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The current GPU burn test waits for the pod to reach Running state using a single timeout. This is suboptimal because reaching Running requires image pull, which can be slow. The more critical early check is whether the pod can be scheduled onto a GPU node at all — this indicates that a GPU node has been discovered by the cluster.

A previous CI run failed because the pod was stuck in image Pulling and timed out before ever reaching Running, even though scheduling had succeeded and the pod was progressing normally.

Problem

The current single-timeout approach does not distinguish between two distinct failure modes:
Scheduling failure — no GPU node is available; the pod cannot be placed. This should fail fast.
Image pull delay — the pod is scheduled but the container image is taking time to pull. This is expected and should be tolerated with a longer timeout.
By conflating both phases into one timeout, the test either fails too early (cutting off a legitimate image pull) or wastes time waiting for a pod that will never be scheduled.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved GPU workload startup checks by separating scheduling delays from container startup delays.
    • GPU placement failures now fail faster with clearer diagnostics when available.
    • Workloads that complete successfully during startup validation are now handled correctly.
    • Image-pull delays continue to receive the appropriate additional wait time.
    • Preserved the original wait failure when diagnostic collection also encounters an error.
    • Applied the same improved handling to mixed-GPU configurations and post-upgrade validation.

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GPU burn validation now separates scheduling from the running phase. Pod waits accept early completion, fail fast for failed or unscheduled pods, refresh pod state, and preserve original wait errors during diagnostics.

Changes

GPU burn scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scheduling timeout and polling contract
pkg/nvidiagpu/consts.go, pkg/pod/pod.go
Adds BurnPodScheduledTimeout. Pod waits now handle Running, Succeeded, and Failed states explicitly.
MIG GPU burn two-phase wait
pkg/mig/mig.go
Refreshes pod state, skips already-succeeded pods, checks scheduling before the running phase, and preserves the original wait error when diagnostics retrieval fails.
Initial and post-upgrade validation
tests/nvidiagpu/deploygpu_test.go
Initial and post-upgrade GPU burn flows use WaitUntilRunningOrSucceeded for the intermediate wait.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5db2a

The change separates GPU scheduling from image-pull waiting, but the current behavior can still misclassify temporary scheduling states and has unresolved timeout and error-handling paths that may report the wrong failure or panic during diagnostics. These bounded test-correctness risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GPUBurnValidation
  participant PodBuilder
  participant KubernetesAPI
  GPUBurnValidation->>PodBuilder: Refresh pod state
  PodBuilder->>KubernetesAPI: Pull pod
  KubernetesAPI-->>PodBuilder: Current pod phase
  GPUBurnValidation->>PodBuilder: Wait for scheduling
  PodBuilder->>KubernetesAPI: Poll pod status
  KubernetesAPI-->>PodBuilder: Scheduled, Running, Succeeded, or Failed
  GPUBurnValidation->>PodBuilder: Wait for Running or Succeeded
  PodBuilder->>KubernetesAPI: Poll pod phase
  KubernetesAPI-->>PodBuilder: Running, Succeeded, or Failed
  GPUBurnValidation->>KubernetesAPI: Collect diagnostics after applicable wait failure
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/mig/mig.go`:
- Around line 983-986: Update isRunning to assign the initial pod.Pull result to
gpuPod before inspecting gpuPod.Object, ensuring the phase check uses the
returned builder rather than stale state. In the timeout branch, assert and
propagate err from the Running wait instead of err2 from the diagnostic pull.
- Around line 1008-1016: The MIG pod recovery flow must use refreshed data from
the initial pod.Pull result when checking the pod phase, and must not hide
errors from the subsequent WaitUntilInStatus call. Update the relevant
gpuPod/pod.Pull handling to retain the returned builder or assign it to gpuPod,
then collect pod diagnostics and explicitly assert the phase-2 wait error rather
than only asserting the diagnostic pull.

In `@pkg/pod/pod.go`:
- Around line 316-319: Update the phase-2 wait conditions in
WaitUntilScheduled-related flows to treat both PodRunning and PodSucceeded as
successful terminal states, matching the existing handling in pod status logic.
Apply this in the MIG implementation and the NVIDIA GPU deployment test,
preserving the current exact-running behavior for other phases.
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pkg/pod/pod.go (1)

316-330: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle PodScheduled=False with reason Unschedulable.

A pod with no eligible GPU node remains Pending and does not enter PodFailed. The polling loop ignores this condition and waits for BurnPodScheduledTimeout. Return an error for this condition and include cond.Message in the error.

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In `@pkg/pod/pod.go` around lines 316 - 330, Update the condition loop in the pod
scheduling poller to detect PodScheduled with status False and reason
Unschedulable, return an error immediately, and include cond.Message in the
error; preserve the existing handling for successful scheduling and other pod
phases.
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In `@pkg/mig/mig.go`:
- Around line 1016-1017: Save gpuPod.Definition.Name in a local variable before
calling pod.Pull, then use that saved name in the Expect error message. Update
the pull/assertion flow around pod.Pull so a nil failed result is never
dereferenced while preserving the existing failure behavior.

In `@pkg/pod/pod.go`:
- Around line 385-391: Update the phase handling in WaitUntilInStatus to compare
updatePod.Status.Phase with the requested status before applying the generic
corev1.PodFailed error path, so a requested PodFailed phase returns success.
Preserve the existing failure error for pods that fail while waiting for any
other phase.

In `@tests/nvidiagpu/deploygpu_test.go`:
- Around line 855-856: Update the assertion messages at
tests/nvidiagpu/deploygpu_test.go:855-856 and
tests/nvidiagpu/deploygpu_test.go:1096-1097 to describe both immediate PodFailed
errors and phase-2 wait timeouts, rather than attributing every failure to
image-pull timeout; keep the existing WaitUntilRunningOrSucceeded behavior and
error details.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@pkg/pod/pod.go`:
- Around line 316-330: Update the condition loop in the pod scheduling poller to
detect PodScheduled with status False and reason Unschedulable, return an error
immediately, and include cond.Message in the error; preserve the existing
handling for successful scheduling and other pod phases.
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In `@pkg/pod/pod.go`:
- Around line 316-329: Update pkg/pod/pod.go lines 316-329 in the scheduling
status logic to check PodScheduled=True, PodRunning, and PodSucceeded before
classifying PodFailed, so failures after scheduling are returned as phase-2
failures. Update pkg/nvidiagpu/consts.go lines 56-58 to describe phase 1 only as
scheduling confirmation, without implying every failure means GPU capacity is
unavailable. Update error classification in pkg/mig/mig.go lines 951-969 and
1024-1043 to avoid treating all phase-1 errors as GPU capacity failures or all
phase-2 errors as image-pull timeouts.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/pod/pod.go`:
- Around line 320-334: Update the pod scheduling logic around the
status-condition handling in pkg/pod/pod.go so PodScheduled=False with reason
Unschedulable remains pending and polling continues until
BurnPodScheduledTimeout; only report failure when the existing terminal failure
conditions apply. Update the comments at pkg/mig/mig.go lines 935-936 and
1007-1009 and the messages at tests/nvidiagpu/deploygpu_test.go lines 847-850
and 1088-1091 to state that scheduling was not confirmed within the timeout,
without asserting that no GPU node exists.
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