Wheel: Record build info

[ovidiusm]

What?

Records build information in the wheel readme/metadata

Why?

To keep track of which NIXL and UCX versions were used to build the wheel

How?

Example:

NIXL commit: 0f2ef13e20206ea3474707eed838c9bc74f8df6b
UCX Library version: 1.23.0
UCX API headers version: 1.23.0
UCX Git branch 'v1.23.x', revision e6f37ab
UCX Configured with:
--disable-logging --disable-debug --disable-assertions --disable-params-check --enable-mt
--enable-shared --disable-static --disable-doxygen-doc --enable-experimental-api
--enable-optimizations --without-avx --enable-cma --enable-devel-headers
--with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda --with-verbs --with-dm --without-gdrcopy --with-efa --without-dc
--without-rdmacm --without-gga

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a build-information section to the README.
  • README builds now record the NIXL commit, available UCX configuration details, and detected SPCX and Infinia plugin versions.
  • Build metadata now includes plugin commit or image digest information when available.
  • Added clear notices when UCX information cannot be retrieved.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The build process now passes SPCX and Infinia version metadata to the manylinux wheel stage. The wheel stage appends NIXL, UCX, and plugin build information to README.md.

Changes

Build Metadata Reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plugin version propagation contrib/build-container.sh	The script records the fetched SPCX commit SHA and passes it as UCX_SPCX_PLUGIN_VERSION. Infinia metadata combines the image tag with an available image digest and passes it as INFINIA_PLUGIN_VERSION.
Build information documentation contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux	The wheel stage accepts plugin version arguments and appends a formatted build-information block containing the NIXL commit, UCX configuration details, and non-empty plugin versions to README.md.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant build_container as build-container.sh
  participant wheel_stage as manylinux wheel stage
  participant readme as README.md
  build_container->>wheel_stage: Pass SPCX and Infinia version arguments
  wheel_stage->>readme: Append NIXL, UCX, and plugin build information

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Suggested reviewers: aranadive

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0f2ef

Wheels can report incomplete UCX build information if the installed tool fails. Handle the failure explicitly before merging so build provenance remains accurate.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: recording build information in the wheel.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections: What, Why, and How. It explains the purpose and provides a representative example of the recorded build information.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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In `@contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux`:
- Around line 449-450: Update the UCX metadata generation command around
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sed -n '420,475p' contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux
rg -n 'SHELL|pipefail|ucx_info|Build information' contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux

Repository: ai-dynamo/nixl

Length of output: 2714

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printf '%s\n' '--- shell and pipeline declarations ---'
rg -n '^(SHELL|RUN)|pipefail|ucx_info' contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux

Repository: ai-dynamo/nixl

Length of output: 5906

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Handle ucx_info failures before formatting.

This Dockerfile does not enable pipefail. Therefore, ucx_info -v | sed reports sed's status, and the following build RUN can proceed with incomplete UCX metadata.

-                ucx_info -v | sed -e 's/^# //' -e '/^Library path:/d' \
+                if ucx_info_output="$(ucx_info -v)"; then
+                    printf '%s\n' "$ucx_info_output" | sed -e 's/^# //' -e '/^Library path:/d' \
                                   -e 's/^/UCX /' \
                                   -e 's/^\(UCX Configured with:\) */\1\n/'; \
+                else
+                    echo "UCX: ucx_info unavailable"; \
+                fi

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[low] 1-583: Ensure that HEALTHCHECK instructions have been added to container images

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[low] 1-583: Ensure that a user for the container has been created

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In `@contrib/Dockerfile.manylinux` around lines 449 - 450, Update the UCX metadata
generation command around ucx_info so failures from ucx_info -v are detected
before sed formats its output, without relying on pipefail being enabled. Ensure
the build stops or handles the failure instead of continuing with incomplete UCX
metadata.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu-ep · commit 0f2ef13e

TL;DR: The Build Docker stage failed at Dockerfile step 35/38 because the unauthenticated call to https://api.github.com/repos/vllm-project/vllm/releases/latest (used to auto-resolve VLLM_REF) returned HTTP Error 403: rate limit exceeded; pin VLLM_REF to an explicit tag or authenticate/retry the lookup.

