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…rator Model cache state lives today in resources NVCA infers ownership of by name and label. That is enough to create a cache but not to decide, later and from a cold start, whether a given volume still backs a live request, which storage decision produced it, or when it is safe to reclaim. Adding that memory to the existing StorageRequest would overload a type that several workflows already share. ModelCacheBinding (nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io/v2beta1) records one cache: the identity it is keyed by, the storage decision that produced it, the resources it owns, and the requests still referencing it. The schema is strict where correctness depends on it. The resource name lists are listType set, requestReferences is listType map, the storage class reclaim policy is pinned to Retain, and CEL validations keep a retiring binding from being revived and pin the provider data identity. This ships the type, its generated clientset, informers and listers, and has the operator install the CRD alongside StorageRequest and MiniService. The agent and pre-delete cleanup ClusterRoles gain modelcachebindings, and uninstall strips binding finalizers before the control namespace goes: the agent may already be stopped by then, so no reconciler is left to do it. No controller reconciles bindings yet and nothing creates one. That arrives with the storage aware cache runtime, which this CRD unblocks. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds the ModelCacheBinding v2beta1 API and CRD, generated Kubernetes clients, informers, listers, RBAC permissions, CRD reconciliation, and shutdown cleanup handling. ChangesModelCacheBinding lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR installs a persistent ModelCacheBinding API and adds uninstall cleanup for it. The cleanup path may bypass another controller’s finalizer, leave bindings behind when the backend is already absent, or strand teardown finalizers after unrelated errors; these lifecycle risks can affect cache cleanup and uninstall completion and should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
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Operator->>KubernetesAPI: install ModelCacheBinding CRD
Operator->>ModelCacheBinding: list and watch bindings
Cleanup->>ModelCacheBinding: remove finalizers and delete bindings
ModelCacheBinding-->>Cleanup: return cleanup result
Cleanup->>KubernetesAPI: delete model-cache namespace
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/cleanup.go (1)
686-688: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueDo not log and return the same error.
Each failure is logged with
log.WithError(err).Warnf(...)and also appended toerrs. The joined error is returned toCleanupBackendResources, andRunShutdownCleanuplogs it again atshutdown.goLine 225. The same failure therefore appears twice in the operator logs. Keep the aggregated return value and drop the per-item warning, or keep the warning atlog.V(1)-equivalent debug level.♻️ Proposed change
if err != nil { - log.WithError(err).Warnf("failed to remove finalizers from model-cache binding %s/%s", namespace, name) errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf( "remove finalizers from model-cache binding %s/%s: %w", namespace, name, err)) continue } err = dynamicClient.Resource(bindingGVR).Namespace(namespace).Delete(ctx, name, metav1.DeleteOptions{}) if err != nil && !k8serrors.IsNotFound(err) { - log.WithError(err).Warnf("failed to delete model-cache binding %s/%s", namespace, name) errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf( "delete model-cache binding %s/%s: %w", namespace, name, err)) }Note:
logis still used for other statements only if you keep one; otherwise remove the unused variable.As per path instructions: "For cleanup changes, preserve structured error logging: include the failed operation and context, wrap originating errors, avoid logging and returning the same error".
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src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/envtest/crds/nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io_modelcachebindings.yaml (1)
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The envtest and operator CRD files are byte-identical today, but separate consumers load them. Add a generation step or a check that fails when the files differ.
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In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/client/informers/externalversions/nvca/v2beta1/modelcachebinding.go`:
- Line 59: Update the Go code-generation template or post-processing step to
wrap generated declarations and calls at 120 characters, then regenerate the
affected files: informer NewFilteredModelCacheBindingInformer declaration and
call, typed-client Create, Update, UpdateStatus, and Patch declarations, and the
listers.New call in the listed ranges. Preserve generated-code conventions and
run the required code-generation process.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/shutdown.go`:
- Around line 226-230: Update CleanupBackendResources and RunShutdownCleanup to
distinguish deleteModelCacheBindings failures from namespace, webhook,
ClusterRole, and ClusterRoleBinding cleanup errors using a typed binding-cleanup
error. Preserve reporting of all cleanup failures, but allow finalizer removal
to continue for unrelated errors so transient pre-delete Job failures do not
leave uninstall stuck.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/crd_reconcile.go`:
- Line 45: Add a GoDoc comment immediately above the exported constant
ModelCacheBindingCRDName, ensuring the comment begins with
“ModelCacheBindingCRDName” and describes the constant’s purpose.
- Line 58: Update the error return in the ModelCacheBinding CRD reconciliation
path to wrap the underlying decode error with %w instead of formatting it with
%v, preserving errors.Is and errors.As behavior.
