fix(runtime): resolve pinned device selectors and honor CLI --device at serve startup - #1414
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStartup model creation now resolves GPU selectors from CLI values, model-specific configuration, or hardware defaults. GPU preflight validates selected devices. Device overrides propagate through local and split runtime launch paths. Byte decoding uses fixed-size slice chunks. Tests cover matching, precedence, fallback behavior, and diagnostics. ChangesStartup GPU resolution
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change makes explicit device selections override persisted pins and rejects unavailable devices before startup, improving reliable model launches; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI startup options
participant startup model construction
participant GPU preflight
participant local runtime
participant split generation loader
CLI startup options->>startup model construction: provide --device selector
startup model construction->>GPU preflight: pass effective selector
GPU preflight-->>startup model construction: return resolved device or diagnostic
startup model construction->>local runtime: pass device_override
local runtime->>split generation loader: load runtime with device_override
split generation loader-->>local runtime: apply override after pinned GPU selection
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/startup_models.rs`:
- Around line 1102-1113: The outer startup preflight currently exits for Auto
GPU assignment, preventing CLI device selectors from being resolved. Update
preflight_config_owned_startup_models to return early only when assignment is
not Pinned and every startup plan has no gpu_id; otherwise continue into the
plan loop. Add a regression test through the outer preflight entry point, rather
than only testing the inner helper, covering an Auto assignment with a CLI
--device selector.
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Needs revision. The production startup wrapper still bypasses the new Auto-assignment behavior.
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--gguf <path> --model <alias>branch looks up the persisted pin by path even though normal config rows are keyed by alias/ref. Please cover that path too. - Add a regression test through
preflight_config_owned_startup_models, not only the inner GPU helper.
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🤖 Hint on the Linux smoke failures (posted by Mic's agent): All three smoke suites fail the same way — the eager startup model dies in the new preflight: Root cause: the CI smoke scripts launch with an explicit Suggested fix:
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Summary from agent review (Jian Yang) — details inline.
One blocking issue: --device CPU is now treated as an unresolvable GPU selector, which breaks serve on every CPU-only host and has already reddened all three Linux product-smoke lanes at this head (run 32918059417). Root cause and suggested fix inline at effective_startup_gpu_id.
Everything else here is strong: the resolver-mirroring is verified against ResolverContext::new and resolve_hardware_config, the defaults-inheritance fix is real, and the test matrix (CLI override, auto assignment, alias/path/defaults lookups, fail-closed pinned) is exactly the shape I'd want. After the CPU regression is fixed this looks mergeable.
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Review: still blocked, unchanged from the prior review. The device-selector resolution design here (CLI-device-wins precedence, stable-id + bare-backend-name two-step resolution mirroring gpus tune, relaxed preflight reachability from production) is the more complete of the two designs in flight, but:
- 5 checks red at the current head (all three Linux product-smoke lanes, Linux CI, PR/Linux) from the known
--device CPUpreflight bug: a CPU selector passes the non-auto filter, becomes agpu_id, then can't resolve against the GPU-only inventory (resolve_pinned_gpu_strict→NonPinnableConfiguredId/NoPinnableGpus). - The branch is 3 days stale and now overlaps #1467 (merged-pending), which rewired the same
build_startup_model_specs/preflight functions with a different structure.
Recommendation: rebase this PR's --device handling and bare-backend-name fallback onto #1467 once it lands, and add a --device CPU → CPU backend resolution (or explicit rejection with an actionable message) to close the red lanes. The pinned-preflight half of this PR is otherwise subsumed by #1467's exact-match + defaults-inheritance work.
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Owner direction (James, 2026-08-28): approved with the standing comments remaining subject to major changes — the substantive findings (5 red lanes from the --device CPU preflight bug; overlap with #1467 requiring a rebase of the --device handling) still need addressing at merge. Approving per direction; recommend not merging until the red lanes are green and the #1467 rebase is done.
(prior review, still stands) — 5 checks red at head (all three Linux product-smoke lanes, Linux CI, PR/Linux): --device CPU passes the non-auto filter, becomes a gpu_id, then fails GPU-only resolution. Branch 3 days stale and now conflicts with #1467, which rewired the same build_startup_model_specs/preflight functions. The pinned-preflight half is subsumed by #1467's exact-match + defaults-inheritance work; rebase the --device handling and bare-backend-name fallback onto #1467 and add CPU resolution or an actionable rejection.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/local.rs`:
- Around line 350-352: Guard both native-load assignments of the pinned GPU
device so they execute only when spec.device_override.is_none(). Update the
native load paths near the pinned_gpu handling, including the layer-package
assignment, while preserving explicit device_override values such as CPU.
