fix(nvsnap): keep captures on node-local disk, not the boot volume - #937
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The agent wrote captures, staging and overlay upperdirs under /var/lib/nvsnap/*. On a typical cloud GPU node that is the boot volume, while containerd sits on the instance-local NVMe array -- so a capture was read from fast local disk and written to a slow network-backed one. Only hostPaths.checkpoints had already been pointed under the containerd root. A 70B cachedir capture is ~132 GB and took ~28 min, which matches that volume class's baseline throughput rather than local disk. The same bytes also accumulate on the root filesystem, so a couple of large captures on one node approaches kubelet disk-pressure eviction, which affects every pod on the node. Point nvsnapCache, nvsnapStaging, nvsnapOverlays and the L2 hostBundleRoot under the containerd root, and align the Go fallbacks (RootfsCaptureConfig.CacheDir, DefaultHostBundleRoot) with the chart so a chart-less deployment behaves the same. Operators whose containerd is not on the fastest local disk can still override. Putting source and destination on one filesystem is also what makes a future reflink possible. Also fix the e2e capture wait, which was a flat 15 min against a quantity that scales with model size: it failed the test while the agent was still succeeding. It now scales with the declared GPU count and honors NVSNAP_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT. The bundle-root test asserted a hardcoded literal, so it pinned the old path; it now derives from DefaultHostBundleRoot. Closes #936 Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/webhook/restore_entrypoint_test.go (1)
117-132: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPin the required default separately from the derived path.
want := DefaultHostBundleRoot + ...verifies only that the mutator follows the constant. The test still passes if both regress to/var/lib/nvsnap/bundle. Add an exact default assertion, or add a Helm-render test, to protect the Go/Helm default contract.Proposed test addition
func TestRestoreBundle_HostPathInjected(t *testing.T) { + if DefaultHostBundleRoot != "/var/lib/containerd/nvsnap-bundle" { + t.Fatalf("DefaultHostBundleRoot = %q, want /var/lib/containerd/nvsnap-bundle", DefaultHostBundleRoot) + } m, pod := l2RestoreFixture(t)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/test-e2e.sh`:
- Around line 647-651: Validate CAPTURE_GPUS after its defaulting and before the
arithmetic that computes CAPTURE_TIMEOUT, requiring a decimal integer of at
least 1; also validate an explicitly set NVSNAP_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT as a positive
decimal integer. Reject invalid inputs before calculating CAPTURE_TIMEOUT or
DEADLINE, while preserving the existing defaults for unset values.
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`@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/webhook/restore_entrypoint_test.go`:
- Around line 117-132: Add an explicit assertion in the restore entrypoint test
that DefaultHostBundleRoot retains the required default value, separately from
the derived nvsnap and nvsnap-lib HostPath expectations. Keep the existing path
assertions to verify mutation uses the configured bundle root.
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Bash evaluates a non-numeric string as 0 inside $(( )), so a hand-edited
or malformed nvsnap.io/gpus annotation ("abc", "1.5", "0", "-1") made the
timeout 900 + 900*(0-1) = 0. The capture wait then expired immediately
and failed the step while the agent was still working -- the same
test-fails-while-product-works trap this timeout was added to fix.
Validate both the annotation and NVSNAP_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT, falling back to
the single-GPU default and warning when the override is unusable.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
The agent wrote captures, staging and overlay upperdirs under
/var/lib/nvsnap/*. On a typical cloud GPU node that resolves to the boot volume, while containerd sits on the instance-local NVMe array. OnlyhostPaths.checkpointshad already been pointed under the containerd root, so the single largest writer -- the capture itself -- went to the slowest disk on the node.This surfaced while measuring a 70B TP=4 cachedir capture: ~132 GB taking ~28 min, which matches the boot volume class's baseline throughput rather than local NVMe. The node in question had five local NVMe drives in a RAID array, ~13 TB free, unused by nvsnap.
The throughput cost is the visible half. The other half is node stability: captures accumulate on the root filesystem, and a couple of large ones on a single node is enough to approach kubelet disk-pressure eviction, which affects every pod on that node rather than just nvsnap.
Because source and destination also landed on different filesystems, a same-filesystem reflink (
FICLONE) was not available even though containerd's filesystem supports copy-on-write clones.What changed
nvsnapCache,nvsnapStaging,nvsnapOverlaysand the L2hostBundleRootnow default under the containerd root.hostBundleRootis set explicitly rather than left empty so the chart passes--webhook-host-bundle-rootand the agent flag, the DaemonSet mount and the webhook-injected function-pod mounts cannot disagree.RootfsCaptureConfig.CacheDir,DefaultHostBundleRoot) so a chart-less deployment behaves the same.NVSNAP_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT.DefaultHostBundleRoot.Operators whose containerd is not on the fastest local disk can override any of these.
Customer Release Notes
Checkpoint captures now land on node-local storage instead of the node boot volume, substantially reducing capture time for large models and removing a source of node disk pressure.
Plan Summary
Changes hostPath defaults for the nvsnap agent DaemonSet. On upgrade the agent reads from the new paths, so any captures already cached under the old paths are orphaned and should be reclaimed by operators.
Usage
Not applicable.
Testing
go build ./...clean.internal/webhook,internal/agentandinternal/checkpointstorepass. Not yet exercised end to end on a cluster: the storage change needs a Helm upgrade and a fresh capture to confirm the improvement, and the measurement that motivated it should be redone afterward. Flagging that explicitly rather than implying it is validated.Notes
Follow-ups, not in this PR:
References
Closes #936
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