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#19432 added boltOptimizeWheel and set it on both BuildDockerImages launches, but it
cannot take effect, because optimizing the installed wheel is only possible on the
build-stage-wheel path and that path is unreachable. Two gates kill it, and neither has
anything to do with BOLT:

  • useWheelFromBuildStage is a kill switch added for nvbug 5433581 in Aug 2025 and never
    reverted. It was also read without ever being declared as a parameter of this job, so
    params.useWheelFromBuildStage was always null: not merely false, but incapable of being
    true.
  • triggerType is read from env and is likewise not a declared parameter, so whether it
    survives the launch is a property of Jenkins job registration rather than of this repo.
    When it does not, TRIGGER_TYPE is "manual" and the function returns early no matter
    what the caller asked for.

This declares useWheelFromBuildStage so the flag is at least capable of being set, and lets
a BOLT request carry itself past both gates. The bypass is keyed on boltOptimizeWheel,
which is declared and therefore reliably arrives, and is narrowed to one arch and one
dockerfile stage:

def boltWheelRequired = BOLT_OPTIMIZE_WHEEL && arch == "sbsa" && dockerfileStage == "release"

So the nvbug's blast radius stays at the SBSA release image instead of being reopened for
every image this job builds. useWheelFromBuildStage itself stays false by default and
nothing turns it on. When the bypass fires it says so in the log, since this is the one place
the image build departs from what its parameters literally asked for.

This is the PR that makes the optimized release image wheel live. Everything before it is
inert.

Rollback

Set boltOptimizeWheel to false at the two BuildDockerImages launches in
L0_MergeRequest.groovy, or set the job parameter to false. Nothing else has to change: the
canonical tarball is untouched, so the image falls straight back to compiling its own wheel.

Before merging

Confirm nvbug 5433581 is resolved. The bypass is deliberately narrow, but it does route
around that bug's kill switch for the SBSA release image.

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No automated tests, this is CI infrastructure.

On a post-merge or nightly-release run, the make ngc-release_push (sbsa) stage should log
[BOLT] boltOptimizeWheel is set for the sbsa release image, so the build-stage wheel path runs even though useWheelFromBuildStage=false, then
Applying BOLT profiles from main/aarch64-linux-gnu to tensorrt_llm-*.whl, then
BOLT optimized tensorrt_llm-*.whl (main/aarch64-linux-gnu). x86_64 is unaffected and still
compiles its wheel in-container.

The failure mode to watch on the first run is a missing bundle: get_wheel_from_package.py
raises rather than installing an unoptimized wheel, and the from-source retry is disabled for
this path, so the image build fails loudly instead of silently shipping an unoptimized
release image. That is intended, and it is the reason for the rollback note above.

The diff against main still includes #19432's content because the two are stacked and both
target main. It collapses to the prepareWheelFromBuildStage change once #19432 merges.

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  • Adds disabled-by-default boltOptimizeWheel support for optimized SBSA wheels.
  • Applies promoted BOLT profiles through ordered branch fallback.
  • Fails when no usable profile exists and disables source fallback when optimization is required.
  • Preserves x86_64 behavior.
  • Adds standalone wheel processing with cleanup on failure.
  • Centralizes LLVM_BOLT_VERSION resolution and adds reusable BOLT staging.
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Per-File QA Perspective

  • jenkins/BuildDockerImage.groovy: Verify SBSA scope, default behavior, artifact waiting, branch order, and failure handling.
  • scripts/get_wheel_from_package.py: Verify fixed-name downloads, profile fallback, wheel replacement, and missing-profile errors.
  • jenkins/BoltProfileGen.groovy, jenkins/Build.groovy: Verify shared runtime LLVM BOLT version resolution.
  • jenkins/L0_Test.groovy: Verify aarch64-only BOLT consumption, fallback behavior, and upload flow.
  • scripts/bolt/apply_bolt.py: Verify standalone wheel output isolation, cleanup, and error handling.
  • scripts/bolt/internal/apply_latest.sh: Verify wheel and tarball validation and staging errors.
  • scripts/bolt/internal/llvm_bolt_version.sh: Verify the default version and environment override.
  • scripts/bolt/internal/perf_instrument_hook.sh: Verify shared version sourcing.
  • scripts/bolt/internal/slurm_merge.sh: Verify version sourcing from TOOLKIT_HOST.
  • scripts/bolt/internal/stage_llvm_bolt.sh: Verify PATH reuse, architecture handling, mirror downloads, atomic staging, and failure handling.

