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[https://nvbugs/6919405][fix] Keep the 26.08 CUDA forward-compat driver on the 26.09 image - #20252

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The NGC PyTorch 26.09 base image (adopted in #19679) ships a newer CUDA forward-compatibility user-mode driver: /usr/local/cuda-13.4/compat/lib.real/libcuda.so.615.71.09, where 26.08 shipped 615.65.02. Every process in the container loads that compat driver ahead of the host driver. Under 615.71.09, the unchanged trtllm-gen context FMHA cubin runs 7–13% slower per call on GB200. That costs aggr_upload-ctx_only-gb200_deepseek-r1-fp4_128k8k_con1_ctx1_pp8_gen1_tep8_eplb0_mtp3_ccb-NIXL about 6% Total Token Throughput (https://nvbugs/6919405).

This PR keeps the 26.09 base image and its CUDA 13.4 toolkit, and swaps only the compat driver libraries for the 26.08 ones:

  • docker/Dockerfile.multi: new CUDA_COMPAT_TAG build arg (default 26.08-py3) and a cuda_compat stage from ${BASE_IMAGE}:${CUDA_COMPAT_TAG}. The devel stage runs install_cuda_compat.sh from that stage's /usr/local, unless CUDA_COMPAT_TAG == BASE_TAG.
  • docker/common/install_cuda_compat.sh (new): replaces lib.real (and lib.real-nvgpu where present) under /usr/local/cuda-<ver>/compat, drops the per-host .checked markers recorded against the old driver, then runs ldconfig and checks the result. It refuses to run if the source image does not ship the same CUDA major.minor.
  • docker/Makefile: passes CUDA_COMPAT_TAG. The rockylinux8 / ubuntu22 / ubuntu24 targets, which build on nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda, set it to their own BASE_TAG and so keep their compat driver.

The 615.65.02 compat package is not on the public CUDA apt repo, which only has cuda-compat-13-4 615.71.09. So the driver comes from the 26.08 NGC image itself, the same way the triton stage already copies from the tritonserver image.

Evidence (GB200, oci-hsg, CI wheels, 3 reps per arm unless noted)

arm container compat libcuda Total Token Throughput (tok/s)
cc63e66 (good, L0_PostMerge 3010) 26.08 615.65.02 5762.79, 5773.45, 5762.85
fbbeac3 (parent of #19679) 26.08 615.65.02 5694.95, 5681.31, 5682.42
b5a0afd (#19679) 26.09 615.71.09 5333.89, 5346.08, 5352.32
c490057 (bad, L0_PostMerge 3012) 26.09 615.71.09 5349.26, 5369.66, 5357.72
fbbeac3 + NCCL forced to 2.31.2 26.08 615.65.02 5733.02, 5733.99
b5a0afd, 26.09 + only /usr/local/cuda-13.4/compat from 26.08 26.09 615.65.02 5703.03, 5704.28
  • [TRTLLMINF-474][infra] Upgrade NGC PyTorch base image to 26.09 #19679 alone accounts for −5.92% of the −7.03% good→bad gap. Per-arm CV is 0.11–0.19%.
  • NCCL 2.30.7 → 2.31.2 is not the cause (row 5).
  • A same-node A/B of the two containers also shows no difference in dense torch/cuBLAS ops (F.linear at every MLA/router shape with M=131072, bmm, norm, copy, softmax).
  • The last row is the change in this PR, applied by bind-mount. Workers were verified to map libcuda.so.615.65.02, and the run recovers the full gap.
  • Torch-profiler kernel attribution, all 8 PP ranks, fbbeac3 vs b5a0afd: fmhaSm100aKernel_QkvE4m3OBfloat16HQk192HV128SeparateQkvCausalVarSeqQ256Kv128PersistentContext is +6.9% to +12.7% per call. It is the same cubin with the same grid, block, smem and registers, and it is ~83% of each stage's non-NCCL GPU time at 131k tokens. Every other kernel class is within ±3%.
  • A CTA co-residency probe shows the same 2 CTAs/SM at 115,328 B smem under both drivers, so occupancy is not the difference.
  • I also ran install_cuda_compat.sh inside the published 26.09 TRT-LLM image. It replaced the driver, the NGC shell-init compat check reported CUDA Driver OK, and torch mapped libcuda.so.615.65.02.