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In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/envtest/crds/nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io_modelcachebindings.yaml`:
- Around line 4-16: Keep the envtest and operator ModelCacheBinding CRD
definitions synchronized by establishing one authoritative source and either
generating the second copy or adding validation that fails when they differ.
Anchor the change to the modelcachebindings.nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io
CustomResourceDefinition and ensure both consumers continue loading equivalent
byte-identical content.
Apply the same fix in
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/reconcile/manifests/nvcf.nvidia.io_modelcachebindings_crd.yaml`
around lines 4 - 16.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/operator/cleanup/cleanup.go`:
- Around line 686-688: Remove the per-item Warnf logging for finalizer-removal
failures in the cleanup flow, while preserving the aggregated errs append with
its operation context and wrapped originating error. Ensure any now-unused log
variable or import is removed, and retain only lower-level logging if already
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Adds the missing GoDoc on ModelCacheBindingCRDName, and wraps the CRD decode errors with %w instead of %v so errors.Is and errors.As keep working. The whole block used %v, so all five are changed rather than leaving the new one inconsistent with its neighbours. Also records why binding cleanup failure deliberately stops the uninstall before the NVCFBackend finalizer is removed: continuing would delete the backend while bindings still hold finalizers, leaving the namespace Terminating with no reconciler left to release it. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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The SDD described garbage collection keyed on a last-referenced annotation and said nothing about the binding this change installs, so a reviewer had no design to read alongside the CRD. Adds a section on what a ModelCacheBinding records, which rules the API server enforces, and why it is an API object rather than annotations: lifetime independent of any request, identity per referrer, enforcement at the API server, and one object to read. Notes what the operator installs and why uninstall stops rather than continues when finalizer stripping fails. The garbage collection section keeps the current behavior and adds the binding-based idle rule, marked as not wired on main yet. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Define race-safe retirement before implementing the controller. If a request reference appears after the zero-reference check, the controller can delete resources still in use. Specify the fencing or atomic recheck rule, define whether the request must use a new binding, and add a concurrent reference-add test.
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In `@docs/dev/sdd-central-model-cache-service.md` around lines 172 - 176, Update
the retirement semantics in the model-cache controller design to define a
race-safe fence or atomic recheck between zero-reference validation and resource
deletion, including whether newly added requests must use a new binding. Add a
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This reverts commit 4a7d2ae. The model cache design now lives in one document on the catalog change, so this branch must not edit the file that change removes. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
Model cache state lives today in PVCs, PVs, Jobs and Leases that NVCA infers
ownership of by name and label. That is enough to create a cache, but not
enough to answer, later and from a cold start, the questions that make caching
safe to operate:
already gone?
Encoding that in names does not survive a retry, an agent restart, or a config
change. Adding it to
StorageRequestwould overload a type several workflowsalready share, and would couple cache lifetime to request lifetime, which is
exactly the coupling caching exists to break.
What changed
A new namespaced CRD,
ModelCacheBinding(nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io/v2beta1),records one cache:
spec.identityspec.decisionspec.storageClassspec.resourcesstatus.requestReferencesThe schema is strict where correctness depends on it rather than uniformly:
resource name lists are
listType: set,requestReferencesislistType: mapso concurrent writers merge instead of clobbering, the reclaim policy is pinned
to
Retain, and CEL validations stop a retiring binding being revived and pinthe provider data identity.
Also in this PR:
StorageRequestandMiniServicemodelcachebindingsbecause the agent may already be stopped and no reconciler is left to do it
No controller reconciles bindings yet and nothing creates one. This PR is the
type and its installation only.
Customer Release Notes
Not customer visible. The CRD is installed but unused; no behavior changes.
Plan Summary
Adds one CustomResourceDefinition installed by the operator. Two ClusterRoles
gain
modelcachebindingsandmodelcachebindings/status. The source chartunder
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/deployments/nvca-operator/and thevendored chart under
deploy/helm/nvca-operator/are updated identically.Usage
Not applicable. Nothing creates a binding in this release.
Testing
go test ./pkg/... ./internal/...passes, including a new envtest(
TestModelCacheBindingCRDEnforcement) that posts real objects and assertsthe API server enforces the CEL rules, the list types and the immutable
fields, rather than only asserting the YAML parses
golangci-lint run ./pkg/operator/... ./pkg/apis/...cleanTest_setupNVCARBAC,Test_setupNVCARBAC_ValidationPolicyand
Test_NVLinkOptimizedupdated for the new resourcesQA not needed: nothing exercises the CRD yet.
Notes
Split out of the storage-aware model cache runtime so the CRD can roll out
ahead of the controller that uses it. An operator upgrade installs the CRD; a
later agent release starts writing bindings.
References
None.
Related Pull Requests
Depends on nothing. Unblocks the storage-aware cache runtime.
Dependencies
None.
Issues
Relates to #1326
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