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The released SBSA manylinux wheel is not optimized today. L0_Test.groovy's
runLLMBuild() compiles it separately from the packed tarball and uploads it
straight to <arch>/, and ENABLE_BOLT_COMPATIBLE=ON only makes those binaries
BOLT-able -- it does not apply the optimization. The tarball gets BOLTed
elsewhere (Build.groovy pre-merge, BoltProfileGen post-merge), so the wheel was
the one release artifact with no path to it at all.

apply_bolt.py already knew how to BOLT a wheel and regenerate its RECORD; that
code was only reachable for wheels packed inside a release tarball. Add a
--wheel mode that reuses process_wheel() on a standalone .whl, and teach
apply_latest.sh to pick tarball-vs-wheel mode from the input extension
(--manifest stays tarball-only: it verifies ELF hashes against the release
layout, which a bare wheel has no tree for).

runLLMBuild() then applies the branch's latest promoted bundle in place, before
the upload and before the local pip install and the DLFW repack, so every
consumer sees the same bytes. Scoped to aarch64 with an empty wheel_path, i.e.
the wheel published at the root of <arch>/ that the release job picks up; an
imageTest/ build is a throwaway wheel compiled inside an already-released image
to prove that image can still build from source, so optimizing it would prove
nothing and only add a failure mode.

Failure handling mirrors Build.groovy's applyLatestBolt: a real apply error is
always fatal (never upload a half-BOLTed wheel), while a MISSING bundle is the
cold-start case and is fatal only for a nightly_release run, whose wheels the
release job actually publishes. Otherwise it is a loud skip, so cutting a new
branch does not start failing every sanity-check build.

Verified locally against a synthetic wheel with a stubbed llvm-bolt: the
profiled lib changes, the unprofiled one does not, every RECORD row still
matches the archive contents, the input wheel is left untouched, and
apply_latest.sh returns 0 / 3 / 2 on apply, missing bundle, and apply error.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
…wheel

boltOverlayEnabled and boltProfilesRequired only govern the profile BUNDLE baked
in as a thin Dockerfile.bolt layer, which documents how to reproduce a BOLTed
build but leaves the binaries the image actually installs unoptimized. Nothing
governs the installed wheel, and the tarball it comes from is whichever one
exists first -- the canonical, unoptimized one, since Build-Docker-Images runs
in parallel with the SBSA branch.

Add boltRequireBoltedWheel: when set, the SBSA release image is built from
bolted-<tarball> (get_wheel_from_package.py --bolted) rather than the canonical
tarball, waiting for it to be published and failing if it never is. Kept
independent of the overlay flags so it can be rolled back on its own, and scoped
to sbsa because x86_64 has no promoted bundle to wait for.

Two supporting changes. The wait gets its own, much longer clock: the canonical
tarball lands when the build stage finishes, the BOLTed one only after
BoltProfileGen's SLURM fan-out, whose own stage timeout is 8h -- so 60 minutes
is the wrong budget for it. And the retry that rebuilds the wheel from source
when a build fails with the download args is disabled for this path: it is a
fine recovery for an ordinary build, but here it would silently produce an
unoptimized release image that looks identical to an optimized one.

Also pins wget's output name in the download loop. Without -O it falls back to
<name>.1 when a previous attempt left a partial file behind, and the extract
would then read stale bytes -- a latent bug that gets much more reachable now
that the loop can run for hours.