Full triage, with per-rank kernel tables and isolation runs, is on https://nvbugs/6919405.

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Done:

  • Built the images with this change: L0 #64146 at 33d6b6f built all CI, NGC devel and release images. The 26.09-based CI images contain the install_cuda_compat.sh layer (BASE_TAG=26.09-py3 CUDA_COMPAT_TAG=26.08-py3). The Rocky 8 and SBSA wheel images keep their own driver (CUDA_COMPAT_TAG == BASE_TAG).
  • Retagged the CI images into sw-tensorrt-llm-docker-local/tensorrt-llm with scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f, run against main's copy of jenkins/current_image_tags.properties. That file now points at the …-202610150933-20252 tags, and no tensorrt-llm-staging tags remain in the PR.
  • The same images, under their staging tags, ran L0 #64245. On the DGX_H100 stages the container start-up check printed _CUDA_COMPAT_STATUS=CUDA Driver OK. None of that run's failures came from the driver; they are listed in the PR comments.

Pending:

  • /bot run --disable-fail-fast on the retagged images.
  • Re-measure GB200-8_GPUs-2_Nodes-PyTorch-PerfSanity-Node2-GPU8-Post-Merge-2; the ctx_only DSR1 PP8 case should reach ≥5650 tok/s.

release/1.3 picked up the same 26.09 image in #20146 and shows the same step; the cherry-pick is #20397.

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The Docker build selects a CUDA compatibility image and conditionally installs its driver libraries into the development image. The installer validates and replaces library files, clears checked markers, runs ldconfig, and verifies libcuda.so.1. Make targets pass the compatibility tag, and Jenkins image properties use updated tags.

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Validate and install compatibility libraries
docker/common/install_cuda_compat.sh
The script checks for source and destination compatibility libraries, replaces destination libraries, removes checked markers, runs ldconfig, and verifies libcuda.so.1.
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docker/Dockerfile.multi, docker/Makefile, jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
The Docker build defines a compatibility image tag and invokes the installer when it differs from the base tag. Make targets pass the tag; configured targets set it to the base tag. Jenkins image properties use updated staging image tags.

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  DockerBuild->>CompatibilityStage: Build from compatibility image tag
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48-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Make the replacement atomic to avoid a broken compat driver on partial failure.

The loop runs rm -rf on the destination before cp -a. If cp fails midway, set -e aborts the script and the destination has no driver. The Docker RUN fails in that case, so the image is not produced. The risk is small, but copying to a temporary path and then using mv removes the window.

Also, lib.real-nvgpu is removed even when the source lacks it. This matches the header comment ("where present"), so this part is fine.

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Status update on the image build: no image tagged for this PR has been published yet.

The first Build-Docker-Images run (L0 #64014) did build the five CI images that jenkins/current_image_tags.properties points to (x86_64 and SBSA tritondevel, SBSA ubuntu24 py312, Rocky 8 py310 and py312), as …-293f4d3-github-pr-20252-64014 in tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel. I checked the SBSA CI image directly:

  • install_cuda_compat.sh ran in its build history;
  • inside the container, /usr/local/cuda-13.4/compat/lib.real/libcuda.so.1 resolves to libcuda.so.615.65.02;
  • torch 2.14.0a0+nv26.09 / CUDA 13.4 / NCCL 2.31.2 are unchanged.

The run still failed, but only on the SBSA release image. Since #19431 that image needs the BOLT-optimized wheel from the build stage (TensorRT-LLM-GH200.tar.gz), and a --stage-list "Build-Docker-Images" run skips the build stage, so the job polled for the tarball for 60 minutes and then gave up. The open image PRs #19783 and #20099 lost the same image the same way, so this isn't caused by the change here.

I rebased onto current main to pick up the etcd bump from #20175 (the PR's diff is unchanged) and re-ran Build-Docker-Images with --disable-fail-fast, so the CI images get rebuilt even if the SBSA release image fails again.

