feat(validators): support AICR_NCCL_RUNTIME_IMAGE override for NCCL checks - #2386
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In `@validators/performance/nccl_benchmark_runtime_test.go`:
- Around line 443-445: Add table-driven regression coverage for the NCCL
runtime-image contract: in
validators/performance/nccl_benchmark_runtime_test.go:443-445, test
embedded-runtime override and custom-runtime bypass through applyNCCLResources;
in pkg/validator/v1/job_plan_internal.go:203-214, verify forwarding only to
default, NET, and NVLS checks, omission of blank values, and rejection of
catalog injection; in validators/performance/nccl_runtime_image.go:67-170, cover
blank and valid inputs, malformed references returning ErrCodeInvalidRequest,
replacement of all workload containers, and preservation of unrelated sidecars.
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Multi-persona review — Approve with comments
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Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick
Overall
The implementation is correct and fail-closed. The unstructured-map mutation chain (NestedSlice → mutate live refs → SetNestedSlice) is sound and mirrors the existing applyNCCLWorkerScheduling pattern; buildEnv forwarding is correctly scoped to the three NCCL checks, dedups the catalog-supplied duplicate (trust boundary preserved), and omits blank/unset; both fail-closed paths (malformed ref → ErrCodeInvalidRequest, touched==0 → ErrCodeInternal) are right; the {fix-ssh-perms, node} container scope covers all shipped templates with the GKE tcpxo-daemon sidecar correctly excluded. go vet clean; distribution/reference already vendored. No runtime correctness bug found.
Every surviving finding is a completeness gap against issue #1751's own explicit success criteria — none blocks on correctness, but F1 (docs) and F2 (tests) are enumerated close-criteria and should land before #1751 is considered satisfied.
🟠 Major — surfaced here (they concern absent content, so no inline anchor)
🟠 New env var AICR_NCCL_RUNTIME_IMAGE is undocumented. Zero hits across docs/ + README.md + CHANGELOG.md. Siblings are documented — AICR_NCCL_FABRIC (docs/user/validation.md:53,65) and AICR_VALIDATOR_IMAGE_* (docs/contributor/validator.md:389). This breaks the mandatory "update docs in the same PR" rule for a new env var, and misses issue #1751 criteria (b) distinguish from aicr validate --image / AICR_VALIDATOR_IMAGE_* and (d) recommend immutable digests. make qualify does not catch a missing section.
→ Add a paragraph in docs/user/validation.md beside AICR_NCCL_FABRIC: scope (overrides the launcher/worker CUDA/NCCL/MPI workload image in the baked-in templates; nccl-all-reduce-bw/-net/-nvls only), the explicit "this is not the validator snapshot-agent image" contrast, fail-fast-on-malformed, no effect on a recipe-supplied runtime, and a digest-pinning recommendation.
🟠 Issue-mandated unit tests are absent. No test exercises resolveNCCLRuntimeImage / applyNCCLRuntimeImageOverride / setWorkloadImages, and the buildEnv forward branch (job_plan_internal.go:210-214) has 0 executions — while the sibling ncclFabricEnv has a full suite (TestBuildJobPlan_ForwardsNCCLFabricEnv, job_plan_test.go:531). TestEmbeddedCatalog_NCCLEntriesExist only locks entry names. The untested surface includes both fail-closed guarantees. This is issue #1751 criterion (a), already flagged by CodeRabbit; no automated gate blocks it (validators/ is excluded from the coverage floor; the funcs are unexported).
→ Add nccl_runtime_image_test.go (table-driven: unset/blank → "", valid tag + valid digest passthrough, malformed → ErrCodeInvalidRequest; apply: no-op on "", renders into every fix-ssh-perms+node, tcpxo-daemon untouched, replicatedJobs-absent + touched==0 → ErrCodeInternal), and clone the ncclFabricEnv scoping block in job_plan_test.go for ncclRuntimeImageEnv.
