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The restore step never checked that the pod it launched was admitted as a
restore. When it was not, the pod cold-started, served normally, passed
every downstream check, and the harness printed restore timings that were
really cold-start timings.
Rootfs/cachedir restore manifests carry nvsnap.io/restore-from:
"__CAPTURE_HASH__". Applying such a template without substituting leaves
the webhook nothing to resolve, so it injects no cache mount and no cache
env, and the workload fetches its model again. A 70B TP=4 "restore"
measured this way spent 8m47s downloading weights; the pod had no
/opt/nvsnap mount and HF_HOME still pointed at /root/.cache/huggingface.
The number looked plausible and was used to reason about restore
performance before the mistake surfaced.
Add two guards:
- refuse to apply a restore manifest that still contains __PLACEHOLDER__
- after creating the restore pod, assert the captured cache is mounted
and the cache env points into it; fail loudly when it is not
Both were checked against the saved spec of the pod that produced the bad
number, and both fire on it.
A restore benchmark that silently degrades to a cold start is worse than
one that fails, because the result is quotable.
Closes #964
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds restore admission checks, protects rootfs capture with explicit opt-in, and updates benchmark and workload manifests to use cachedir capture. The scripts README now documents suite operation and diagnostics. Changesnvsnap restore and capture
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR makes restore benchmarks fail when a workload is not decorated, but current parsing issues can also reject valid cachedir restores and the integration test may pass without exercising the intended error path. This can turn correct restores into false failures or leave the validation path insufficiently checked, so the PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Four manifests declared nvsnap.io/path: "rootfs" while the agent, running with cachedir mode on, captured only the pod's cache mount. The label described a path that was not running. That mismatch is not cosmetic. Reading the annotation is the natural way to answer "which path did this use", and it gives the wrong answer, so analysis built on it is wrong from the start -- including a benchmark comparison this week that attributed a difference to capture path when both runs used the same one. Switch nim-qwen3-32b, vllm-tp2, vllm-70b and gpt-oss-120b to "cachedir", add that value alongside criu, and mark rootfs deprecated: no workload uses it. Also correct the descriptions that advertised whole-rootfs behaviour -- vllm-70b claimed to capture the overlay upperdir, which cachedir does not do. The annotation feeds the demo catalog and the criu conformance check; neither switches on "rootfs", so adding a value is safe. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Capture ran whole-rootfs whenever --pod-cache-dir was unset. That path succeeds quietly: it produces a capture, restores work, and nothing looks wrong -- so a cluster that lost its cachedir setting keeps running while diverging from every workload and benchmark that assumes cachedir. The difference only surfaces later as restores that behave unlike the ones that were measured, which reads as a performance mystery rather than a misconfiguration. Refuse at startup instead, where an operator sees it, and say how to fix it: set --pod-cache-dir, or pass --allow-whole-rootfs to run that path deliberately. The override exists so this is a guard rather than a removal; a deployment that genuinely needs whole-rootfs is not blocked from a code change. Tests cover all three states: refusal without the flag, the opt-in getting past the guard, and capture-disabled staying a clean no-op so the guard cannot turn "no capture" into a startup failure. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/test-e2e.sh`:
- Around line 857-860: Replace the predictable /tmp/nvsnap-restore-pod.json path
in the restore-pod polling flow with a mktemp-created file, reuse that path for
the kubectl output and subsequent Python check, and register an exit trap to
remove it after use.
- Line 883: Update the log_error message in the restore-pod validation flow to
replace the non-ASCII em dash with an ASCII hyphen or sentence separator,
preserving the existing message meaning and behavior.
- Around line 868-872: Update the cache-mount validation around mounts and
problems to use the configured podCacheDir value, requiring an exact mount at
m.CacheDir with the nvsnap-cachedir identity and expected restore source; remove
the broad startswith("/opt/nvsnap") check so unrelated paths cannot satisfy
validation.
