[NirWolfer]

The AWS EFA pod clones the repo and checks out the pull-request/<N> branch by name, about 2.5 minutes after the job is submitted. copy-pr-bot deletes or moves those branches when a PR is merged or updated, so the pod either fails before any test runs or tests a different commit than the one GitHub reports. The runner itself is unaffected, since actions/checkout fetches by SHA.

Example: PR #2363 was merged at 21:51:47 and its mirror branch deleted right after. The AWS job was submitted at 21:52:15, and the pod's checkout failed with error: pathspec 'pull-request/2363' did not match any file(s) known to git (run).

The branch-name checkout dates back to the original AWS script (#212) and was kept in #1434.

Changes:

• contrib/aws-efa/aws_test.sh: the pod now runs git init + git fetch --depth 1 <repo> <ref> + git checkout --detach FETCH_HEAD, where <ref> is GITHUB_SHA, falling back to GITHUB_REF when GITHUB_SHA is unset (manual runs). git fetch accepts a branch name, refs/heads/... or a SHA, so the refs/heads/ stripping is no longer needed. Nothing in the pod's build or tests reads git history, so a shallow fetch is enough.
• contrib/aws-efa/aws_test.sh, contrib/aws-efa/README.md: document GITHUB_SHA and the fallback.

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• Bug Fixes
  • AWS test jobs now fetch and check out the exact commit specified by GITHUB_SHA when available, falling back to GITHUB_REF otherwise. This avoids tests running against a different commit if a pull request branch changes before the job starts.
• Documentation
  • Updated AWS test instructions to clarify that GITHUB_SHA takes precedence and that GITHUB_REF may be a branch name or full commit SHA.

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The AWS EFA test script prefers GITHUB_SHA and uses GITHUB_REF when GITHUB_SHA is unset. It fetches the selected reference and checks out FETCH_HEAD detached. The README and usage text describe this behavior.

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AWS EFA test checkout

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Select and fetch test reference contrib/aws-efa/README.md, contrib/aws-efa/aws_test.sh	The README and usage text describe GITHUB_SHA precedence and the GITHUB_REF fallback. The script fetches the selected reference at depth 1 and checks out FETCH_HEAD detached.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-gpu · commit f65f90e8

TL;DR: The "Run CPP tests" stage never ran a single test — the scctl/srun websocket relay dropped (close 1006 abnormal closure) while pyxis was still importing the ~25 GB test image, aborting the step; fix is to import/cache the container image outside the timed test step (as PR #2378 proposes) and retry on transient stream closures.

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Summary: nixl-ci-gpu #3974 stage "Run CPP tests" (stage ID 184) failed with script returned exit code 1 before .gitlab/test_cpp.sh produced any output.

Root cause: Infrastructure/CI-harness failure in the Slurm launch path, not a code defect:

• 11:18:25 — scctl --raw-errors client connect -- srun ... --container-image="…/nixl-ci-gpu-test:3974" bash -c '.gitlab/test_cpp.sh /opt/nixl run_uring'
• 11:18:30 — pyxis: importing docker image: …/nixl-ci-gpu-test:3974
• 11:20:22 — Error: error streaming command in container: error reading from error stream: next reader: websocket: close 1006 (abnormal closure): unexpected EOF

The srun died ~112 s in, still inside the pyxis image import, so test_cpp.sh never executed — there is no test name, assertion, or stack trace anywhere in the stage log. The image is large (the later squashfs export reports 24.6 GB compressed / 30 GB uncompressed, 519 683 inodes), so the import is a long, output-silent operation and the scctl websocket relay was torn down mid-transfer.

Everything after that is the failure-handling path, not additional faults: the exportEnroot:true hook fired, then spent 11:21→11:38 looping on srun: Job 104126 step creation still disabled, retrying (Requested nodes are busy) because the aborted step was still draining, and finally wrote /enroot_images/nixl-ci-3974.sqsh. That accounts for the 24.5 min stage duration — this is not a timeout (the 1 hr stage timeout never expired) and not a hang in NIXL code.

Infra telemetry corroborates that the node itself was fine: slurm_metrics.slurm_nodes_local for node_name='mizu01' across 11:10–11:50 shows continuous reporting, state MIXED, empty reason, cpu_load 3.7–10.3 and ~1.5 TB free memory — no DRAIN/DOWN/OOM. slurm_metrics.slurm_jobs_all_local shows allocation job_id 104126 (nixl-ci-gpu-3974, nodes mizu01) with a terminal row CANCELLED at 11:43:36, i.e. the expected teardown by the pipeline_stop stage, with no state_reason indicating node failure.

Implicated commit: unknown — f65f90e (branch ci/aws-checkout-sha) is not implicated; the build and image push both succeeded and no project code was reached.

File: Jenkins Slurm harness invocation in stage "Run CPP tests" — slurm.run(... dockerImage: …nixl-ci-gpu-test:3974, exportEnroot: true) in the swx-jenkins-lib shared library; test entrypoint .gitlab/test_cpp.sh:1 was never invoked.

Suggested fix:

1. Pull/import the container image in a separate, untimed step before the test stage so the long pyxis import is not carried over a scctl websocket stream — this is exactly what open PR ci: import the Slurm container image before the timed test stages #2378 ("ci: import the Slurm container image before the timed test stages") does; land it.
2. Make slurm.run treat websocket: close 1006/error streaming command in container as retryable and re-issue the srun (1–2 retries) instead of failing the branch, since no test ever started.
3. Gate the exportEnroot core-dump export on the test script having actually started; here it burned ~22 min exporting a container that never ran a test, and its --oversubscribe step contended with the dying step ("Requested nodes are busy").
4. Re-run #3974 to confirm — given the node was healthy and nothing project-side executed, this should pass on retry.

Related: #2378 (import Slurm container image before timed test stages); #1800 (introduced the on-failure enroot container export)

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