Confirmed non-issues (examined, cleared)
- Mutation/aliasing & ordering — override-then-scheduling do independent read-modify-write cycles; no lost update.
- buildEnv trim asymmetry — orchestrator forwards verbatim, pod
TrimSpaces; whitespace-only → no-op. Harmless, matchesncclFabricEnv. customRuntime == ""gating — a recipe-supplied runtime correctly owns its own image; override + validation skipped.- Mutable tag accepted — not a code defect:
ParseNormalizedNamedcorrectly accepts any well-formed ref; issue #1751 only recommends digests (a docs obligation, folded into the docs finding).
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| 🔴 Blocker | 🟠 Major | 🟡 Minor | 🔵 Nitpick |
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| 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recommendation: Approve with comments.
Two 🟠 findings are described in this summary (they concern absent files/tests and have no diff line to anchor to); the 🟡/🔵 findings are inline below.
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In `@validators/performance/nccl_benchmark_runtime_test.go`:
- Line 531: Update the test call around applyNCCLResources to pass a non-empty
custom runtime override, then modify applyNCCLResources to skip runtime-image
mutation whenever customRuntime is non-empty while retaining the existing image
application behavior for empty customRuntime.
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In `@docs/user/validation.md`:
- Around line 78-82: Update the runtime-image documentation near the
AICR_NCCL_RUNTIME_IMAGE guidance to state the minimum contract: the image must
provide a compatible all_reduce_perf binary and MPI runtime, support SSH-based
startup, and include the fabric-specific dependencies required when using -net
or -nvls. Clarify that the image must be operationally compatible, since
resolveNCCLRuntimeImage() validates only image-reference syntax.
- Line 80: Update the platform example around the CUDA 12.9 image reference to
replace the relative word “today” with a stable pinned image tag or digest, or
an explicit date such as August 29, 2026, so the documentation does not become
stale.
- Around line 88-89: Update the statement describing validateNcclAllReduceBw to
say the reference fails before any NCCL benchmark resources are created, rather
than claiming it runs before any cluster resources are created.
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Multi-persona re-review — Approve with comments
Method: re-review delta. My prior review stands; the two fix commits since (dbcf084c tests, 46bd9ec1 docs) were dispositioned against the resolved code, then a persona panel (Correctness/Test-coverage · Docs/Operability) → adversarial senior meta-review adjudicated net-new findings. Affected-package tests pass locally.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick · ✔️ Addressed · ◐ Partially addressed
Prior-feedback status
| Prior finding | Disposition | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
🟡 Godoc cites a verifying test that doesn't exist (nccl_runtime_image.go:41) |
◐ Partially | TestNCCLRuntimeTemplatesShareOneImage now exists and catches the second-distinct-image half; the container-rename half stays unenforced — see the inline 🟡 on nccl_runtime_image_test.go. |
🟡 Resolved image reaches logs but not evidence (nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint.go:326) |
✔️ Addressed | actualValue now carries (runtime image: …) on both pass and fail branches, embedded-path only. |
🔵 Non-deterministic drift error order (nccl_runtime_image.go:174) |
✔️ Addressed | containerNameList() sorts keys. |
New findings
Five, all inline: two 🟡 (test-hardening) and three 🔵 (one test cosmetic, two docs). The one worth acting on before merge is the tautological custom-runtime subtest — the CodeRabbit-requested regression test doesn't exercise the contract it names.
Confirmed non-issues (examined)
- Docs anchors
#validator-image-tagsand#supplying-a-benchmark-runtime-for-a-private-serviceboth resolve — no lychee breakage. - Fail-fast ordering claim is accurate —
resolveNCCLRuntimeImage()runs before any resource creation. - Evidence-string change fires only on the embedded path (both pass + fail branches), never for a custom runtime.
job_plan_test.goforwarding subtests (default/NET/NVLS, catalog-can't-shadow) assert real behavior, not tautologies.catalog_test.go'sTestEmbeddedCatalog_NCCLEntriesExistpredates the two fix commits — outside this delta.