Full analysis

Summary: Build #1216 failed in the parallel Build Docker stage while building the vLLM elastic-test layer of the CI image.

Root cause: The BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST RUN step resolves the vLLM version at image-build time with an anonymous GitHub REST API request:

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

GitHub's unauthenticated API limit is 60 requests/hour per source IP, and the shared CI egress IP was over it, so the request returned 403:

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: rate limit exceeded
subprocess exited with status 1
Error: building at STEP "RUN if [ "${BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST}" = "true" ]; then ... VLLM_REF=..."

With VLLM_REF unset the if [ -z "${VLLM_REF}" ] branch is always taken, so every build of this image depends on an unauthenticated, rate-limited third-party API call — a hard external dependency with no fallback and no retry. This is not a code defect in NIXL and not an infra/node problem; the rest of the build (Mooncake, azure-sdk-for-cpp, gtest-parallel) completed normally and the failure came ~3 s after the step started.

Implicated commit: c984ce6 — lishapira, "CI: add vLLM + NIXL EP test to the EP CI job (#2154)" (introduced the BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST layer that performs the release lookup)

File: CI Dockerfile under .ci/dockerfiles/ — the RUN if [ "${BUILD_VLLM_ELASTIC_TEST}" = "true" ] step (step 35/38), at the VLLM_REF="$(python3 -c ... releases/latest ...)" line

Suggested fix: Remove the runtime dependency on the anonymous GitHub API:

1. Preferred — pin the version: set a concrete default ARG VLLM_REF=vX.Y.Z in the Dockerfile (bumped deliberately, as was done for Upgrade vLLM and SGLang versions used in CI #2073) and drop the auto-resolve branch. This also makes the image reproducible, which the current "latest release" behaviour is not.
2. If auto-resolve must stay, make it resilient: pass a token via BuildKit secret and send an Authorization header (raises the limit to 5000/hr — never bake the token into a layer), add a retry/backoff loop, and fall back to a hard-coded known-good tag on any non-200 response instead of failing the build. A token-free alternative is git ls-remote --tags --sort=-v:refname https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git, which does not consume the REST API quota.
3. Re-running the build after the rate-limit window resets (~1 hour) will make it pass, so this is a retryable failure for unblocking PR Wheel: Record build info #2264 in the meantime.

Related: #2154 (added the vLLM EP test layer), #2123 (earlier version of the same change), #2073 (previous manual vLLM/SGLang version bump — precedent for pinning)

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit 0f2ef13e

TL;DR: The Docker image builds died at git clone https://github.com/... — GitHub rejected the anonymous fetch, git fell back to prompting for credentials in a non-interactive container and exited 128. Not a code defect: add retry + GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 around the ~12 unauthenticated clones in .gitlab/build.sh (or mirror the deps), and re-run.

Full analysis

Summary: 4 of the 6 parallel "Build Docker" stages in nixl-ci-non-gpu #3097 failed with Error: building at STEP "RUN /.gitlab/build.sh ${NIXL_INSTALL_DIR}": exit status 128 while cloning third-party dependencies from github.com.

Root cause: In stage 117 (ubuntu22/aarch64 image) the last successful step is the libfabric build, then:

+ git clone https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git
Cloning into 'abseil-cpp'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
fatal: expected flush after ref listing
subprocess exited with status 128

Stage 111 fails identically one dependency later, right after gRPC installs cleanly:

+ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/etcd-cpp-apiv3/etcd-cpp-apiv3.git
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

expected flush after ref listing followed by a credential prompt is GitHub refusing/aborting the unauthenticated smart-HTTP ref advertisement (throttling of anonymous clones from the shared CI egress IP); git then tries to ask for a username, finds no tty, and aborts with 128. Evidence it is transient/environmental rather than a broken URL: (a) the same script's wget to github.com/release-assets.githubusercontent.com for libfabric succeeded seconds earlier in the same container, (b) two other image variants completed the whole dependency stack, and (c) the two failures occur at different clone steps. Every wget in the script carries --tries=3 --waitretry=5, but none of the ~12 git clone invocations have any retry or prompt suppression, so a single throttled ref advertisement kills the whole image build. Six variants building in parallel, each doing a dozen anonymous clones, makes this a recurring flake.

