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A cluster holding two board SKUs of the same GPU model registered two instance types under one published name, so a request for a single instance created one instance per duplicate. Dedup the GPU subdivision loop on the published name, and give the ordering that picks the surviving entry a deterministic tie-break.

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BackendGPU.toDynamicRegistration expands each node's instance type into _1x/_2x/_4x/… subdivisions. It deduped on FullName, the raw nvidia.com/gpu.product value, but named each entry from the normalized GPU name:

instIDStr := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%dx", it.FullName, i)  // NVIDIA-A100-SXM4-80GB-1x vs NVIDIA-A100-80GB-PCIe-1x
...
Name: baseIT.Name.WithMultiplier(subGPUCount),      // NCP.GPU.A100_1x for both

ParseGPUName normalizes both boards to A100, so both entries survived dedup and were published under the same name. A consuming service can only address an instance type by name, so duplicates are indistinguishable to it: a request naming one resolves to every match and is dispatched once per match.

Two commits:

  1. Dedup on the published name (it.Name.WithMultiplier(i)), which is what the multi-node branch in the same loop already did — the single-node path was the outlier.
  2. Deterministic ordering. The sort.Slice comparator used GPUCount >= GPUCount, true in both directions for equal counts, so it was not a strict ordering and the result depended on input arrangement. Latent before, because every entry was registered and a bad order only shuffled the list. Once a collision keeps only the first entry, the loser's resource profile is dropped — and nodes arrive in listing order, which is not stable, so the profile published for a name could change between reconciles. Replaced with instanceTypePrecedes: descending GPU count, then CPU, system memory, storage, per-GPU memory, with FullName as a final tie-break.

This is not limited to PCIe-vs-SXM. ParseGPUName also collapses capacity variants (A100 40GB alongside 80GB) and drops the -SHARED suffix, so clusters mixing time-sliced and exclusive nodes of one GPU hit the same collision.

Known limitation: the fix makes the choice of survivor deterministic; it does not make the losing node separately addressable. Two SKUs normalizing to one GPU name still collapse to a single instance type, derived from the larger machine because of the ordering. Distinguishing them requires the instance name itself to carry the SKU (e.g. NCP.GPU.A100-80GB_1x), which changes existing function targeting and needs coordination on the consuming side. Out of scope here, and called out in the comment above the sort.

Operator workaround for anyone hitting this before the fix ships — force both SKUs to one GPU name via the override label, which is used verbatim as both the GPU name and FullName, so the dedup keys collide:

kubectl label nodes -l nvidia.com/gpu.present=true nvca.nvcf.nvidia.io/gpu.product=A100 --overwrite

Keeps published names unchanged, keeps the cluster at one GPU type so the MultipleGPUTypesAllowed guard is not tripped, and needs no function re-targeting.

For the Reviewer

Closest look at toDynamicRegistration in src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types.go.

Worth knowing: TestToRegistration was asserting the bug. It expected two ON-PREM.GPU.A100_1x entries with different GPU memory — a mixed A100 40GB/80GB cluster hitting this exact collision, encoded as intended output. I corrected the expectation and left a comment saying why.

The open question is the limitation above: collapsing to the larger machine means the smaller node cannot be targeted for that name. That is a deliberate trade — registering both was never a working alternative, it is what caused the duplicate dispatch — but if the preference is to advertise the smaller, universally schedulable profile instead, say so and I will flip the tie-break.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed duplicate GPU instance entries caused by different board variants sharing the same normalized instance name.
    • Ensured full-capacity and subdivided GPU instances are registered consistently.
    • Preserved larger-node instances when duplicate names occur across shared or capacity variants.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming instance names are deduplicated correctly across GPU board variants.

A cluster holding two board SKUs of one GPU model (ex. NVIDIA-A100-SXM4-80GB
alongside NVIDIA-A100-80GB-PCIe) registered two instance types under the same
published name. The GPU subdivision loop deduped on the raw GPU product name,
which differs per board, while naming each entry from the normalized GPU name,
which does not.

Downstream services address an instance type only by name, so duplicates are
indistinguishable to them: a request naming one resolves to every match and is
dispatched once per match, creating an extra replica per duplicate.

Dedup the single-node expansion on the published name instead, which is what
the multi-node branch in the same loop already does. When two node SKUs
collide the larger node's entry wins, since the loop sorts by GPU count
descending; the smaller node is not separately addressable until instance
names can distinguish them.

This also covers capacity variants (A100 40GB alongside 80GB) and time-sliced
nodes, which normalize to the same GPU name as well. TestToRegistration
asserted the duplicate as expected output and has been corrected.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dynamic GPU registration deduplication now uses normalized published instance names and multipliers. Deterministic ordering selects consistent collision winners. Tests cover equivalent A100 board SKUs and input-order independence.

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GPU instance deduplication

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Normalize and order registrations
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types.go
Dynamic and full-capacity registrations use normalized names with multipliers. A strict comparator orders entries by resource capacity and FullName.
Validate collision handling
src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types_test.go
Updated duplicate expectations and added tests for unique names, larger-profile retention, and order-independent collision winners.

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This change prevents duplicate instance-type names from creating duplicate dispatches by deduplicating on the published name. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types.go`:
- Around line 444-455: Update the instance-type sorting comparator used before
deduplication to use a strict ordering and a deterministic tie-breaker when
GPUCount values are equal, so the same normalized name always selects the same
profile regardless of input order. Add a regression test covering equal GPUCount
entries with different CPU, memory, storage, and description values, and verify
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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types.go
The comparator returned true for equal GPU counts in both directions, which
is not a strict ordering, so equal-capacity entries came out in an order that
depended on how the input happened to be arranged. Reversing two 2-GPU nodes
swapped which one was published.

That was harmless while every entry was registered, but now that a name
collision keeps only the first entry, the losing side's resource profile is
dropped. Nodes arrive in listing order, which is not stable, so the profile
published for a name could change from one reconcile to the next.

Order by descending GPU count, then by the non-GPU resources, with FullName
as a final tie-break, so any two instance types are totally ordered and the
larger machine still wins.

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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types_test.go`:
- Around line 663-667: Update the profileOf helper around
BackendGPUs.ToRegistration to require exactly one surviving InstanceType in
got[0] before returning it, ensuring collision tests cannot pass when both
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Comment thread src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/types/resource_types_test.go
profileOf only checked the outer RegistrationGPU count, so if both colliding
entries were ever dropped the helper would return an empty slice, the equality
check would compare nothing against nothing, and the description loop would not
run. Assert the registered names instead, which pins the result to the two
subdivisions the two SKUs share and stops the test holding vacuously.

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