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What does this PR do?

Type of change: CI (test runtime)

Tests marked release collect only when pytest gets --run-release, and no workflow passes it, so a test marked release never runs in CI. This sets PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--run-release in the "Run gpu tests" step for every run that is not a pull-request run (the nightly schedule and manual dispatches), which lets slow or network-heavy checks leave the pull-request jobs without leaving CI. Pull-request runs are unchanged by the flag itself. The expression is !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/pull-request/') && '--run-release' || ''. The release example suites (hf_ptq/test_deploy.py, gpt-oss QAT) belong to example_tests.yml, which does not get the flag, so the docs sentence that said no workflow passes it now says no example workflow does.

Two tests use it:

  • test_megatron_generate_and_mmlu[tp] builds a 28-layer Qwen3-0.6B Megatron model, downloads 1.2-1.5 GB of real weights into a fresh container cache and scores about 1,400 MMLU prompts: a 21-39 s call in every PR gpu_megatron job (21 s with the sysmon core of [OMNIML-6178] [2/11] Use the sysmon coverage core in CI #2846, 39 s without it), and the only test in the lane that downloads real weights.
  • test_get_dataset_dataloader_nemotron_v3_chat_template streams the seven gated Nemotron post-training v3 datasets from the Hub (a 17-24 s call that needs an HF token and the network, and a source of Hub flakes). The combo expansion and sample distribution it goes through are covered by CPU unit tests that record the per-dataset calls.

Trade-off: these two checks no longer run on pull requests. The real-weight accuracy check (0.36 < MMLU < 0.39) and the gated-data smoke test run every night and on demand, a day after a change instead of on the PR.

Time improvement (measured in CI)

Time of the module that holds the skipped test, from the per-test timestamps; before = the run of #2846, after = this PR's run and the runs above it that carry the change (median):

lane skipped test (call time before) module before module after change
gpu_megatron test_megatron_generate_and_mmlu[tp] (21 s) 64 s 41 s (39 s in this PR's run) -22 s (-35% after speed scaling)
gpu test_get_dataset_dataloader_nemotron_v3_chat_template (17 s) 32 s 13.5 s (13 s in this PR's run) -19 s (-62%)

So 22 s off the gpu_megatron job and 19 s off the gpu job of every PR run. The lane totals cannot show a change this small (gpu_megatron 1,212 -> 1,206 s, gpu 1,289 -> 1,351 s: their run-to-run spread is several times larger). The price is that the two checks run only on the nightly and on demand.

Method: every PR of the series has its own CI run, so "before" is the run of the PR(s) below that lack the change and "after" the runs that carry it. Times come from the job logs (--durations, or the gap between consecutive result lines). Where runner speed matters, the tests that no PR of the series touches scale each run, and the raw and the scaled medians are both shown. One test varies by 15-30% from run to run on its own, so smaller differences are not evidence.

Usage

pytest --run-release runs the release-marked tests locally.

Testing

A stub test marked release, collected under the repo's tests/conftest.py, is skipped with "Only run when --run-release is given" when PYTEST_ADDOPTS is empty and runs with --run-release; the expression gives '' for a pull-request ref and --run-release otherwise. Pre-commit and actionlint pass. Not run on a GPU here: the two tests themselves, and the flag on a nightly (this PR's GPU run shows both skipped on a pull request; a nightly, where they run, is what verifies the flag end to end).

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Slice 3 of 11 of the GPU-CI speed-up work, split out of the reference draft #2730 (not for merge; it holds the whole series with its measurements). Merge in order; each PR stands on its own and passes CI without the later ones.

  1. [OMNIML-6178] [1/11] Run the unit tests in parallel with pytest-xdist #2845 [OMNIML-6178] [1/11] Run the unit tests in parallel with pytest-xdist
  2. [OMNIML-6178] [2/11] Use the sysmon coverage core in CI #2846 [OMNIML-6178] [2/11] Use the sysmon coverage core in CI
  3. [OMNIML-6179] [3/11] Run release-marked tests on nightly and on-demand GPU runs #2847 [OMNIML-6179] [3/11] Run release-marked tests on nightly and on-demand GPU runs (this PR)
  4. [OMNIML-6181] [4/11] Give gpu_megatron's slow cold starts more time #2848 [OMNIML-6181] [4/11] Give gpu_megatron's slow cold starts more time
  5. [OMNIML-6179] [5/11] Make the ONNX tests cheaper: CPU-only ones to the unit lane, small models #2849 [OMNIML-6179] [5/11] Make the ONNX tests cheaper: CPU-only ones to the unit lane, small models
  6. [OMNIML-6179] [6/11] Use local tokenizers and calibration text in GPU tests, shrink puzzletron data #2850 [OMNIML-6179] [6/11] Use local tokenizers and calibration text in GPU tests, shrink puzzletron data
  7. [OMNIML-6180] [7/11] Trim the llm_eval, llm_qat, EAGLE and megatron_bridge example tests #2851 [OMNIML-6180] [7/11] Trim the llm_eval, llm_qat, EAGLE and megatron_bridge example tests
  8. [OMNIML-6180] [8/11] Trim the DFlash regression test #2852 [OMNIML-6180] [8/11] Trim the DFlash regression test
  9. [OMNIML-6180] [9/11] Trim the torch_onnx example lane #2853 [OMNIML-6180] [9/11] Trim the torch_onnx example lane
  10. [OMNIML-6181] [10/11] Make the distributed worker pool fail fast when a worker dies #2854 [OMNIML-6181] [10/11] Make the distributed worker pool fail fast when a worker dies
  11. [OMNIML-6181] [11/11] Share one Megatron worker pool across the gpu_megatron modules #2855 [OMNIML-6181] [11/11] Share one Megatron worker pool across the gpu_megatron modules

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The GPU workflow enables release-marked tests on non-pull-request branches. Two GPU tests now have release markers. The documentation narrows its statement about which example workflows pass --run-release.