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…at serve startup `mesh-llm serve --model <ref>` never looked up the persisted `hardware.device` pin for that ref: `build_startup_model_specs` always set `gpu_id: None`/`config_owned: false` for CLI-explicit models, which caused `preflight_config_owned_startup_models` to skip GPU-pin resolution entirely (it only ran for config-owned specs under `gpu.assignment = "pinned"`). The unresolved raw device string (persisted separately via `resolve_hardware_config`, which does look the model up by ref) then flowed straight into `SkippyDeviceDescriptor.backend_device` and on into `RuntimeConfig.selected_backend_device`, so a PCI stable-id pin such as `pci:00000000:01:00.0` reached the native runtime unresolved and failed with `InvalidArgument: unknown selected backend device: pci:...`. Separately, `RuntimeOptions.device` (CLI `--device`) was never read by any device-selection code path, so it could not override a stale or incompatible persisted pin. Fix, upstream of the Skippy ABI and `runtime_config_from_stage_config`: - `build_startup_model_specs` now looks up the matching `config.models` entry (by exact ref) for CLI-explicit `--model`/`--gguf` launches, and applies a single CLI-device-wins-else-persisted precedence rule (`effective_startup_gpu_id`) everywhere a startup model's `gpu_id` is set, including the existing config-owned path. - `preflight_config_owned_startup_models[_with_gpus]` no longer skips CLI-explicit models or gates entirely on `gpu.assignment = "pinned"`; it now resolves any spec that actually has a device to resolve (a CLI override or a persisted pin), while still failing closed exactly as before when a config-owned model requires a device under `gpu.assignment = "pinned"` and has none. - Resolution itself (`resolve_requested_startup_device`) mirrors the two-step shape `mesh-llm gpus tune` already uses (`resolve_pinned_with_backend_fallback` in `mesh-llm-commands/src/gpus/tune_hardware/evaluate.rs`, left unmodified): a stable-id selector resolves via `resolve_pinned_gpu_strict` against the live `GpuFacts` inventory, and a bare backend name (e.g. a CLI `--device CUDA0`) falls back to a direct `backend_device` match, so both forms resolve to a valid native device name before reaching Skippy. An unresolvable request now produces a clear error naming the requested device and the available ones instead of the raw native ABI error. TDD: added failing-first tests reproducing the reported startup failure (a CLI-explicit model matching a persisted PCI-stable-id pin) and the CLI-override requirement, plus coverage for auto-assignment CLI overrides, unresolvable devices, and `--device auto` being a no-op. All pre-existing tests continue to pass unmodified, including `pinned_gpu_config_accepts_defaults_hardware_device_for_models` and the `gpus tune` / `skippy_devices` suites this mirrors. Verified: cargo fmt --all --check; cargo check/clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime and -p mesh-llm (--all-targets -D warnings); full `cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --lib` (2543 passed); the `mesh-llm-commands` gpus::tune_hardware and `mesh-llm-system` hardware::skippy_devices suites.
Review follow-ups on the pinned-device startup fix. - `preflight_config_owned_startup_models` returned early for every non-pinned `gpu.assignment`, so the relaxed inner resolver was unreachable in production: a default "auto" host launched with `--device` never resolved the selector. The outer guard now only skips the hardware survey when there is genuinely nothing to resolve — not pinned *and* no startup plan carries a device. - `--gguf <path> --model <alias>` looked its persisted pin up by GGUF path while config rows are keyed by alias, and a bare `--gguf <path>` could not match a row keyed by alias at all. The lookup now mirrors `ResolverContext::new`: declared ref, then model ref, then any row whose `hardware.model_path` names the same file. - A config pinned only through `[defaults.hardware] device` — a shape validation explicitly accepts under `gpu.assignment = "pinned"`, with every `models[].gpu_id` left unset — failed startup preflight closed on a missing `gpu_id`. The persisted lookup now inherits the defaults device the same way `resolve_hardware_config` does. Tests go through `preflight_config_owned_startup_models` rather than the inner GPU helper, and pin the alias, model-path, and defaults-inheritance lookups. The three behavior tests fail against the previous commit.
