fix(kwok): decouple presence check from the budget - #2510
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A pull or load that succeeded using the last of the 180s budget was reported as a cache miss: the presence check drew its timeout from the same deadline, so a spent budget answered "not cached" without asking Docker. The image was then left to an in-cluster pull instead of being side-loaded into the Kind node. Give the final verdict its own bound, keep the in-loop and pre-flight checks on the deadline, and select the failure message from timeout's exit code rather than from empty stderr. Fixes #2502 Signed-off-by: Varun Ramesh <varamesh@nvidia.com>
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In `@kwok/scripts/lib/preload-image_test.sh`:
- Line 396: Remove the duplicate invocation at
kwok/scripts/lib/preload-image_test.sh:396, leaving one preload_pull_retry call
so its assertions inspect the slow-success result. Also remove the duplicate
invocation at kwok/scripts/lib/image-cache_test.sh:441, leaving one
image_cache_load call so its assertions inspect the delayed-load result.
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Bounding every presence probe at PRELOAD_PROBE_TIMEOUT narrowed an allowance the deadline-bound check previously gave: a busy but responsive Docker Engine taking longer than 5s, with most of the budget still unspent, was killed and reported as a cache miss. That traded the budget-spent false miss for a slow-daemon one. Bound each probe by the larger of the remaining budget and the constant, so the constant only guarantees a fair chance once the deadline is spent. Signed-off-by: Varun Ramesh <varamesh@nvidia.com>
Review follow-ups on the reporting path. A failed attempt that a later attempt superseded was still named as the cause, because last_err/last_rc survived the success break. And a killed docker that emitted only a blank line produced whitespace, which is non-empty, so it outranked the exit code and printed an empty "last error:". Clear the carried cause on a successful pull, add a branch for a pull that reports success without the image landing, and test emptiness on a whitespace-stripped copy. Require the deadline argument, and correct the comments that described the probe bound as a cap or as ignoring the budget -- it is a floor that still reads the budget. Signed-off-by: Varun Ramesh <varamesh@nvidia.com>
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In `@kwok/scripts/lib/preload-image_test.sh`:
- Line 420: Remove the repeated preload_pull_retry invocation at
kwok/scripts/lib/preload-image_test.sh lines 420-420, retaining one call to
validate the slow-success result; likewise retain only one invocation at lines
514-514 to validate the failure-then-success result, preserving the associated
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Method: 3 independent persona reviewers (Correctness & Shell Robustness · CI-DX / Operability · Test-coverage) → adversarial senior meta-reviewer re-deriving each claim from the resolved code. Anchored to head 6e1407db.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick
Overall assessment
A tight, unusually well-documented diagnostics-only fix. The core defect is real and correctly diagnosed: preload_have_image bounded docker image inspect by the remaining run budget, so a spent deadline answered "not cached" without asking Docker — turning a pull/load that succeeded on the last of the budget into a logged failure with an inferred (wrong) cause. The fix cleanly separates "is the image on disk" (preload_image_cached, bounded by max(remaining, PRELOAD_PROBE_TIMEOUT=5) — a floor, not a cap) from "is there budget left to do more work" (preload_remaining), and applies the new probe only at the two verdict sites, leaving the two pre-flight sites deadline-bound. That split is exactly right.
Independently verified:
- The "no functional caching change" invariant holds. Across all three callers (
preload_image,image_cache_save,image_cache_load) the only return-value change is the intended one — a truly-cached image under a spent budget now returns a hit at the verdict sites instead of a false miss.image_cache_save's gate still fails closed,image_cache_loadstays best-effort, and no downstream caller branches differently on any other input. - The new ceiling (budget + one probe floor, ≤ +5s per preload, one probe not per-retry) is true — no path stacks two probe-floors; in-loop checks stay deadline-bound.
- The 5-way message cascade is exhaustive with no contradictory reachable state.
last_rc==0 && attempt≥1is reachable only via the success break, so "reported success but the image is not present" is always accurate; a real docker cause correctly out-ranks the rc-124 timeout message (pinned by case 13). - Both verdict-site regression guards genuinely fail against pre-fix code (case 14 and image-cache case 17b) — the suite guards the fix rather than merely characterizing it.