Summary
🔴 0 · 🟠 0 · 🟡 2 · 🔵 3 — Prior: 2 ✔️ addressed, 1 ◐ partial. Strong fix round; net-new items are test-hardening and docs polish, no production defect. Approve with comments.
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@mohityadav8, please ensure all commits are signed and verified.
…hecks Adds an env-var override for the NCCL launcher/worker workload image baked into per-platform TrainingRuntime templates, so operators can qualify a different CUDA/NCCL/MPI combination (e.g. CUDA 13 on GKE TCPXO) without rebuilding the validator image. Closes NVIDIA#1751
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Verified at Item 2 now gates on Three of the four further regressions are also fixed: the stale "Only logged on timeout" comment is gone from both files, One is still open: The branch is |
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There are still a few remaining issues to fix at 8b85a2c3. The substantive feedback from the earlier rounds is genuinely addressed in the code — the compile break, the tracked binary, the swallowed cleanup timeout, the whitespace-only override gap, the evidence surfacing, the override gating on the delivered-runtime path, and the shadowed declarations all check out. What is left came in with the last main merge.
Two lint failures on the mandatory gate. golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./validators/performance/... ./pkg/validator/... at this head reports:
validators/performance/nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint.go:319:6: Function 'validateNcclAllReduceBw' has too many statements (74 > 70) (funlen)
validators/performance/nccl_roce_apply_test.go:51:27: newFakeDynamicClient - objs always receives nil (unparam)
The same command reports 0 issues at 8544b9ba8, the main commit merged into this head, so both are introduced here. Both were reported in the 2026-09-05 round and have come back; funlen is now 74, up from the 71 reported then.
Two comments damaged by the merge. One is literal corruption (a file path spliced into the middle of a word), the other now documents the exact defect this PR fixes. Details inline.
The branch is also BEHIND — main has advanced to 3d9dac528 — so it needs a rebase onto origin/main before it can merge.
Verification: go vet ./validators/performance/... clean; go test ./validators/performance/... passes; golangci-lint run on this head and on 8544b9ba8 as a control. make qualify was not run.
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Two of these block the merge gate and are not yet visible on the PR, because CI has not run on this head. The rest are small and all sit in files the branch already touches. Two further items are replies on existing threads that are not fully addressed.
Worth noting the pattern: both blocking items and three of the others come from merge resolutions that kept the branch's stale side over main's newer content. A git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD after each merge, checking for files this feature has no reason to touch, would have caught the golden file immediately.
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… miscategorization, fix stale test comment Golden file: the last merge from main dropped entries for three GB200 GKE COS leaves (inference-dynamo, training-kubeflow, training-slurm) that still exist and resolve. Regenerated -- pure addition, no other leaf affected, stable across repeated runs. cleanupNCCLResources's namespace-termination wait unconditionally wrapped any error from waitForNamespaceGone as ErrCodeTimeout, miscategorizing the ErrCodeInternal and ErrCodeUnavailable cases that helper can also return. Now propagates the error as returned. Fixed a test comment left over from before the override gate moved from customRuntime to plan.recipeSupplied().
…/mohityadav8/aicr into feat/nccl-runtime-image-override
Merge from main brought in pkg/bundler/deployer/crds.go and the apply-crds.sh.tmpl feature, which changes install.sh content and adds apply-crds.sh for CRD-owning components across many leaves (including gb200-eks-ubuntu-training-slurm, unrelated to this PR). Regenerated the golden to match; this PR makes no rendering changes of its own.
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All my comments addressed, approved. It's blocked by Mark's comments. cc @mchmarny, please take a look.
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Adds an env-var override for the NCCL launcher/worker workload image baked into per-platform TrainingRuntime templates, so operators can qualify a different CUDA/NCCL/MPI combination (e.g. CUDA 13 on GKE TCPXO) without rebuilding the validator image.
Ref #1751