- Around line 855-891: Update the restore-admission validator in the rootfs
restore check to require the configured PodCacheDir, match
RESTORE_CONTAINER_NAME exactly, and accept only direct mounts and cache-env
values under that exact path rather than nested or similarly prefixed paths.
Define the required cache-environment contract for missing entries, unresolved
placeholders, invalid paths, and valid decorated pods, then add focused tests
covering each case and update the restore sequence diagram if it documents this
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Apply the same fix in `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/test-e2e.sh`
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235-237: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAccept the
cachedircapture path inparseWorkloadAnnotations.The parser currently skips three workload manifests with valid restore pairs. Accept
CapturePathCacheDir, update the validation error andPathcomments, and add a parser test. Existing architecture documentation already coverscachedir; no diagram update is required unless the contract changes.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/server/manifests.go`:
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update the Path comments accordingly; add a parser test covering cachedir. The
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src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/k8s/workloads/nim-qwen3-32b.yaml lines
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- Around line 796-806: Add automated coverage in the test flow for the restore
validation gates surrounding the placeholder check and related restore manifest
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Review found the guard could pass while the workload cold-started. It fell back to containers[0] when the named container was absent, so a decorated sidecar could vouch for a workload that was not restoring. It prefix-matched the cache path, so /opt/nvsnap-other satisfied a check for /opt/nvsnap. It treated missing cache env as acceptable, though a pod that inherited none of the stamped env is not restoring from anything. And it hardcoded /opt/nvsnap rather than reading the agent's configured --pod-cache-dir, so it asserted a default instead of the cluster's setup. Now: require the exact named container, require the configured cache dir to be mounted, require at least one cache variable, and accept a cache path only when it equals that dir or lies beneath it. Also use mktemp with an exit trap instead of a fixed /tmp path, which was open to a symlink swap, and drop a non-ASCII character from a log line. TestStartRootfsCapture_EnabledFailsWithoutKubeConfig was passing on the new whole-rootfs guard rather than the kube client it is named for. Give it a PodCacheDir so it reaches the kube client again, and assert it did not stop at the guard, so the coverage cannot vanish silently a second time. Verified against the saved spec of the pod that produced the bad measurement: still aborts, now for both the missing mount and the env pointing outside the cache dir. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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889-900:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 MajorVerify the webhook-owned cache volume.
Line 890 records each mount's volume name, but Line 899 checks only the mount path. An unrelated workload volume at
cache_dir, together with pre-existing cache environment values, can pass this predicate without webhook restore admission. Require the expected webhook-injected volume identity and restore source before accepting the pod.This repeats the mount-identity concern from the previous review comment. The PR objective requires this check to prove webhook decoration.
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905-910: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo not hard-code the cache environment variable names.
The cache environment template permits adding or removing variable names, and restore replays the values captured in the manifest. A valid capture that uses another cache variable, such as a workload-specific cache root, fails this check because neither
HF_HOMEnorNIM_CACHE_PATHis present. Derive the expected variable names from the capture-stamped contract, or provide them as explicit workload configuration.The capture environment template permits arbitrary names and restore replays captured values.
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- Around line 52-54: Update the assertion in the rootfs-only integration test to
require the existing “rootfsonly: build kube client:” error prefix, or the
sentinel error exposed by buildKubeClient if available, instead of only
rejecting “whole-rootfs”.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/test-e2e.sh`:
- Around line 861-867: Update the POD_CACHE_DIR extraction in the test-e2e
script to select the container named agent rather than containers[0], parse the
DaemonSet args as individual arguments without relying on JSON array formatting,
and support both --pod-cache-dir=/path and --pod-cache-dir followed by /path
forms. Ensure only the cache directory value is captured before retaining the
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- Around line 889-900: Update the cache-volume validation around at_or_under and
the mounts mapping to require the expected webhook-injected volume identity, not
just a matching cache_dir mount path. Also validate the corresponding restore
source before accepting the pod, so pre-existing environment values or unrelated
volumes cannot satisfy the webhook-decoration check.
