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Ready — exact current-head A30 validation passed.

Description

NVBug 6566765 and the related parameter in 6575012 hit CUDA OOM when Qwen modeling tests ran serially on a 24 GB A30. The process retained 19.43 GiB allocated plus 2.22 GiB reserved before a 1.02 GiB model allocation.

The root cause is Python-cycle and CUDA-cache retention between parameterized Qwen modeling cases in the shared A30 process. This change collects Python cycles and empties unused CUDA cache before the Qwen MoE class and after every case, then removes the three exact waivers. It does not reduce model size, memory limits, concurrency, or requested resources.

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  • Current head c6ce7585cd passed exact A30-PyTorch-2 in PR_Github/66188 / pipeline 53860. The three formerly waived Qwen-MoE cases are reported FIXED; the selector wrapper and all runnable Qwen-MoE cases pass.
  • The aggregate's only reported regression is unrelated DGX_B200-PyTorch-5 performance sanity for v3lite_fp8; fail-fast aborted other unrelated stages. The requested A30 stage and SBSA pipeline are green.
  • Repository pre-commit, DCO, title, checklist, compatibility-label, formatting, syntax, whitespace, and a current-upstream/main merge-tree check pass.

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  • Repository checklist reviewed as appropriate.
  • Exact current-head A30 coverage passes without weakening resource or correctness requirements.
  • The remaining aggregate failure is isolated to an unrelated DGX B200 performance regression.

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  • Added Python garbage collection and CUDA cache cleanup around Qwen MoE tests.
  • Added defensive cleanup for cache managers, CUDA graph runners, model references, and CUDA memory.
  • Removed three Qwen MoE waiver entries from tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt.
  • The changes do not modify model size, memory limits, concurrency, or requested resources.
  • The reported A30 validation passed. An unrelated DGX B200 performance regression remains.

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  • Modified test_qwen_moe_sanity and test_qwen_moe_allclose_to_hf.
  • Added TestQwenMoe.setUpClass() and TestQwenMoe.tearDown().
  • The modified tests are covered by the corresponding waiver-list entries that were removed.
  • No test-db/ or qa/ files were modified.
  • The formerly waived TRTLLM and vanilla-backend cases passed validation.
  • Verdict: sufficient.

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Walkthrough

Qwen MoE tests now clean up CUDA and model resources after execution. Three integration-test skip waivers are removed for TRTLLM and vanilla backend variants.

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Qwen MoE test enablement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Qwen MoE resource cleanup
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py
Adds license headers and gc. Adds suite and per-test cleanup. Both tests release cache managers, model references, CUDA graph runners, and CUDA memory in finally blocks.
Qwen MoE waiver removal
tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
Removes skip waivers for three TRTLLM and vanilla Qwen MoE test variants.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 700fa

This change releases retained CUDA memory between Qwen MoE tests and removes the corresponding waivers; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: qijune

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tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py (1)

74-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add -> None annotations to the changed lifecycle methods.

_release_cuda_memory, setUpClass, and tearDown are new or modified functions without return annotations. Add -> None to each method.

As per coding guidelines: “Annotate every function.”

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-    def _release_cuda_memory():
+    def _release_cuda_memory() -> None:
...
-    def setUpClass(cls):
+    def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
...
-    def tearDown(self):
+    def tearDown(self) -> None:

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

The mechanism is right (unconditional gc.collect() + empty_cache() beats the conditional one in tests/unittest/conftest.py:121, which only fires once the card is already at 90%), but scoping it to TestQwenMoe fixes one symptom of a process-wide problem: the A30 stage runs unittest/_torch/modeling -k "modeling_qwen" serially in a single process, and every other class in that process still relies on the 90% threshold. Whichever class happens to sit at the peak next gets the same OOM and the same waiver, and then the same 15-line patch. Consider instead making the conftest hook unconditional (or dropping the threshold well below 0.9) so all of tests/unittest/ benefits — the cost is one empty_cache() per test, which is small next to model construction, and it removes the need for per-class boilerplate.

If you keep the class-local version, the failure path is the one that matters most (see inline).

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tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py (1)

130-137: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Duplicated dead statement in both Qwen MoE tests. Both tests contain a copy-pasted bare qwen_moe.config.num_attention_heads expression that evaluates an attribute and discards the result. Ruff reports it as B018 in each location.

  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py#L130-L137: delete line 134.
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py`:
- Around line 130-137: Remove the unused bare
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tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py (1)

135-135: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Duplicated no-op statement in both tests. qwen_moe.config.num_attention_heads is read as a bare expression and discarded. The value is already used to compute head_dim.

  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py#L135-L135: delete the bare expression line.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py#L256-L256: delete the bare expression line.
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py`:
- Around line 391-397: Update both finally blocks in
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py:391-397 and
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py:205-209 to delete all
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Apply the same fix in `@tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen_moe.py`
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A failing assertion keeps the test frame alive through pytest's retained
traceback, so the finally blocks freed only part of the frame: attn_metadata,
logits, ref, inputs, the weight mapper, and the input tensors still pinned
CUDA memory when _release_cuda_memory() ran, and tearDown could no longer
reach them. Pre-initialize those locals and delete them in both cleanup
paths so a failed Qwen MoE case cannot carry GPU memory into the next one.

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