Once those images exist, the tag bump needs scripts/rename_docker_images.py <L0 build> 20252 --commit 33d6b6f, run by someone with push rights to sw-tensorrt-llm-docker-local/tensorrt-llm, the same way #19679 and #20175 bumped theirs. @EmmaQiaoCh @yuanjingx87, could one of you do the retag once the run finishes? I'll push the resulting current_image_tags.properties change here and re-run CI.

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The CI images for the rebased head 33d6b6f are built (L0 build 64146), all five in tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel:

  • x86_64-tritondevel-torch_skip-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146
  • sbsa-tritondevel-torch_skip-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146
  • sbsa-ubuntu24-torch_skip-py312-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146
  • x86_64-rockylinux8-torch_skip-py310-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146
  • x86_64-rockylinux8-torch_skip-py312-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146

The two tritondevel images (the ones that get the 26.08 compat driver) have the install_cuda_compat.sh step in their build history. The Rocky 8 and Ubuntu 24 images build on nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda with CUDA_COMPAT_TAG == BASE_TAG, so they keep their own driver, as intended.

The retag, for someone with push rights to sw-tensorrt-llm-docker-local/tensorrt-llm, run from this branch:

python3 scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f

That pushes the five images under …-skip-tritondevel-<timestamp>-20252 tags and rewrites jenkins/current_image_tags.properties. Push that file change to this branch, or tell me the timestamp and I'll commit it. Then /bot run validates the PR on the new images.

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Every image for this PR has now been built and pushed (L0 #64146, head 33d6b6f), including the SBSA release image that failed in the first run:

  • CI images (tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel): x86_64 and SBSA tritondevel, SBSA ubuntu24 py312, and Rocky 8 py310/py312, all …-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146.
  • NGC devel: x86_64 and SBSA.
  • Release: x86_64/sbsa-ngc-release and x86_64/sbsa-trtllm.

The pipeline still reports FAILURE, but only from Register NGC Image For Security Check: the nSpect/LaunchAPI scan was still IN_PROGRESS when the wait timed out. CI's own analysis classifies that as infrastructure. No build step failed.

So the retag is unblocked. Someone with push rights to sw-tensorrt-llm-docker-local/tensorrt-llm can run, from this branch:

python3 scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f

Then commit the resulting jenkins/current_image_tags.properties and run /bot run. @EmmaQiaoCh @yuanjingx87

…er on the 26.09 image

The NGC PyTorch 26.09 base ships CUDA forward-compatibility driver 615.71.09
(26.08 shipped 615.65.02). Under it the unchanged trtllm-gen context FMHA cubin
runs 7-13% slower per call on GB200, which costs
aggr-ctx_only-gb200_deepseek-r1-fp4_128k8k_con1_ctx1_pp8_gen1_tep8_eplb0_mtp3_ccb-NIXL
~6% Total Token Throughput since NVIDIA#19679.

Add a CUDA_COMPAT_TAG build arg (default 26.08-py3) and replace the base
image's /usr/local/cuda-13.4/compat driver libraries with that tag's during the
devel stage. The CUDA toolkit is untouched, and the base image's shell init still
validates and selects the compat driver at container start. Targets built on
nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda keep their own compat driver.

Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>
…6.08 compat driver

Point jenkins/current_image_tags.properties at the CI images that L0
build 64146 built from this branch (commit 33d6b6f), so pre-merge tests
run on the pinned compat driver. These are staging tags; they will be
promoted to tensorrt-llm tags with scripts/rename_docker_images.py
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Rebased onto main (head aaaa8a4) and pointed jenkins/current_image_tags.properties at the CI images that L0 #64146 built from this branch, so this run tests on the pinned compat driver. Nothing that goes into those images changed on main since 33d6b6f: no edits to docker/, constraints.txt or scripts/generate_container_oss_attribution.sh.