- Around line 905-910: Update the cache-environment validation around the
existing HF_HOME and NIM_CACHE_PATH checks to derive expected variable names
from the capture-stamped contract or explicit workload configuration, rather
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test-bench.sh had the same blind spot as test-e2e.sh: it substituted the
capture hash, applied the manifest, and measured whatever started. A pod
the webhook declined cold-starts, serves, and passes every check, so the
run produces restore timings for a cold start.
It matters more here. test-bench.sh appends its numbers to
docs/PDF-BENCH-RESULTS.md, including a "Restore: Model DL" column -- so a
cold start does not just mislead the operator, it gets published as a
benchmark row and quoted later.
Move the checks into scripts/lib/restore-guard.sh and source it from both
scripts, so the contract has one implementation rather than two that can
drift:
- assert_no_placeholders: refuse a manifest still carrying __PLACEHOLDER__
- agent_pod_cache_dir: read the deployed --pod-cache-dir instead of
assuming a default
- assert_restore_admitted: require the exact named container, the
configured cache dir mounted, and cache env
pointing at or beneath it
Verified against the saved spec of the pod that produced the bad
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Someone handed this suite had to read both scripts to learn which one to run, what the capture paths mean, why a run refuses to start, and how to force a re-capture. Write it down. The guards table is the part worth having: each entry exists because that check silently produced a wrong result before, so a guard firing is information rather than an obstacle. Documents only what this branch carries -- the capture-timeout guard belongs to a separate change and is left out until it lands. Also finish the refactor: test-e2e.sh still had its own copy of the placeholder check rather than calling the shared one, which was the duplication the shared lib was meant to remove. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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__CAPTURE_HASH__, and that restore admission fails when both HF_HOME and
NIM_CACHE_PATH are absent. Keep the existing conditions and explanations intact.
- Around line 49-52: Update the two GPU bullets in the README to remove Markdown
bold emphasis while preserving their text, code formatting, and meaning.
- Around line 91-97: Update the diagnostic command in the README to derive the
cache directory from the deployed nvsnap-agent DaemonSet’s --pod-cache-dir
configuration instead of hardcoding /var/lib/containerd/nvsnap-cache, and select
the nvsnap-agent pod scheduled on the relevant workload node rather than using
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…ituted The placeholder guard scanned the whole manifest, so a template that names its own placeholder in an explanatory comment failed even when every value was substituted correctly: 25: # test-e2e.sh substitutes __NODE_NAME__ from the source pod's status. ERROR: unsubstituted placeholder(s) above That rejected a correct vllm-small restore and failed a run that would otherwise have passed. A guard that blocks good runs is worse than the problem it was added for, and this one was caught by the first suite run rather than by me. Strip comments before matching. Verified both directions: a placeholder named only in a comment passes, a real unsubstituted value still fails, including when a comment on the same line mentions one. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
agent_pod_cache_dir parsed the wrong thing. The jsonpath rendered the whole args array, which prints space-separated rather than comma-separated, so the split on commas did nothing and the match ran past the value into the next argument: "[--pod-cache-dir=/opt/nvsnap --other=2]" yielded "/opt/nvsnap --other=2]". Emit one argument per line and match the flag exactly. Add fixture tests for the guards. They decide whether a run means anything -- they are what stops a cold start being published as a restore time -- so a guard that silently stops guarding is worse than no guard, because the green result is still believed. Eight cases covering unresolved tokens, tokens named only in comments, the argument boundary above, an absent flag, and a non-default cache dir. Assert the kube-client failure positively in the rootfs capture test. It only checked that some error occurred, so any new early return would satisfy it while leaving buildKubeClient uncovered, under a test name that no longer described it. Document what the placeholder guard actually rejects: any unresolved __[A-Z_]+__ token, not only __CAPTURE_HASH__. Make the log-location snippet read the cache dir from the deployed agent and target the node the workload ran on, rather than hardcoding a path the guard itself is careful never to assume. Remove markdown bold from scripts/README.md per the repository documentation rule. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Added The rootfs capture test now asserts the kube-client failure positively. It previously only checked that some error occurred, which any new early return would satisfy while leaving README: documented that the placeholder guard rejects any unresolved |
Restore into a criu-v2 placeholder failed 79% of the time across the single-GPU suite (3/14) with:
Error (criu/cr-restore.c:1242): Can't fork for 363: File exists
CRIU recreates a dumped tree at its exact original pids. The placeholder bumped ns_last_pid to 100000 so its own processes stayed clear of that range. That line was removed on the belief the write returns EPERM inside a container, and replaced with a comment pointing at an agent-side reservePlaceholderPIDs that was never written.
