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
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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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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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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
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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 |
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🟡 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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…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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Multi-persona re-review (delta) — Approve
Method: re-review delta against head c6afa33d. Prior findings dispositioned against the resolved code → one adversarial senior meta-review independently re-derived each disposition and hunted for net-new defects.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick · ✔️ Addressed · ✖️ Not addressed
Verdict
Approving. No correctness or security blockers; the feature is correct and fail-closed. The three new commits since my last review are a re-signed/rebased history — my prior CHANGES_REQUESTED was purely about commit signing, which is now resolved (all commits verified). Every remaining item is non-blocking test/docs polish. Thanks @mohityadav8.
Overlaps with @mchmarny's approval (no findings against c6afa33); I confirm their two operational notes independently — affected-package tests pass locally, and the branch is behind main (a rebase is required by the merge gate before merge).
Prior-feedback status
| Prior finding | Disposition | Evidence |
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🟡 Godoc cited a verifying test that didn't exist (nccl_runtime_image.go:41) |
✔️ Addressed | TestNCCLRuntimeTemplatesShareOneImage now exists (:196) and verifies the cited one-image invariant. |
🟡 Resolved image not in structured evidence (nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint.go:479) |
✔️ Addressed | actualValue carries (runtime image: …), embedded path only. |
🔵 Non-deterministic drift error order (nccl_runtime_image.go:177) |
✔️ Addressed | containerNameList() sorts. |
Signing (CHANGES_REQUESTED) |
✔️ Resolved | All commits now verified. |
| 🟡 Tautological custom-runtime subtest | ✖️ Open | Inline (F-D) — the one item worth acting on. |
| 🔵 ShareOneImage regex blind / keysOf unsorted / docs "today" / bold-label | ✖️ Open | Inline — all optional polish. |
Still-open findings
All non-blocking, filed inline: one 🟡 (F-D, a test that misrepresents its coverage — worth a quick fix before merge) and four 🔵 nitpicks (test hardening + docs). None gates the merge.
Confirmed non-issues (net-new hunt — nothing found)
Independently re-derived by the meta-reviewer:
- Forwarding (
job_plan_internal.go:210-214) scoped to exactly the 3 NCCL checks; the catalog-supplied duplicate is stripped at:236— a catalog-injectedAICR_NCCL_RUNTIME_IMAGEcannot survive (trust boundary intact). resolveNCCLRuntimeImage: trims →""unset, malformed →ErrCodeInvalidRequest.applyNCCLRuntimeImageOverride:touched==0→ErrCodeInternaldrift error;tcpxo-daemonexcluded; one image into all workload containers.- Resolution gated on
customRuntime==""; evidence surfaced only on the embedded path.
🔴 Blocker 0 | 🟠 Major 0 | 🟡 Minor 1 | 🔵 Nitpick 4 Recommendation: Approve
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Re-review (delta). Independent persona lenses (correctness/merge-integrity + Go/domain), senior meta-review adjudication, blocker reproduced via a real build. Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick.
Overall
The PR's own content is unchanged since my prior approval — the only commit since is a single merge of main (zero new author commits), and all eight prior findings remain resolved or accepted. The AICR_NCCL_RUNTIME_IMAGE override logic survived the merge intact, and the newly-merged gb200/oke/runtime-net.yaml template is covered by the container allowlist and the ShareOneImage glob.
But the merge regressed CI. It absorbed main's #2443 refactor, which added nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint_test.go calling runNCCLTrainJob with the old 7-arg signature — while this PR's merged production code now needs 8 args (the added runtimeImage). The merge updated the production signature and the PR's own tests but left 6 of main's test call sites stale, so go test ./validators/performance/ no longer compiles and make test / make qualify / CI is red. The non-test module builds clean; this is the sole regression.
🔴 Blocker — validators/performance test binary does not compile
validators/performance/nccl_all_reduce_bw_constraint_test.go lines 294, 353, 389, 424, 457, 1520 each call:
runNCCLTrainJob(vctx, gpuConfig, "", "", variantDefault, fabricEFA, "") // 7 argsbut the merged signature is now runNCCLTrainJob(..., customRuntime string, runtimeImage string) — 8 args. go test ./validators/performance/ fails with "not enough arguments in call to runNCCLTrainJob."
Fix: append , "" (empty runtimeImage) to each of the 6 calls. With that patch applied, the full performance suite passes (ok … ~4.5s).
(This file isn't in the PR's file set — it arrived via the merge — so this can't be an inline diff comment.)