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Problem
mesh-llm serve --model '<ref>'on a host with a persisted per-modelhardware.devicePCI stable-id pin (e.g.pci:00000000:01:00.0, written bythe hardware-pinning flow under
gpu.assignment = "pinned") fails nativemodel load with:
An explicit
--device CUDA0on the CLI did not fix it — the only workingworkaround was bypassing the persisted config entirely
(
--config /dev/null --device CUDA0).Root cause
Two independent gaps:
build_startup_model_specsalways built CLI-explicit--model/--ggufspecs with
gpu_id: None/config_owned: false. That causedpreflight_config_owned_startup_models— the one place that resolves astable-id device against the live
GpuFactsinventory — to skip thesespecs entirely (it only ran for config-owned specs, and only under
gpu.assignment = "pinned"). Meanwhile, the model's raw persistedhardware.devicestring was still picked up separately byresolve_hardware_config(which looks up the model by ref regardless ofhow it was launched) and passed unresolved into
SkippyDeviceDescriptor.backend_device→RuntimeConfig.selected_backend_device.RuntimeOptions.device(CLI--device) was never read by anydevice-selection code path, so it had no way to override a stale or
incompatible persisted pin.
Fix
Upstream of the Skippy ABI and
runtime_config_from_stage_config(both leftuntouched):
build_startup_model_specsnow looks up the matchingconfig.modelsentry (exact ref match) for CLI-explicit launches, and applies a single
CLI-device-wins-else-persisted precedence rule everywhere a startup
model's
gpu_idis set.preflight_config_owned_startup_models[_with_gpus]resolves any spec thatactually has a device to resolve (CLI override or persisted pin),
regardless of
config_owned/gpu.assignment, while still failing closedexactly as before when a config-owned model requires a device under
gpu.assignment = "pinned"and has none.mesh-llm gpus tunealready uses(
resolve_pinned_with_backend_fallbackinmesh-llm-commands/src/gpus/tune_hardware/evaluate.rs, left unmodified):stable-id selectors resolve via
resolve_pinned_gpu_strict; bare backendnames (e.g.
--device CUDA0) fall back to a directbackend_devicematch. An unresolvable device now produces a clear error naming the
request and the available devices instead of the raw native ABI error.
preflight_config_owned_startup_models(the production wrapper) no longerreturns early for every non-pinned
gpu.assignment, which had left therelaxed inner resolver unreachable in production: a default
autohostlaunched with
--devicenever resolved the selector. It now skips thehardware survey only when there is genuinely nothing to resolve — not
pinned and no startup plan carries a device.
ResolverContext::new(
inference/skippy/resolver/resolution.rs), which is what actually pickshardware.deviceup downstream: declared ref (the--gguf <path> --model <alias>alias), then model ref, then any row whosehardware.model_pathnames the same file. Previously the alias branch looked its pin up by GGUF
path while config rows are keyed by alias, and a bare
--gguf <path>could not match an alias-keyed row at all.
[defaults.hardware] device— a shapevalidation explicitly accepts under
gpu.assignment = "pinned", leavingevery
models[].gpu_idunset — failed startup preflight closed on amissing
gpu_id. The persisted lookup now inherits the defaults devicethe same way
resolve_hardware_configdoes. This was a pre-existingdefect, not a regression from this PR, but it is the same failure mode
and sits in the code this PR rewrites.
Testing
TDD, failing-first: added tests reproducing the reported failure (CLI
--modelmatching a persisted PCI-stable-id pin) and the CLI-overriderequirement, plus coverage for auto-assignment CLI overrides, unresolvable
devices, and
--device autoas a no-op.Review follow-ups are covered through
preflight_config_owned_startup_models— the production wrapper — rather than the inner GPU helper, so the outer
guard is exercised:
--deviceunder auto assignment must reach the resolverand fail on an impossible selector, and a launch with no selector at all must
stay inert. Alias,
hardware.model_path, and defaults-inheritance lookups arepinned too. All three behavior tests fail against the previous commit and pass
after it.
cargo fmt --all --checkcargo check -p mesh-llm-host-runtime/-p mesh-llmcargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --all-targets -- -D warnings/ same for-p mesh-llmcargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --lib— 2543 passed, 0 failedcargo test -p mesh-llm-commands --lib gpus::tune_hardware— unchanged, 10 passedcargo test -p mesh-llm-system --lib --features skippy-devices hardware::skippy_devices— unchanged, 4 passedpinned_gpu_config_accepts_defaults_hardware_device_for_models(plugin/config.rs) — unchanged, passesOut of scope
crates/mesh-llm-config/src/model.rs::merge_hardware(the top-level legacygpu_id⇄hardware.deviceconfig-file shim) was investigated and isunrelated to CLI-vs-config precedence — left untouched, no behavior change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
--device, including stable device IDs and backend names.autoselection and preserves explicit CPU selection.Bug Fixes