Local verification: both suites pass (39 cases green); shellcheck --severity=error clean, --severity=style introduces nothing new (only the expected annotated SC1091).
Confirmed non-issues (examined, not flagged)
image-cache.sh:201— on-disk image reported as a miss under a fully-spent budget. The pre-loadpreload_have_imagestays deadline-bound (correct: a pre-flight check shouldn't start work with no budget). Pre-existing (line untouched by this PR), unreachable in practice (the image-cache budget is fresh at the start of its dedicated job), and harmless (best-effort — the pull path finds it present anyway). No change recommended.- CodeRabbit "duplicate test invocation" — false positive (the two calls sit in separate
reset-delimited cases); already refuted and withdrawn.
Summary
| 🔴 Blocker | 🟠 Major | 🟡 Minor | 🔵 Nitpick |
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Recommendation: Approve with comments. Both nitpicks are optional test hygiene — nothing blocks merge. The functional change is correct, the diagnostics-only scope is verified, and the suite guards the fix.
| # already while writing this fix. | ||
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| export STUB_INSPECT_RC=0 # image IS present | ||
| export STUB_INSPECT_SLOW=7 # slower than the 5s floor, well inside the budget |
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🔵 Nitpick — Suite wall-clock grows ~35s from real sleeps
STUB_INSPECT_SLOW=7 slows every docker image inspect, and with the image present preload_pull_retry hits it twice — the in-loop preload_have_image (which breaks immediately, leaving attempt==0) and the final preload_image_cached — so this case alone costs ~14s; cases 14–19 add ~35s total.
Blast radius: CI feedback latency only; no correctness impact.
Fix: Optional — a smaller STUB_INSPECT_SLOW (still > the 5s floor, e.g. 6) with a tighter deadline halves case 17's cost while still proving floor-not-cap.
| # load == that timeout the load is killed instead of completing, and the | ||
| # case fails intermittently on the load-failed branch without ever | ||
| # reaching the probe it exists to test. | ||
| export STUB_LOAD_SLOW=1 # exits 0 with >=1s to spare inside its timeout |
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🔵 Nitpick — load-then-slow-probe rides a ~1s timing margin
budget=3 with STUB_LOAD_SLOW=1 starts the load's own timeout at ~3s against a 1s sleep — the thinnest margin in the new set. Your own comment flags it: if the pre-load checks burn ~2s, the load timeout collapses toward STUB_LOAD_SLOW and the case false-fails on the docker load failed branch before reaching the probe under test. Low-probability (stubs are instant) but worth hardening.
Blast radius: Intermittent red on a loaded runner; not a product defect.
Fix: Caveat if you widen it: the guard depends on leftover_budget_after_load < STUB_INSPECT_SLOW — that inequality is what kills a pre-fix deadline-bound probe while the floored probe survives, i.e. what makes this a regression test and not a characterization one. Raising the budget to 5–6 makes leftover ≥ STUB_INSPECT_SLOW, so a pre-fix probe would also complete and the case would pass against the buggy code — silently neutering the guard. Keep leftover < STUB_INSPECT_SLOW ≤ 5 while widening the load margin, e.g. budget=4, STUB_LOAD_SLOW=1, STUB_INSPECT_SLOW=4.
Widen image-cache case 17b to budget=4 for a ~3s load margin, moving STUB_INSPECT_SLOW to 4 to keep leftover-after-load < STUB_INSPECT_SLOW <= 5 so the case still fails against pre-fix code. Lower preload case 17's STUB_INSPECT_SLOW to 6, the least value above the 5s floor. Signed-off-by: Varun Ramesh <varamesh@nvidia.com>
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Summary
preload_have_imagebounded itsdocker image inspectby the remaining run budget, so a spent deadline made it answer "not cached" without asking Docker at all. A pull or load that succeeded using the last of the budget was therefore reported as a failure, and the log named a cause that had not happened.This is a reporting fix. Per #2502: "Impact: Diagnostics only — misleading failure causes in KWOK lanes; no functional caching change."