Implicated commit: none — the build commit 0f2ef13 ("record-build-info", PR #2264) is unrelated; the failure is in the dependency-fetch path of .gitlab/build.sh (last touched c984ce6, lishapira).

File: .gitlab/build.sh:253 (abseil clone, stage 117) and .gitlab/build.sh:304 (etcd-cpp-apiv3 clone, stage 111); same pattern at lines 276, 324, 336, 348, 368, 377, 395, 405.

Suggested fix:

1. Immediate: re-run build #3097 — this is a transient GitHub-side rejection.
2. Durable: add a retry helper to .ci/scripts/common.sh and use it for every clone in .gitlab/build.sh, e.g.

   export GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0   # fail fast instead of prompting for a username
   git_clone_retry() {
       for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
           git clone "$@" && return 0
           echo "git clone failed (attempt $i), retrying in $((i*15))s" >&2
           sleep $((i*15))
       done
       return 1
   }

   GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 alone turns the confusing "could not read Username" into a clear could not read Username ... terminal prompts disabled and prevents any risk of a hang; the retry loop absorbs the throttling. Setting git config --global http.postBuffer/--depth 1 consistently also reduces load (the abseil clone at line 253 is a full clone followed by a shallow fetch — make it --depth 1 --branch "${ABSL_TAG}").
3. Best long-term: pin these deps to release tarballs fetched via wget --tries=3 (as libfabric already is), or mirror them internally / clone with a CI token, so image builds don't depend on anonymous GitHub quota.

Related: none found — issue/PR search returned no prior report of this clone failure.

[svc-nixl]

🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-container-pr · commit 0f2ef13e

TL;DR: Two of the four parallel container builds died at git clone of third‑party GitHub repos with fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address — github.com refused the unauthenticated clone and git had no TTY to prompt, so the RUN step exited 128. Fix is to authenticate (or retry/mirror) the third‑party clones in contrib/Dockerfile, as already proposed in PR #2263.

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-build-container-pr #694 — the Parallel stage failed because two "Build image" branches (stage IDs 174 and 207) aborted during git clone of etcd-cpp-apiv3 and nvidia/gusli.

Root cause: Not a code defect in the PR commit. contrib/Dockerfile clones a series of third‑party repos anonymously over HTTPS. On this run github.com answered two of those clones with an auth challenge (the classic response when an unauthenticated CI egress IP trips rate limiting / abuse detection). git then tried to prompt for a username, found no controlling terminal inside the buildah step (No such device or address), and returned exit 128:

• Stage 174, 17:08:19 — STEP 34/73 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/etcd-cpp-apiv3/etcd-cpp-apiv3.git → subprocess exited with status 128 → Error: building at STEP ... exit status 128
• Stage 207, 17:15:31 — STEP 36/73 git clone https://github.com/nvidia/gusli.git → same failure

Supporting evidence that this is environmental rather than a build regression: the failures hit different steps in different variants of the same build, the other two variants completed the identical steps successfully, and both logs show continuous compile output right up to the failing clone (no hang, no timeout). The gusli clone is also unpinned and full‑depth (no --depth 1, no ref), which maximizes exposure to this.

Implicated commit: unknown — commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] (branch record-build-info) does not touch the failing clone steps. The pre-existing pattern dates to the container Dockerfile's dependency-build section (most recent related touch: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String], NirWolfer, "build: bump CUDA and CI base images").

File: contrib/Dockerfile:197 (etcd-cpp-apiv3 clone) and contrib/Dockerfile:209 (gusli clone)

Suggested fix:

1. Land/rebase onto PR ci: authenticate third-party github.com clones #2263 ("ci: authenticate third-party github.com clones") so these clones carry credentials — e.g. a build secret consumed via git config --global url."https://x-access-token:${TOKEN}@github.com/".insteadOf https://github.com/, mounted with RUN --mount=type=secret so the token never lands in an image layer.
2. As defence in depth, wrap each clone in a bounded retry with backoff, and set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 so a credential challenge fails fast with a clear message instead of the misleading /dev/tty error.
3. Pin and shallow the gusli clone (--depth 1 --branch <tag>) to match the other dependencies, and consider mirroring these third‑party deps into the internal registry/cache so container builds don't depend on github.com availability at all.

