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What this PR does / why we need it:

Ascend hami-core Coresreq is a 0-100 percentage. On current nodes the plugin advertises physical AICore as Totalcore (8/20/24/30), which is not that percentage.

This change keeps a 100-point Fit budget by default. It only uses the advertised Totalcore when the device plugin reports Devcore > 100.

It is meant to be used with Project-HAMi/ascend-device-plugin#132. That plugin PR registers Devcore = round(100 * deviceCoreScaling). This scheduler PR consumes that advertised value. The scaling knob stays on the plugin (hamiVnpuCore.deviceCoreScaling). HAMi Helm is not changed.

  • advertised Totalcore <= 100: budget stays 100
  • advertised Totalcore > 100: budget is the advertised value
  • Coresreq=100 stays exclusive when the budget is oversold
  • a card already held by one full-core occupant rejects later requests, including legacy vNPU
  • -core: "30" still fits when physical Totalcore is 20

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #2951

Special notes for your reviewer:

AI assistance: Cursor helped draft the patch. I reviewed the Fit budget and exclusive checks. I wrote the commit messages.

Hardware (scheduler extender Fit):

  • 8 x Ascend 910B3, npu-smi / driver 25.5.0
  • plugin deviceCoreScaling=1.5 (advertised Devcore 150)
  • 3 pods with -core: "30" and 1 with -core: "20" on the same UUID: all scheduled (110 <= 150)
  • default budget 100 rejects the fourth (CardInsufficientCore)
  • physical Totalcore=20 still admits -core: "30"

go test ./pkg/device/... and golangci-lint run ./pkg/device/ascend/... pass.

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

No. Behavior changes only when the coupled plugin advertises Devcore > 100.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved Ascend device allocation with hami-core, including support for advertised oversell capacity.
    • Corrected admission decisions for full-core requests and exclusive allocations.
    • Prevented allocation conflicts when a card is already occupied by a full-core workload.
    • Automatically inferred hami-core virtual device mode when a positive core request is provided without a declared mode.
    • Rejected incompatible template-mode workloads on nodes that support hami-core.

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Walkthrough

The Ascend plugin infers Hami-core mode for positive core requests, normalizes physical budgets to 100, honors advertised budgets above 100, and rejects conflicting full-core allocations. Tests cover oversell capacity, sharing, legacy requests, and init-container exclusivity.

Changes

Ascend Hami-core scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hami-core mode admission
pkg/device/ascend/device.go
Adds VNPUModeTemplate. Admission infers Hami-core mode for positive core requests without a declared mode. Fit rejects template-mode pods on Hami-core nodes.
Budget calculation and allocation checks
pkg/device/ascend/device.go
Fit uses a 100-point base for physical budgets and honors advertised budgets above 100. It detects full-core conflicts, including collapsed single-occupant usage.
Hami-core scheduling validation
pkg/device/ascend/device_test.go
Tests cover budget normalization, oversell admission, capacity rejection, shared allocations, legacy requests, and init-container exclusivity.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 047c9

This change updates Ascend hami-core scheduling budgets for scaled device-plugin core advertisements while retaining full-core exclusivity. No actionable merge-blocking risk is currently identified.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Pod
  participant MutateAdmission
  participant Fit
  participant AscendDevice
  Pod->>MutateAdmission: submit core request
  MutateAdmission->>Pod: infer huawei.com/vnpu-mode
  Pod->>Fit: request Ascend device
  Fit->>AscendDevice: calculate Hami-core budget
  AscendDevice-->>Fit: return capacity and occupancy
  Fit-->>Pod: admit or reject allocation
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The budget and full-core exclusivity changes are within scope. However, adding template-mode inference and rejecting template-mode pods on hami-core nodes is not explicitly required by issue #2951 or … Move the template-mode behavior to a separate issue and pull request, or document and link an issue that makes this behavior part of the current scope.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: honoring the plugin-advertised hami-core percentage budget for Ascend devices.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #2951. They retain a 100-point Fit budget for advertised values at or below 100, honor larger advertised budgets for overselling, and add tests for admission thresholds and e…
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The budget and full-core exclusivity changes are within scope. However, adding template-mode inference and rejecting template-mode pods on hami-core nodes is not explicitly required by issue #2951 or the stated objectives.

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@DSFans2014 could you take a look when you have time?

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I am not sure whether hami-vnpu-core currently supports core(NPU_PRIORITY) oversubscription. @archlitchi

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please resolve the conflicts

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The init-container case below needs to be fixed before merging.