Changes: GPU Release Tests

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Mark and run release tests
.github/workflows/gpu_tests.yml, tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_dataset_utils.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_utils_megatron.py, docs/source/deployment/3_unified_hf.rst
Two GPU tests are marked for release runs. The workflow sets PYTEST_ADDOPTS to --run-release on non-pull-request branches and an empty value on pull-request branches. The documentation narrows its caveat to example workflows in .github/workflows/.

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Select release tests by event type.

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assert 0.36 < megatron_mmlu(model, tokenizer, fraction=0.1, batch_size=16) < 0.39


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Mark only the tp parameter as release.

The non-pull-request GPU job uses the two-GPU runner. The current guard skips pp, cp, and dp only for one-GPU runs, so release runs execute all four real-weight MMLU cases. Apply the release marker to tp only.

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--- "a/tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_utils_megatron.py"
+++ "b/tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_utils_megatron.py"
@@ -64,10 +64,20 @@
     assert 0.36 < megatron_mmlu(model, tokenizer, fraction=0.1, batch_size=16) < 0.39
 
 
-@pytest.mark.release(
-    reason="Real Qwen3-0.6B weights and a 1.2-1.5 GB download; run with --run-release."
-)
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("parallelism", ["tp", "pp", "cp", "dp"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "parallelism",
+    [
+        pytest.param(
+            "tp",
+            marks=pytest.mark.release(
+                reason="Real Qwen3-0.6B weights and a 1.2-1.5 GB download; run with --run-release."
+            ),
+        ),
+        "pp",
+        "cp",
+        "dp",
+    ],
+)
 def test_megatron_generate_and_mmlu(dist_workers, parallelism, num_gpus):
     if num_gpus == 1 and parallelism != "tp":
         pytest.skip("Skipping as redundant test on 1 GPU")
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Update the `parallelism` parameterization so only the `tp` case receives the
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# Tests marked `release` (real-weight downloads and the like) run on nightly and
# on-demand runs, not on pull requests.
PYTEST_ADDOPTS: ${{ !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/pull-request/') && '--run-release' || '' }}

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pytest.mark.release is used in some hf_ptq tests by QA team to run real large models in their QA test pipeline that take a long time to run.
We use pytest.mark.manual in unit tests to run them nightly or on-demand. Lets use the same marker in gpu/example tests

Tests marked `release` collect only when pytest gets --run-release, and no workflow
passes it, so a test marked `release` never runs in CI (the docs say the same of the
example release suite). Set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--run-release in the "Run gpu tests" step for
every run that is not a pull-request run: the nightly schedule and manual dispatches.
That lets slow or network-heavy checks leave the pull-request jobs without leaving CI.
Pull-request runs are unchanged. Nothing under tests/gpu* is marked release yet; the
next commit marks the first test.

The release example suites (hf_ptq/test_deploy.py, gpt-oss QAT) belong to
example_tests.yml, which does not get the flag, so the docs sentence that said no
workflow passes it now says no example workflow does.

Testing: actionlint is clean. A stub test marked `release`, collected under the repo's
tests/conftest.py, is skipped with "Only run when --run-release is given" when
PYTEST_ADDOPTS is empty and runs when it is --run-release. The expression is
`!startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/pull-request/') && '--run-release' || ''`, which
gives '' for a pull-request ref and '--run-release' otherwise. Not run on GitHub.

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
test_megatron_generate_and_mmlu[tp] builds a 28-layer Qwen3-0.6B Megatron model,
downloads 1.2-1.5 GB of real weights into a fresh container cache and scores about
1,400 MMLU prompts: a 32 s call in every pull-request gpu_megatron job. It is the only
test in the lane that downloads real weights. Mark it `release` so pytest skips it
unless --run-release is given.

The importer shape and name tests and the generate control-flow tests in the same module
keep running on pull requests. This test is also the only one that checks real-weight
accuracy (0.36 < MMLU < 0.39), so a numeric regression in the import or generation path
is no longer caught on a pull request.

The previous commit passes --run-release on the nightly and on-demand runs, so the
real-weight accuracy check still runs there, a day after a change instead of on the
pull request.

Testing: ruff check and ruff format with the pinned ruff 0.15.20, and py_compile. Ran a
stub module with the same decorators under the repo's tests/conftest.py on CPU: without
the flag the four parametrized ids are skipped with "Only run when --run-release is
given", with it they all run. Not run: the test itself, because this machine has no GPU
and its Megatron is too old to import the module, and the flag on GitHub (the previous
commit checked it with a stub test only).

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
test_get_dataset_dataloader_nemotron_v3_chat_template streams the seven gated Nemotron
post-training v3 datasets from the Hub and applies a chat template: a 24 s call in the PR
run (run 37703177445) that needs an HF token and the network, which also makes it a
source of Hub flakes. It checks the live gated data, not modelopt logic: the combo
expansion and sample distribution of get_dataset_dataloader are covered by the CPU unit
tests in tests/unit/torch/utils/test_dataset_utils.py, which record the per-dataset calls
instead of fetching.

Mark it `release`. The nightly and on-demand gpu runs pass --run-release, so it still
runs there every day, and it is skipped on pull requests.

Testing: ruff check and format with the pinned ruff 0.15.20. Without the flag the test
is skipped with "Only run when --run-release is given". Not run: the test itself or the
nightly. Expected saving is about 24 s per pull-request gpu job.

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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shengliangxu force-pushed the shengliangx/ci-3-release-tests branch from 0eaa9a4 to e1d6a4d Compare October 19, 2026 21:34

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