#17891 did the same: it ran CI on its staging tags, then switched to promoted tags in a follow-up commit. The tensorrt-llm-staging/tritondevel tags still need promoting before merge, and I can't push to sw-tensorrt-llm-docker-local/tensorrt-llm. Once CI passes, @EmmaQiaoCh or @yuanjingx87, could you run this from the branch:

python3 scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f

It retags the same images and rewrites the tags file.

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Correction to the command above: rename_docker_images.py builds the new tag names from the values already in jenkins/current_image_tags.properties. Now that this branch has staging tags there, the script has to start from main's version of the file:

git checkout origin/main -- jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
python3 scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f

A dry run of that sequence pulls the five …-33d6b6f-github-pr-20252-64146 staging images and pushes them as tensorrt-llm:…-tritondevel-<timestamp>-20252, the same form as #20175's tags.

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Cherry-pick to release/1.3: #20397. release/1.3 picked up the same 26.09 image in #20146, and its first post-merge build with it (build 31, cd4cc1778f) shows the same step on the ctx_only DSR1 PP8 case: 5346.7 tok/s, vs 5624.8–5731.8 on 26.08.

… the 26.08 compat driver

Replace the tensorrt-llm-staging tags in jenkins/current_image_tags.properties
with tensorrt-llm tags. These images are the ones L0 build 64146 built from
this branch's Dockerfile change (commit 33d6b6f), retagged with
scripts/rename_docker_images.py 64146 20252 --commit 33d6b6f run against
main's copy of the tags file.

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@EmmaQiaoCh @yuanjingx87 @hanjingtian, could one of you review this? It needs a trt-llm-infra-devs approval. Current state:

  • The five CI images were retagged to non-staging tensorrt-llm:…-202610150933-20252 tags, and the branch (2db8750) points at them. They're the same images L0 #64146 built from 33d6b6f. Since then main has changed only the release stage of docker/Dockerfile.multi ([None][feat] Publish serving configuration schemas #19906) and jenkins/BuildDockerImage.groovy ([TRTLLMINF-353][infra] skip test stages during maintenance #18353). The devel images CI tests in are unaffected, and main's own image tags haven't moved.
  • CI on these images (L0 #64380): SBSA single-GPU 27/27 passed, x86 failed 2 stages, neither caused by the compat driver:
  • On H100 (L0 #64245) the container's own check reported _CUDA_COMPAT_STATUS=CUDA Driver OK with the 26.08 compat driver, and every real test in both DGX_H100 stages passed.

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@tburt-nv @chzblych @yiqingy0, could one of you review this? It needs a trt-llm-infra-devs approval. @tburt-nv's approval would also cover trt-llm-oss-compliance, which owns docker/common/install_cuda_compat.sh. @chzblych, you approved the last two CI image bumps (#19679, #20175).

It is step 3 of NVBug 6919819. Steps 1 (#20250) and 2 (#20277, merged) are the other two. The change keeps the NGC 26.09 base and swaps only the CUDA forward-compat driver in the CI images back to the 26.08 one, because 615.71.09 slows the unchanged trtllm-gen context-FMHA cubin by 7-13% per call on GB200. The evidence table and the CI triage are in the description and in the comments above.

The images are already built and retagged to non-staging tensorrt-llm:…-202610150933-20252 tags, and the branch points at them. The CI failures so far all reproduce without this change (see the triage above).

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@coderabbitai Thanks for the nitpick. I'm leaving the script as is.

install_cuda_compat.sh only runs inside one docker build RUN step: the devel stage of docker/Dockerfile.multi. If cp -a fails partway, set -euo pipefail stops the script, and with it the RUN and the build. No layer is committed, so a half-replaced compat/ directory can't end up in any image. Copying to a temporary path and then running mv wouldn't change any outcome.

A script change would also mean rebuilding and retagging all five CI images this PR pins.

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@chenfeiz0326 Thanks for the clarification. I checked the script and its invocation in docker/Dockerfile.multi. If cp -a fails, the script exits and the RUN step fails. Docker does not commit the partial replacement to an image layer.

The temporary-copy change is unnecessary for this build-only use. I withdraw the suggestion.


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… the 26.08 CUDA forward-compat driver on the 26.09 image (#20397)

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