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When using a precompiled driver and all gpu nodes are not ready, gpu-operator will loop to deleted and recreated nvidia-driver-daemonset #715

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1. Quick Debug Information

  • OS/Version(e.g. RHEL8.6, Ubuntu22.04): RHEL8.9
  • Kernel Version: 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8.9
  • Container Runtime Type/Version(e.g. Containerd, CRI-O, Docker): Containerd 1.6.31
  • K8s Flavor/Version(e.g. K8s, OCP, Rancher, GKE, EKS): 1.25.16
  • GPU Operator Version: 23.6.2

2. Issue or feature description

Briefly explain the issue in terms of expected behavior and current behavior.

When using a precompiled driver and all gpu nodes are not ready, gpu-operator will loop to eleted and recreated nvidia-driver-daemonset.

3. Steps to reproduce the issue

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue.

  1. Create a k8s cluster with one GPU nodes.
  2. Install gpu-operator and configure driver.usePrecompiled = true.
  3. Login to the GPU node and trigger the node not ready through systemctl stop kubelet
  4. nvidia-driver-daemonset will be deleted and recreated, and this process will continue until the GPU node is Ready.

When the node is not ready, the node taints like this:

Taints:             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute
                    node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoSchedule

But the nvidia-driver-daemonset pod tolerations is like this:

  tolerations:
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: nvidia.com/gpu
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoExecute
    key: node.kubernetes.io/not-ready
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoExecute
    key: node.kubernetes.io/unreachable
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: node.kubernetes.io/disk-pressure
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: node.kubernetes.io/memory-pressure
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: node.kubernetes.io/pid-pressure
    operator: Exists
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: node.kubernetes.io/unschedulable
    operator: Exists

Node taint node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoSchedule is not tolerated, so nvidia-driver-daemonset .status.desiredNumberScheduled is 0.

Following the logic of cleanupStalePrecompiledDaemonsets, nvidia-driver-daemonset will be deleted and then created again because the cluster still has GPU nodes.

// cleanupStalePrecompiledDaemonsets deletes stale driver daemonsets which can happen
// 1. If all nodes upgraded to the latest kernel
// 2. no GPU nodes are present
func (n ClusterPolicyController) cleanupStalePrecompiledDaemonsets(ctx context.Context) error {
opts := []client.ListOption{
client.MatchingLabels{
precompiledIdentificationLabelKey: precompiledIdentificationLabelValue,
},
}
list := &appsv1.DaemonSetList{}
err := n.client.List(ctx, list, opts...)
if err != nil {
n.logger.Error(err, "could not get daemonset list")
return err
}
for idx := range list.Items {
name := list.Items[idx].ObjectMeta.Name
desiredNumberScheduled := list.Items[idx].Status.DesiredNumberScheduled
n.logger.V(1).Info("Driver DaemonSet found",
"Name", name,
"desiredNumberScheduled", desiredNumberScheduled)
if desiredNumberScheduled != 0 {
n.logger.Info("Driver DaemonSet active, keep it.",
"Name", name, "Status.DesiredNumberScheduled", desiredNumberScheduled)
continue
}
n.logger.Info("Delete Driver DaemonSet", "Name", name)
err = n.client.Delete(ctx, &list.Items[idx])
if err != nil {
n.logger.Info("ERROR: Could not get delete DaemonSet",
"Name", name, "Error", err)
}
}
return nil
}

This does not appear to be normal behavior.

The temporary solution is to add the following configuration when installing gpu-operator:

daemonsets:
  tolerations:
  - key: node.kubernetes.io/unreachable
    operator: Exists
    effect: NoSchedule

4. Information to attach (optional if deemed irrelevant)

  • kubernetes pods status: kubectl get pods -n OPERATOR_NAMESPACE
  • kubernetes daemonset status: kubectl get ds -n OPERATOR_NAMESPACE
  • If a pod/ds is in an error state or pending state kubectl describe pod -n OPERATOR_NAMESPACE POD_NAME
  • If a pod/ds is in an error state or pending state kubectl logs -n OPERATOR_NAMESPACE POD_NAME --all-containers
  • Output from running nvidia-smi from the driver container: kubectl exec DRIVER_POD_NAME -n OPERATOR_NAMESPACE -c nvidia-driver-ctr -- nvidia-smi
  • containerd logs journalctl -u containerd > containerd.log

Collecting full debug bundle (optional):

curl -o must-gather.sh -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/gpu-operator/master/hack/must-gather.sh 
chmod +x must-gather.sh
./must-gather.sh

NOTE: please refer to the must-gather script for debug data collected.

This bundle can be submitted to us via email: operator_feedback@nvidia.com

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