Prior-feedback status — all resolved or accepted
| Prior finding | Tier | Disposition |
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| Godoc cites a verifying test that doesn't exist | 🟡 | ✔️ Addressed — TestEmbeddedCatalog_NCCLEntriesExist + TestNCCLRuntimeTemplatesShareOneImage exist |
| Runtime image in logs but not structured evidence | 🟡 | ✔️ Addressed — actualValue carries (runtime image: %s) |
| Non-deterministic container-name order in drift error | 🔵 | ✔️ Addressed — containerNameList() sorts |
| Tautological custom-runtime subtest | 🟡 | ✔️ Addressed — now asserts the override is genuinely ignored |
| ShareOneImage regex drift-blind | 🟡→🔵 | ✔️ Addressed — matches every template's workload containers, flags a 2nd image |
keysOf() unsorted keys |
🔵 | ✔️ Addressed — sorts |
| docs "CUDA 12.9 … today" relative-time | 🔵 | ⊘ Accepted (author's call) |
| docs bold-label promotable to heading | 🔵 | ⊘ Accepted (author's call) |
Confirmed non-issue
- 🔵 Tagless image reference accepted (
nccl_runtime_image.go:73) resolves:latestat pull time. Refuted as a defect — intended (docker pullsemantics), and the docs already recommend digest pinning.
Summary
🔴 Blocker 1 | 🟠 Major 0 | 🟡 Minor 0 | 🔵 Nitpick 0 — the single blocker is merge-introduced and trivially fixable; once the 6 call sites are patched, the PR returns to its previously-approvable state.
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Two CI gates are red at 829cc59, and the second is only visible once the first is fixed.
Compile. The merge combined main's new seven-argument test callers with this branch's eight-argument runNCCLTrainJob signature without updating the integration call sites. At first parent 4a81ade the test file contained no runNCCLTrainJob calls; main introduced six, the branch introduced the runtimeImage parameter, and the merge was textually clean but semantically broken. go build succeeds; go vet, go test, and golangci-lint all fail. golangci-lint collapses this to a single typecheck issue, which masks everything below.
Lint. After repairing only those six calls in a scratch overlay, golangci-lint 2.13.1 reports exactly five further issues in the package: funlen 71 > 70 on validateNcclAllReduceBw, three govet shadow declarations, and one unparam. The same command at origin/main (bf610a5db) reports 0 issues, so all five diagnostics are new at this head and the mandatory zero-issue gate stays red until each is addressed. After the mechanical fix, go test ./validators/performance passes.
Beyond CI, one behavioral defect and one documentation inaccuracy.
The two ends of the override disagree on what "set" means. The orchestrator forwards on a raw non-empty value; the validator pod trims and treats the result as unset. A whitespace-only value is therefore visible on the Job's env while the run silently uses the compiled-in default — an explicit qualification override that reports success without being applied, which is the outcome #1751 asks the implementation to fail clearly on.
Separately, docs/user/validation.md says a malformed reference fails "before any cluster resources are created." Resolution runs inside an already-created validator Job, so the namespace, RBAC and the Job itself already exist by then.
Scope question, not a code finding. The PR says Closes #1751. A maintainer comment on 2026-08-03 proposed expanding that issue to cover all performance-validator workload images, including the inference-perf vLLM image pinned in model_cache.go:104 and testdata/inference/dynamo-deployment.yaml. If that proposal is treated as binding, this PR should either implement the inference side or drop the Closes and open explicit follow-up tracking.
The branch is a merge of an older main rather than a rebase, 6 ahead and 8 behind. The up-to-date-branch gate will require git fetch origin main && git rebase origin/main regardless.
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Request changes: 1 MAJOR new against adb57f8; 3 prior findings resolved. Only lightweight repository checks were reported at the reviewed commit; focused package tests passed, but they no longer cover this cleanup-timeout regression.
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Request changes: 2 MAJOR new against e3b884a; 1 prior finding resolved. Only lightweight repository checks are reported at the reviewed commit; targeted exact-head tests passed.
MAJOR: Do not close #1751 before the required qualification. The PR body says Closes #1751, but that issue's current success criteria require a CUDA 13 run on GKE H100/TCPXO with R580+ and logs proving TCPXO/FastRak carried traffic instead of Socket fallback. The reviewed tree implements and reports the override, but supplies no qualification artifact. Merging as written closes the remaining acceptance work and can present CUDA 13/TCPXO as qualified without the required transport proof.
Minimum correction: Attach reproducible qualification evidence satisfying #1751, or replace the closure directive with a non-closing reference so that criterion stays tracked.
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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