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Follow-up to #20749 (merged as b833b7c). It makes the two changes @brnguyen2 asked for in review: report the body of retryable failures and drop the duplicate test-list entry.

  • Retryable HTTP failures now report the server's reason.
    • Since [https://nvbugs/6958731][chore] Report benchmark readiness request rejections #20749, a permanent 4xx fails at once with HTTP <code>: <body>. A 5xx, 408 or 429 still dropped its body: post_one_token returned None, so an endpoint that answered 503 for the whole readiness budget still ended in Last response: None.
    • post_one_token now returns HTTP <code>: <first 2 KB of the body> for every HTTP error it does not raise. The not serving yet log line and the timeout message both show that reason.
    • A body that cannot be read still produces a description, so the best-effort heartbeat never raises. Transport failures still return None.
  • The endpoint counts as ready only on a real completion. An error description now comes back as text, and that text includes the server's body, which can name the choices field (for example, a validation error). The old readiness check was a substring match on '"choices"', so it could mistake such an error for a completion. verify_endpoint now accepts a response only if it parses as a JSON object with a choices key.
  • The duplicate l0_cpu.yml entry is gone. The unittest/scripts directory entry already collects test_perf_client_readiness.py. With the explicit line as well, the file ran twice in each CPU stage. In L0_MergeRequest_PR #65774, both copies ran on CPU-Generic-x86-1 and on CPU-Generic-arm-1.

nvbugs/6958731 stays open. Like #20749, this PR improves the diagnosis but does not fix the MiniMax-M3 HTTP 400.

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The tests are in tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py. The file runs in l0_cpu through the unittest/scripts entry.

  • New test_retryable_failure_reason_reaches_the_timeout_message: the stub always answers 503. The test replaces the client's time module with a fake clock whose sleep advances monotonic, so a 30 s budget with a 15 s interval allows exactly two requests. verify_endpoint raises with Last response: HTTP 503: not ready, and the test asserts the request count. The result does not depend on wall-clock time.
  • New test_error_body_naming_choices_is_not_a_completion: a 500 whose body names choices is retried, and so is a 200 whose JSON error body names choices. The 200 completion that follows ends the wait.
  • Changed test_heartbeat_request_remains_best_effort: on an HTTP 400, post_one_token now returns HTTP 400: invalid request instead of None, and it still does not raise.
  • The rejection, transient-retry, transport and bounded-body tests are unchanged.

Local runs used Python 3.11 and tests/unittest/pytest.ini, which enables pytest-threadleak. All 14 tests passed in each of 12 runs, with no leaked threads.

  • With main's agentx_client.py, the timeout-message test and the heartbeat test fail.
  • With the old substring check restored, the choices test fails.

ruff, ruff-format, codespell, scripts/check_test_list.py --validate and the DCO check pass.

Update (head 03ae103): merged current main, moved the timeout test onto the fake clock, and added the 200 error body to the choices test, as review asked. The only conflict was in l0_cpu.yml, where main had added unittest/others/test_http_utils_fail_fast.py next to the removed line; that line is kept. Against main, the change to agentx_client.py and l0_cpu.yml is the reviewed one, line for line. All 14 tests passed in each of 6 runs with pytest-threadleak. With the pre-PR agentx_client.py, the timeout-message and heartbeat tests still fail. The choices test fails both with the old substring check and with a variant that skips HTTP <code>: descriptions before substring-matching. ruff, ruff-format, codespell and scripts/check_test_list.py --validate pass.

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post_one_token now returns HTTP status and up to 2 KB of response text for HTTP errors. It closes the error response and returns a description when reading the body fails. Transport failures still return None. When fail_on_client_error is enabled, permanent 4xx errors still raise, except 408 and 429.

verify_endpoint now parses JSON and accepts a response only when it is an object with a top-level choices key. Retry timeout messages can include the last HTTP failure. This improves diagnosis but does not fix the reported MiniMax-M3 HTTP 400. The supplied objective reports failed CI runs; local test and lint results are author-reported and not independently verified. No current review findings or severity counts were supplied.

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tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py adds or updates coverage for permanent rejection reasons, retryable 408/429/500/503 responses, timeout details, error bodies that mention choices, best-effort heartbeat errors, transport failures, and bounded response bodies. The file has seven test functions, including parameterized cases. The readiness test remains included through the unittest/scripts entry in l0_cpu.yml; the separate test-file entry was removed. The supplied objective reports 14 passing tests in local runs and failed CI runs. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the described readiness behavior.