Related: #2263 (ci: authenticate third-party github.com clones) — the direct fix for this failure mode.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-dl-gpu · commit 0f2ef13e

TL;DR: test/python/test_nixl_api.py::test_prep_mem_view fails on the DL GB200 nodes because UCX rejects the local device mem-list — invalid memh for md_index=6/7 — i.e. the VRAM buffer registered by nixlUcxContext::memReg() via plain ucp_mem_map() has no registration on the device-capable MD that ucp_device_local_mem_list_create() requires; it is not caused by PR #2264.

Full analysis

Summary: Stage "Run DL Python tests" (node id 228) failed: pytest -s test/python → 1 failed, 25 passed — test_prep_mem_view raised nixl_cu13._bindings.nixlBackendError: NIXL_ERR_BACKEND from both spawned ranks.

Root cause: Both mp.spawn workers died in the local overload of prep_mem_view (test line 293). The UCX-level errors in the log are explicit:

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

nixl::ucx::createMemList(nixl_meta_dlist_t…) builds the element from md->getMem().getMemh() (src/plugins/ucx/mem_list.cpp:110-122), and that memh comes from nixlUcxContext::memReg(), which calls ucp_mem_map() with only FLAGS|LENGTH|ADDRESS — flags left 0, no UCP_MEM_MAP_PARAM_FIELD_MEMORY_TYPE, no device/GDA registration hint (src/plugins/ucx/ucx_utils.cpp:651-658). On these aarch64 GB200-NVL4 / CUDA-13 DL images the memh therefore carries no registration on the MD backing the UCX device lane (md_index 6 and 7 in the two ranks), so ucp_device_local_mem_list_create() fails with UCS_ERR_INVALID_PARAM. Nothing hung — the whole pytest run took 25.6 s and the srun exited 1 promptly.

This is not a regression from this PR: build #2310 (different commit, different node gb200-nvl4-ts2-77) shows the byte-for-byte identical failure, with the md_index values merely swapped between ranks. The test's guards (bindings.HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API and torch.cuda.device_count() >= 2) only check the build-time UCX device API flag and GPU count, so the test runs on nodes where no device-capable MD registration actually exists.

Implicated commit: [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String] — x41lakazam, "BINDINGS/PYTHON: Expose prepMemView (local + remote overloads)" (#1715) added test_prep_mem_view; the registration path it depends on (memReg) is unchanged since the device-API v2 work (0c654f2, Raul Akhmetshin).

File: src/plugins/ucx/ucx_utils.cpp:651 (memReg — ucp_mem_map params), with the failure surfacing at src/plugins/ucx/mem_list.cpp:119 and test/python/test_nixl_api.py:293

Suggested fix:

1. Product fix: when built with HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API, register VRAM so the memh is usable by the device API — add UCP_MEM_MAP_PARAM_FIELD_MEMORY_TYPE with UCS_MEMORY_TYPE_CUDA for VRAM_SEG in nixlUcxContext::memReg() and set the device/exported registration flag (mem_params.flags) instead of leaving it 0, so the buffer is registered on the GDA/device MD; alternatively ensure device-MD registration for the worker's device lane just before ucp_device_local_mem_list_create().
2. Make the test honest in the meantime: replace the compile-time HAVE_UCX_GPU_DEVICE_API skip with a runtime capability probe (attempt a 1-descriptor local prep_mem_view in the worker and pytest.skip/xfail on nixlBackendError), so DL nodes without a device-capable MD skip rather than red the pipeline. Do not simply retry — the failure reproduces deterministically across builds and nodes.

Related: #2194 — bugfix: test: make the device API tests actually run (same area: device-API tests silently not running / now running where unsupported); test-introducing PR #1715.

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