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[https://nvbugs/6384589][fix] Reserve EPLB shared memory and size /dev/shm for online EPLB perf runs - #20526
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…v/shm for online EPLB perf runs Online EPLB stages every MoE layer's expert weights in POSIX shared memory on each node. Segments were created sparse, so when /dev/shm was too small the workers died with SIGBUS during the expert copy instead of reporting an error. Reserve each segment with posix_fallocate and raise a RuntimeError with the required and free sizes when the tmpfs is full. The perf-sanity launchers now mount tmpfs:/dev/shm:size=640G when a config enables online EPLB; Kimi-K2.5 NVFP4 needs about 532 GiB per node, more than the 480 GiB default on GB300. Signed-off-by: xxi <xxi@nvidia.com>
WalkthroughPerformance submission detects online EPLB and adds a 640G ChangesOnline EPLB shared-memory setup
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SubmitMain
participant AddEplbShmMount
participant UsesOnlineEplb
participant LaunchScript
SubmitMain->>AddEplbShmMount: config, mounts, llm_src
AddEplbShmMount->>UsesOnlineEplb: inspect configuration
UsesOnlineEplb-->>AddEplbShmMount: online EPLB status
AddEplbShmMount-->>SubmitMain: mounts with conditional /dev/shm tmpfs
SubmitMain->>LaunchScript: generate launch arguments
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/moe_load_balancer.py:
- Line 96: Add a narrowly scoped Bandit B108 suppression to the os.statvfs call
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| if e.errno not in (errno.ENOSPC, errno.ENOMEM): | ||
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| stat = os.statvfs("/dev/shm") |
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Resolve the Bandit failure on the /dev/shm diagnostic.
Release Checks fails because Bandit B108 flags os.statvfs("/dev/shm"). This line blocks the pre-commit check. If the fixed POSIX shared-memory mount is intentional, add a narrowly scoped # nosec B108 with that reason, or use a repository-approved equivalent.
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[error] 96-96: Bandit (B108: hardcoded_tmp_directory) flagged probable insecure use of the hardcoded path /dev/shm (CWE-377). The bandit --configfile scripts/bandit.yaml -r tensorrt_llm step failed with exit code 1.
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[error] 96-96: Bandit (B108: hardcoded_tmp_directory) flagged probable insecure use of a hardcoded temporary directory: os.statvfs("/dev/shm"). The failing command was bandit --configfile scripts/bandit.yaml -r tensorrt_llm; it exited with code 1.
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Add a narrowly scoped Bandit B108 suppression to the os.statvfs call in the
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| shm = _create_reserved_shared_memory(name, size) | ||
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| assert shm.size >= size | ||
| assert os.fstat(shm._fd).st_blocks * 512 >= size |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Gate the backing assertion on reservation support.
If posix_fallocate returns EOPNOTSUPP, _create_reserved_shared_memory intentionally returns a sparse segment. This assertion then fails on a supported fallback path. Skip the backing test when reservation is unsupported; keep the separate sparse-fallback test. As per path instructions, flag test reliability problems caused by “external-state dependence.” (man7.org)
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Gate the backing assertion in the shared-memory reservation test on reservation
support: when posix_fallocate reports EOPNOTSUPP, skip this assertion rather
than failing on the intentional sparse fallback. Keep the separate
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The only change reformats imports in
test_moe_load_balancer.py. It does not alter source code, APIs, configuration, or test behavior. No review findings or test-run results were supplied.QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_load_balancer.pychanged only in import formatting. No test functions, IDs, selectors, or waivers changed. The file is listed in CI test lists for B200, B300, GB300 multi-GPU, and H100. Coverage verdict: sufficient for this formatting-only change.Per-File QA Perspective
tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_load_balancer.py: Existing tests cover the MoE load balancer, including reserved shared-memory behavior per the supplied change summary. This file is listed in the CItest-dblists noted above; no test behavior changed.Description
Fixes https://nvbugs/6384589: GEN workers of the Kimi-K2.5 NVFP4
eplb416disaggregated perf cases die withSIGBUS(BUS_ADRERR, "Non-existent physical address") at ~90% of weight loading, on every local rank of every GEN node. This had been triaged as a node hardware fault; it is not.Root cause. Online EPLB (
moe_config.load_balancer.layer_updates_per_iter > 0) keeps a host copy of every MoE layer's expert weights in POSIX shared memory, once per node. For Kimi-K2.5 NVFP4 that is 24,772,864 B x 384 experts x 60 MoE layers = 531.6 GiB per node. In the perf-sanity containers/dev/shmis the host tmpfs default, half of RAM = 480 GiB on a GB300 node, and neither perf launcher mounts a larger one.HostMoeTensorSharer.finalize_layer_weightscreates each per-layer segment withSharedMemory(create=True), which onlyftruncate()s a sparse file, so nothing fails at creation; the kernel raisesSIGBUSonce the expert copy touches a page the tmpfs cannot allocate (54 of 60 layers fit). Other online-EPLB models in the perf lists stay under 480 GiB (GLM-5 NVFP4 379.7 GiB, DeepSeek-V3.2 / R1 FP4 304.5 GiB), which is why only the K2.5 cases fail. The retired QA harness mountedtmpfs:/dev/shm:size=640Gfor Kimi-K2, andexamples/wide_ep/README.mddocuments the same signature and fix.Changes.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/moe_load_balancer.py: EPLB segments are created through_create_reserved_shared_memory, which reserves the whole segment withposix_fallocate. When the tmpfs is full (ENOSPC/ENOMEM) the segment is removed and aRuntimeErrorreports the segment name, the required/free/total GiB and how to enlarge/dev/shm. The reservation is atomic, so the local ranks that fill the same tmpfs in lockstep cannot over-commit it between a check and the copy. Filesystems withoutfallocatesupport keep the previous sparse behaviour.jenkins/scripts/perf/benchmark_utils.py,jenkins/scripts/perf/submit.py(L0),jenkins/scripts/perf/local/submit.py(QA): when any worker config enables online EPLB (inline or file-basedload_balancer),tmpfs:/dev/shm:size=640Gis appended to--container-mounts, unless the caller already mounts/dev/shm.Reproduction and verification (oci-aga GB300, 1.3.0rc29 image, CI Kimi-K2.5-NVFP4 checkpoint, the failing GEN config with TP/EP 32 -> 4 on one node so the per-node shm demand is unchanged):
/dev/shmSIGBUSat 88% of weight load on all 4 ranks (bug signature)/health200SIGBUS; every rank raisesNot enough shared memory for EPLB segment 'moe_shared_l54_lr0_all': it needs 2.21 GiB but /dev/shm has 1.58 GiB free of 480.00 GiB ...Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_load_balancer.py(cpu_only, collected byl0_cpu.ymlunittest/_torch/moe): reserved segment is fully backed;ENOSPC/ENOMEMraise with sizes and unlink the segment; other errors propagate and unlink; filesystems withoutfallocatekeep a sparse segment.tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_host_sharer.py(existing,mpirun -np 2): exercises the new creation path end to end.tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_submit.py(l0_cpu.ymlunittest/scripts): online-EPLB detection for inline/file/aggregated configs and the checked-in K2.5 and DeepSeek-V4 static-EPLB YAMLs; mount append/no-op/caller-override; CI and localsubmit.pylaunch scripts contain the tmpfs mount for the K2.5eplb416case.Ran on a GB300 node: reserved-shm 5 passed,
test_moe_load_balancer.py22 passed,test_moe_host_sharer.py2 passed,test_perf_submit.py31 passed.PR Checklist
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