The premise was wrong: /proc is mounted rw in these pods and the write succeeds (measured, next child at pid 100003). Without it the login shell forks a few hundred times sourcing profile.d before the manifest's tail -F starts, parking a long-lived process inside the restored range. The exact landing pid varies per run, which is why it read as flakiness rather than breakage.
Restores the bump on the criu-v2 restore manifests and in restore-entrypoint, so production restores are covered whatever the tenant's command is. The agent now refuses to restore into a placeholder whose pid range was never pushed up, waiting for the reservation rather than sampling once. NIM's placeholder runs as uid 0 because its image defaults to uid 1000 and privileged does not confer root.
Verified: 14/14 on the single-GPU suite (7 workloads x 2 passes), each including a 75s soak plus a serving check, up from 3/14.
Refs #925
The placeholder half of restore-guard.sh had fixture tests; the restore-admission half had none, so the check that actually decides whether a timing is a restore or a cold start was itself unverified. Adds nine cases driven by a stubbed kubectl, needing no cluster: a decorated pod, an unconfigured cache dir, a missing container, an unmounted cache dir, absent cache env, env pointing outside the cache dir, a sibling directory sharing the cache dir's prefix, NIM_CACHE_PATH in place of HF_HOME, and a trailing slash. Three of these were checked by mutation rather than assumed. Letting a missing container fall back to containers[0], replacing at_or_under with a plain startswith, and dropping the absent-env check each turn exactly one case red. That matters here because a guard test that passes against a broken guard is the failure mode being defended against. Also completes the guard table in the scripts README, which listed only two of the five conditions restore admission can fail on. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…pid bump works Qwen3-32B on TRT-LLM captures and restores through criu-v2: checkpoint 3m03s at 103G, restore 1m55s, restored pod served inference. Its process shape differs from vLLM's, with start_server.sh, an orted MPI daemon, four python3 ranks, and asymmetric GPU images of 83.5G and 24.7G rather than an even per-rank split. That makes multi-GPU criu-v2 work on two engines, and makes the SGLang failure specific to SGLang rather than a property of anything except vLLM. Three fixes were needed and only the first is NIM-shaped. The stock image has no command: it runs /opt/nvidia/nvidia_entrypoint.sh with cmd `bash -c $SERVER_START_SCRIPT_PATH`. The manifest reproduces that startup inside the setsid convention rather than replacing it, so the entrypoint still runs and still execs the script the image names. Stdio cannot go to /tmp. isRuntimeGeneratedPath treats /tmp as runtime-generated and drops it from the rootfs diff, so the placeholder restores an empty file and CRIU refuses with "File tmp/nim.out has bad size 0 (expect 21443)". It cannot go to the container root either, because the image runs as uid 1000. /opt/nim satisfies both and matches none of the excluded patterns. The placeholder must run as root, and this is the general one. It writes /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, privileged does not confer root, and an image defaulting to a non-root uid fails that write silently, leaves its pid range unreserved, and the restore dies with "Can't fork for 336: File exists" - the exact failure the pid reservation exists to prevent. The generator now emits runAsUser 0 for every placeholder. The restored workload's own uid comes from the checkpoint, so this does not change what it runs as. This was previously known only as a hand-written note on one manifest; it is a property of any non-root image and belonged in the generator. The bump's failure message was also parenthetical, which is why an unreserved range presented as a confusing restore error rather than as itself. It now says what will happen. Only the criu-v2 placeholders are regenerated here. The others would also pick up the same correction, but they carry hand-edits that #965 already fixes, and rewriting them now would collide with it. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
Three separate defects this week shared one shape: a check that reported success while measuring or recording the wrong thing. A green result that is quietly wrong costs more than a failure, because the number gets quoted.