Comment thread pkg/device/ascend/device.go Outdated
// non-oversold rejection reason as CardComputeUnitsExhausted. The requesting
// pod's own mode is irrelevant: only hami-core pods on non-hami-core nodes
// are filtered out, so a legacy vNPU pod still reaches an oversold card.
if dev.Used == 1 && dev.Usedcores >= hamiCorePercentBase {

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Used == 1 misses the init-container case. A Pod can have an init container requesting 100 and two app containers requesting 30 each on the same card. CollapseInitContainerUsage takes the peak of each resource separately, so it records Usedcores=100, Slots=2. That makes dev.Used equal to 2 even before the init container finishes.

With a budget of 150, another Pod requesting 50 passes both the capacity check and this guard. I checked this with a test using CollapseInitContainerUsage and Fit: be3d1848 rejects it with CardInsufficientCore, while this branch accepts it.

Please cover this case and preserve the exclusive reservation across init/app phases. Dropping Used == 1 alone would block normal shared workloads once their combined usage reaches 100, so the aggregate counters aren't enough to tell these cases apart.

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You're right, and the trace checks out: CollapseInitContainerUsage takes the peak cores and the peak slots independently, so the 100 / 30 / 30 pod lands as Usedcores=100, Slots=2 and the scheduler rebuilds it as Used=2. The guard never fires.

Instead of adding a field to carry exclusivity, I kept it local to the ascend path and read the per-pod collapsed entries already hanging off the device: if a single pod holds the full base on that card, oversell is off for it. Two pods at 50 each stay below the base individually, so they keep sharing — the case you warned about removing Used == 1 would break.

Keep the hami-core 100-point Fit budget so physical AICore values
(20/24/32) do not change Coresreq admission. When the coupled plugin
advertises Devcore > 100 via deviceCoreScaling, use that percentage.

Signed-off-by: curry30000 <32156223+curry30000@users.noreply.github.com>
An oversold budget lifts effectiveTotalCore above the 100 held by an
exclusive occupant, so neither the core capacity check nor
CardComputeUnitsExhausted rejects a later pod. Fit only filters hami-core
pods off non-hami-core nodes, so a legacy vNPU pod still reached such a
card. Drop the mode condition from the exclusivity guard.

Name the percentage base instead of repeating 100, and log at V(5) when an
advertised Devcore is clamped back to it, which signals a plugin and
scheduler configuration mismatch.

Signed-off-by: curry30000 <32156223+curry30000@users.noreply.github.com>
The exclusive-occupant guard ran before the CardComputeUnitsExhausted
check, so a full card without oversell (Totalcore 100, Usedcores 100)
began reporting ExclusiveDeviceAllocateConflict instead. Admission was
unchanged but the reason surfaced to users was, which the previous commit
did not intend.

Move the guard after that check. Oversell is unaffected: with an
advertised budget of 150 the occupant's 100 never equals
effectiveTotalCore, so CardComputeUnitsExhausted cannot fire and the
guard still rejects.

Signed-off-by: curry30000 <32156223+curry30000@users.noreply.github.com>
CollapseInitContainerUsage takes the peak core usage and the peak slot
count independently, so a Pod whose init container reserves a whole card
and whose app containers then run alongside is stored as Usedcores at the
percentage base with two slots. The scheduler rebuilds that as Used=2, so
the dev.Used == 1 guard did not recognize the reservation and an oversold
budget admitted a second tenant onto an exclusively held card.

Identify the occupant from the per-Pod collapsed entries on the device
instead. A Pod holding the base on the card blocks oversell; two Pods
holding half each stay below it and keep sharing the card, so legitimate
shared allocations that add up to the base are unaffected.

Signed-off-by: curry30000 <32156223+curry30000@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@pkg/device/ascend/device.go`:
- Line 620: Update the 100-core exclusivity guard in the device allocation logic
to also trigger when nodeSupportHamiCore is enabled, preventing legacy
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hami-core devices. Add a regression case covering a legacy 100-core request
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Comment thread pkg/device/ascend/device.go Outdated
…e nodes

A pod that declares no vnpu-mode leaves isHAMiCore false, so its budget
stays at dev.Totalcore instead of the percentage base. Once the plugin
advertises an oversold Devcore neither arm of the exclusivity guard held,
and a 100-core request was admitted onto a card that already carried a
50-core allocation. Without oversell the capacity check rejected that
request first, so the gap only appears above the base budget.

Gate the guard on the node as well: where hami-core is enabled, a request
at the percentage base means the whole card whether or not the pod spells
the mode out.

Signed-off-by: curry30000 <32156223+curry30000@users.noreply.github.com>
@curry30000 curry30000 closed this Sep 8, 2026
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