Motivation / Context
The budget governs how long we spend trying to get an image, not how long we may take to observe the result. One check answered both questions, so the clock could veto a fact about the disk.
Concretely,
image_cache_saveloggedCould not pull <image> within 600sfor an image it had just pulled successfully, andpreload_pull_retryreportedno pull was attempteddirectly beneath the line announcing the attempt.What this does not change: a genuinely exhausted budget still ends in the kubelet pull.
preload_image's side-load andimage_cache_save'sdocker saveeach do their own budget check, and with no time left there is nothing to transfer a ~250MB image with. Correcting that would be a functional change, which #2502 explicitly excludes.Fixes: #2502
Related: #2483, #2496, #2497
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
cmd/aicr,pkg/cli)cmd/aicrd,pkg/server)pkg/recipe)pkg/bundler,pkg/component/*)pkg/collector,pkg/snapshotter)pkg/validator)pkg/errors,pkg/k8s)docs/,examples/)kwok/scripts/lib/)Implementation Notes
1. Separate the two questions.
preload_image_cached()answers only "is the image on this host". Bounded by the larger of the remaining budget andPRELOAD_PROBE_TIMEOUT— the constant is a floor, not a cap, so a spent deadline cannot silence it while a busy-but-responsive daemon keeps the allowance it always had. Capping at the constant would simply trade one false miss for another.2. Applied at the verdicts, not the pre-flight checks.
preload_image_cacheddocker loadpreload_image_cachedThe two unchanged sites are pre-flight: there a spent budget correctly means do not start more work, and it is what keeps the retry loop inside its ceiling.
3. Report the observed cause. The message is selected from the attempt counter and the pull's exit code, never inferred:
attempt == 0→ no pull was attemptedlast_rc == 0→ the pull reported success but the image is absenttoomanyrequestsand then be killedlast_rc == 124→ killed by the budget timeout with no causeTwo subtleties worth review attention.
last_err/last_rcare cleared on a successful pull, so a failed attempt that a later attempt superseded is never reported as the reason. And emptiness is tested on a whitespace-stripped copy, becausetr '\n' ' 'turns a killed docker's blank line into a space, which would otherwise print an emptylast error:and hide the exit-code diagnosis behind it.Ceiling. The real ceiling is the budget plus at most one probe floor — one probe per call, not per retry, so it does not scale with the retry count. Stated in the header comment and encoded in two assertions.
Testing
94 cases pass. Verified in CI, not only locally — the
Discover Recipesjob ran both suites and all 18 Tier 1 matrix cells passed.New cases, and what each guards:
cached-after-budget-spent-*timeout-killed-pull-names-attempt-and-causesilent-pull-failure-is-not-blamed-on-the-budgetload-then-slow-probe-*superseded-failure-is-not-blamedblank-stderr-kill-still-names-the-timeoutslow-but-responsive-probe-is-a-hitThat last pair is labelled as such in the file: it cannot fail against
main, which already allowed the slow inspect via the deadline. It pins floor-not-cap against a future change that turns the constant into a ceiling — a mistake made once already while writing this fix.Timing-sensitive cases were run repeatedly for flakiness, with a documented margin at every boundary so a tick of the clock cannot shrink a timeout onto its own stub duration.
shellcheck -S styleoutput is identical to the pre-change baseline.make qualify: run, and it fails intools/api-diff_test.sh— reproduced identically on a cleanorigin/mainworktree, so it is pre-existing and unrelated.make test-shellglobs onlytools/*_test.shand never sees these files.Risk Assessment
Two KWOK helper scripts on a best-effort path that returns 0 on every branch by design. The kubelet fallback is unchanged, so the worst case is today's behaviour. Both files are covered by unit suites CI runs on any
kwok/**PR.Rollout notes: No migration or flags. Revert is a two-file revert. No new external dependencies.
Checklist
make testnot run as no Go changedshellcheck --severity=errorclean, style identical to baselinehanging-inspect-is-bounded) was re-stated asbudget + probeto match a deliberate design change, and documented. An early attempt at the message ordering broke existing case 13; the suite caught it and the ordering was reverted rather than the case weakenedgit commit -S)