The worst of them was not a measurement problem at all. The placeholder stopped reserving its pid range, on the stated belief that writing
/proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pidfrom a container returns EPERM, with a comment pointing at an agent-side replacement that was never written. The premise was wrong:/procis mountedrwin these pods and the write succeeds. Without it, restores collided with pids the placeholder had already consumed:The landing pid varies per run, so it presented as flakiness rather than breakage. Measured across the single-GPU suite: 3 of 14 passing.
The measurement guards address the rest. The restore step never checked that the pod it launched was actually admitted as a restore. When it was not, the pod cold-started, served normally, passed every downstream check, and the harness printed cold-start timings labelled as restore timings. A 70B TP=4 "restore" measured this way spent 8m47s downloading weights:
What changed
Restore correctness:
ns_last_pidbump on the criu-v2 restore manifests and inrestore-entrypoint, so production restores are covered whatever the tenant's command is. NIM's placeholder runs as uid 0, because its image defaults to uid 1000 andprivilegeddoes not confer root.Capture correctness:
Measurement guards, shared by
test-e2e.shandtest-bench.shviascripts/lib/restore-guard.shso the contract cannot drift between them:__NAME__token, not only__CAPTURE_HASH__. Tokens named inside comments are ignored deliberately, since templates explain their own placeholders and a guard that fails a correct manifest is worse than the bug it guards.containers[0]would let a decorated sidecar vouch for a cold-starting workload.Plus
scripts/README.md, so the suite can be handed to someone else and run.Customer Release Notes
Restores no longer fail intermittently with a pid collision. Previously a restore could fail depending on how many processes the placeholder pod had started before CRIU ran.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
No change to how the suite is invoked. A restore that is not a real restore now fails the run instead of reporting a time.
Testing
Single-GPU suite: 14/14 (7 workloads x 2 passes), each including a 75s soak and a post-restore serving check, up from 3/14 before the pid fix. Checkpoint data is deleted after each successful run.
scripts/lib/restore-guard-test.shcovers the shared guard with 17 fixture cases and needs no cluster: placeholder substitution, any-unresolved-token, comment-named tokens,--pod-cache-dirparsing, and for restore admission a decorated pod, an unconfigured cache dir, a missing container, an unmounted cache dir, absent cache env, env pointing outside the cache dir, a sibling directory sharing the cache dir prefix,NIM_CACHE_PATHin place ofHF_HOME, and a trailing slash.Three of those were confirmed by mutation rather than assumed. Falling back to
containers[0], replacingat_or_underwith a plainstartswith, and dropping the absent-env check each turn exactly one case red. That mattered here, because a guard test that passes against a broken guard is the failure mode this PR exists to prevent.Go tests cover the pid guard (
restore_v2_pidguard_test.go) and the whole-rootfs refusal (rootfs_wholerootfs_guard_test.go).Notes
The measurement guards are scoped to the rootfs/cachedir path, where the injected-mount signature is well defined. The CRIU path has a different restore mechanism and is left alone.
This PR absorbed #1027 when that merged into this branch, which is why it is larger than its title suggested. The title and this description have been updated to match what it now contains.
References
Closes #964
Related Pull Requests
#1027 (merged into this branch)
Dependencies
None.