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  • tests/integration/defs/perf/agentx_client.py — Verify HTTP error descriptions, body-size limits, retry behavior, timeout messages, and JSON readiness parsing. Confirm transport failures and permanent client-error handling remain as configured.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Removes the separate readiness-test entry. The unittest/scripts directory entry remains, so the readiness test remains in the CPU CI list.
  • tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py — Covers readiness rejection, retry, timeout, response parsing, heartbeat, transport-failure, and response-size behavior. The test is included in the CPU CI list through the unittest/scripts directory entry; no manual-QA list entry was identified.

…ness failures

The AgentX readiness probe already fails fast with the server's reason on a
permanent 4xx. A 5xx, 408 or 429 response still dropped its body, so an
endpoint that kept returning 503 for the whole budget ended in "Last
response: None". post_one_token now returns "HTTP <code>: <first 2 KB of
the body>" for every HTTP error it does not raise. The "not serving yet" log
line and the timeout message therefore show the reason. A body that cannot be
read still yields a description, so the best-effort heartbeat never raises.

Because an error description is now returned as text, verify_endpoint
treats the server as ready only when the response parses as a JSON object
with a "choices" key. A substring match on '"choices"' could accept an
error body that merely names the field.

Drop the explicit l0_cpu.yml entry for test_perf_client_readiness.py. The
unittest/scripts directory entry already collects the file, so it ran
twice in each CPU stage.

New tests: a persistent 503 surfaces its reason in the timeout message,
and an error body naming "choices" is not taken as a completion. The
heartbeat test now expects the HTTP error description instead of None.

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The AgentX client now returns formatted HTTP error details and validates endpoint readiness using parsed JSON. Tests cover error reporting, retry behavior, and timeout messages.

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AgentX readiness handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
HTTP error details
tests/integration/defs/perf/agentx_client.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py
post_one_token returns HTTP status and response details for non-raising HTTP errors. Permanent 4xx errors still raise, except 408 and 429. The heartbeat test expects the formatted HTTP 400 message.
Readiness response validation
tests/integration/defs/perf/agentx_client.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml
verify_endpoint accepts a response only when it parses as a JSON dictionary containing choices. Tests cover timeout details and reject an error body that mentions choices. The readiness test is removed from the CPU-only test list.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20749: Introduced the post_one_token error policy and readiness retry behavior that this change extends.

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 03ae1

A slow error response can delay readiness retries, though the concern is bounded in scope. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness of that remaining risk.

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

The description matches the diff. The heartbeat caller ([agentx_client.py:286](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/20863/files#diff-7387acede0fb26a2cb4c5235bbd41179db9b39bf2e712157c32d6f9f9ed330abR286)) discards the return value, so changing None to an error string does not change its behavior. _is_completion is safe because the request pins "stream": False, so a successful body is always a single JSON object. I have one optional nit on the new timeout test, posted inline.

  • tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_client_readiness.py:96: Optional: the client fixture patches time.sleep to a no-op, so this test busy-loops against the stub for the full 1 s of wall time. That is one HTTP round-trip plus one not serving yet log line per iteration, so possibly thousands on a fast runner. To make it bounded and independent of the clock, you could patch client.time.monotonic with a counter that passes the deadline after a few calls (or set the timeout to 0 and seed one iteration). Then the test sends a fixed, small number of requests and can assert the exact count.

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time and only asserted that at least one request was sent. It now swaps
the client's time module for a fake clock whose sleep advances monotonic:
a 30 s budget with a 15 s interval allows exactly two requests, and the
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128-128: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test an unreadable HTTP error body.

This test covers a readable body only. If reading an error body starts raising instead of returning a description, the best-effort heartbeat can stop, but this test would still pass. Add a test with a response body whose read() raises OSError; assert that post_one_token returns an unreadable-body description and closes the response.

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The readiness test fed one 500 error body naming "choices" before the real
completion. A matcher that skips "HTTP <code>:" descriptions and then
substring-matches "choices" would still pass it. A 200 response whose JSON
error body names "choices" now precedes the completion as well, so only the
top-level "choices" key check passes.

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