a 4h burn: have the pipeline verify the helper image tag exists (registry HEAD/manifest check) before entering the Parallel stage and fail immediately with a clear message; alternatively cap the agent-provisioning retries (currently ~12 × 1000000 ms) so ImagePullBackOff/NotFound aborts the build rather than looping.
3. Separately, flag the resourcequota-nbu-swx-nixl saturation (799900m/800 CPU) to CI infra — leaked/queued agents in that namespace made provisioning much worse and will re-bite even after the image is fixed.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5 — the branch under test); prior CI base-image change PR #2205 ([REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String]) for how helper images are tagged/built

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit b94df0cc

TL;DR: meson setup aborted in three of the six build variants because the taskflow subproject is a [wrap-git] that must git clone https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git, and in those container images anonymous git-over-HTTPS is not usable ("could not read Username for 'https://github.com'"), while HTTPS tarball fetches in the same containers work fine. Convert subprojects/taskflow.wrap (and ideally prometheus-cpp.wrap) to a wrap-file tarball with a source_hash, or pre-provision taskflow/git credentials in the affected CI images.

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Summary: Stages Build (node IDs 374, 414, 422) of nixl-ci-non-gpu #3075 failed at meson setup nixl_build with meson.build:233:16: ERROR: Git command failed: [... clone --depth 1 --branch v3.10.0 https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git ...].

Root cause: subprojects/taskflow.wrap is a [wrap-git], so meson resolves the taskflow fallback in meson.build:233 by shelling out to git clone. In the three failing containers git fails immediately with:

Cloning into 'taskflow'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
fatal: expected flush after ref listing

i.e. the git transport got an auth challenge / had no usable route and there is no credential/proxy configuration for git in those images. It is not a general network outage — in the very same failing containers meson's urllib-based tarball fetch succeeded ("Downloading liburing source from https://github.com/axboe/liburing/archive/.../liburing-2.14.tar.gz", and the liburing subproject configured fine). And in the three passing variants (stages 397/378/518 — the CUDA/DL-style images with pip cmake 3.31, nsys, torch on PATH) the identical git clone succeeded and took ~30 s, then prometheus-cpp and its submodules cloned too. So the build depends on a capability (anonymous git clone to github.com) that only some CI images have; the DOCA-3.5 image bump exposed it.

Two consequences worth noting: (1) the failure is not caused by any code change in b94df0cc; it is a build-infra/dependency-fetch fragility. (2) prometheus-cpp.wrap is also [wrap-git] (with clone-recursive = true), so those variants would have failed there next even if taskflow were fixed.

Implicated commit: 76275cf "Use tagged Taskflow git wrap for NIXL builds (#2121)", bzsuni — introduced/kept the [wrap-git] form of the taskflow dependency. (Image-side trigger: the DOCA 3.5 image bump on branch doca-3.5-bump, PR #2250.)

File: subprojects/taskflow.wrap:1-5 (consumed at meson.build:233)

Suggested fix:

1. Replace the git wrap with a tarball wrap, mirroring the pattern that already works everywhere (subprojects/liburing.wrap):

[wrap-file]
directory = taskflow-3.10.0
source_url = https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/archive/refs/tags/v3.10.0.tar.gz
source_filename = taskflow-3.10.0.tar.gz
source_hash = <sha256 of the release tarball>
patch_directory = taskflow

[provide]
taskflow = taskflow_dep

This removes the git clone requirement, gives a pinned/verified artifact, and is faster (the clone cost ~30 s even when it worked).
2. Do the same for subprojects/prometheus-cpp.wrap (tarball + submodule-free handling), otherwise the same variants will fail one dependency later.
3. In parallel, have the CI image owners confirm git HTTPS/proxy configuration (e.g. http.proxy / CA certs / insteadOf mirror) is present in the Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 x86 and aarch64 non-DL images, so [wrap-git] subprojects and git-based tooling behave consistently across all build variants.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5, the branch under test); PR #2121 (introduced the taskflow git wrap).

[svc-nixl]

🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-container-pr · commit f316d239

TL;DR: Both failing "Build image" stages died on an anonymous git clone https://github.com/... inside the container build with fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address — GitHub answered the clone with an auth challenge (transient egress/rate-limit), not a code defect; re-run the build and harden the Dockerfile's git clone steps with retries.

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Summary: nixl-ci-build-container-pr #667 failed in two of four parallel "Build image" stages (node 170 and node 194); both aborted at a git clone from github.com with exit code 128.

Root cause: Network/service-side failure fetching third-party sources from github.com during the image build, not a defect in the PR.

• Stage 170 (x86_64), contrib/Dockerfile STEP 31: git clone https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git → fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address / fatal: expected flush after ref listing → Error: building at STEP ... exit status 128.
• Stage 194 (aarch64), STEP 34: git clone --recurse-submodules ... aws-sdk-cpp → the superproject cloned fine, then the crt/aws-crt-cpp submodule failed twice with the identical message → exit status 1.

That message means git received an HTTP authentication challenge for an anonymous clone of a public repo and had no TTY to prompt on — i.e. the request was rejected/intercepted upstream (rate limit or egress proxy), not that the URL or credentials are wrong. The evidence that this is transient, not systematic:

• The same aarch64 stage successfully cloned abseil-cpp, grpc and etcd-cpp-apiv3 from github.com minutes earlier (06:42–06:58), and only failed on a later clone at 06:59.
• Two sibling "Build image" stages (nodes 222 and 233) ran the exact same steps to completion and tagged their images.
• No large timestamp gaps: activity is continuous right up to each failure, so this is not a hang or a timeout.
• The DOCA 3.5 change in this PR is confined to the DOCA package install (STEP 27, which succeeded in all stages: "DOCA SDK already installed in base image, skipping SDK install"); it does not touch DNS, CA certs or git config. A broken resolver would report "Could not resolve host", and a cert problem "SSL certificate problem" — neither appears.

Implicated commit: none — not caused by f316d23 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5, Efraim Eygin) or any repo change; infrastructure/external-service failure.

File: contrib/Dockerfile:157 (abseil clone) and contrib/Dockerfile:204 (aws-sdk-cpp clone with submodules)

Suggested fix:

1. Immediate: re-run build nixlbench: add support for GDS_MT #667. The failure is not reproducible-by-construction — two variants passed.
2. Durable hardening of contrib/Dockerfile, since ~8 unauthenticated GitHub clones run concurrently across four parallel image builds and any one of them failing kills a 20–40 minute build:
   • Wrap each clone in a retry loop and fail fast rather than hang, e.g. ENV GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 plus a helper such as for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do git clone ... && break || sleep $((i*15)); done (mirrors the existing wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 pattern already used for the DOCA deb and rustup).
   • Add --depth 1 to the abseil clone at line 157 (it is currently a full clone that is immediately followed by git fetch --depth 1 origin ${ABSL_TAG}), reducing both time and exposure.
   • Best: pull these pinned dependencies (abseil, grpc, etcd-cpp-apiv3, aws-sdk-cpp, azure-sdk, gusli) from an internal mirror/artifact cache the way APT_MIRROR already redirects apt, or supply a token via a build secret so GitHub requests are authenticated and not subject to anonymous rate limits.

Related: PR #2250 (build: bump DOCA to 3.5) — the PR under test; the failure is unrelated to its content.