Default false, so this is inert until a follow-up change turns it on.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
…mage

Pass boltRequireBoltedWheel=true from both BuildDockerImages launches, so the
SBSA release image is built from bolted-<tarball> instead of racing the
canonical tarball and permanently baking in the unoptimized wheel. Both launches
are set together because they push the same tags: the scanned and registered
artifact has to be the same image the post-merge path publishes.

The scaffolding landed inert in the previous change, so this only answers
"should this pipeline require the optimized build".

Operational note: this makes the SBSA release image build wait on BoltProfileGen
rather than on Build-SBSA -- up to 8h rather than 60 minutes -- because that is
what depending on the optimized artifact costs. The alternative is to decouple
and have the image apply the branch's previously promoted bundle itself, the way
pre-merge consume and the image overlay already do, which gets optimized images
with no wait and no race at the cost of profiles from the prior commit.

Rollback: drop boltRequireBoltedWheel from both launches, or set the job
parameter to false. Nothing else has to change -- the canonical tarball is
untouched by BOLT, so the image falls straight back to it.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
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The change centralizes LLVM BOLT version selection, adds standalone wheel processing, applies promoted profiles during wheel retrieval, and integrates required BOLT optimization into selected Jenkins wheel builds.

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BOLT wheel optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
LLVM BOLT version and staging
scripts/bolt/internal/*, jenkins/BoltProfileGen.groovy, jenkins/Build.groovy
LLVM BOLT consumers use the shared version definition. The staging script downloads, validates, and exposes architecture-specific binaries when needed.
Standalone wheel BOLT application
scripts/bolt/apply_bolt.py, scripts/bolt/internal/apply_latest.sh
The BOLT tools accept standalone wheels, write to a separate output, remove failed outputs, and return failure status when application fails.
BOLT wheel retrieval contract
scripts/get_wheel_from_package.py
The script accepts ordered profile branches, downloads artifacts to a canonical filename, applies profiles to matching wheels, and fails when no branch provides a usable profile.
Jenkins BOLT build flow
jenkins/L0_Test.groovy, jenkins/BuildDockerImage.groovy
Jenkins adds optional BOLT wheel optimization. Eligible SBSA and aarch64 release-wheel flows use ordered profiles and do not fall back to unoptimized builds when optimization is required.

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  participant Jenkins
  participant WheelRetrieval
  participant ApplyLatest
  participant ApplyBOLT
  participant WheelBuild
  Jenkins->>WheelRetrieval: Request wheel with ordered BOLT branches
  WheelRetrieval->>ApplyLatest: Apply profile to extracted wheel
  ApplyLatest->>ApplyBOLT: Process standalone wheel
  ApplyBOLT-->>WheelRetrieval: Return optimized wheel or failure
  WheelRetrieval-->>Jenkins: Provide wheel or fail release preparation
  Jenkins->>WheelBuild: Build with required optimized wheel
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🟠 Major · Honor boltRequireBoltedWheel before this early return. · BuildDockerImage.groovy:281-284

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Honor boltRequireBoltedWheel before this early return.

buildImage maps an SBSA arm64 release configuration to arch == "sbsa". When BOLT_REQUIRE_BOLTED_WHEEL=true and ENABLE_USE_WHEEL_FROM_BUILD_STAGE=false, this return runs before requireBolted is computed. The caller then passes empty buildWheelArgs to make, which can build and publish an unoptimized image instead of enforcing the BOLT-optimized wheel requirement.

Allow this required path through the gate while preserving the skip behavior for other builds.

Proposed fix
 def prepareWheelFromBuildStage(dockerfileStage, arch) {
-    if (!ENABLE_USE_WHEEL_FROM_BUILD_STAGE) {
-        echo "useWheelFromBuildStage is false, skip preparing wheel from build stage"
-        return ""
-    }
-
     if (!(TRIGGER_TYPE in ["post-merge", "nightly-release"])) {
         echo "Trigger type does not use the build stage wheel"
         return ""
@@
     if (dockerfileStage != "release") {
         echo "prepareWheelFromBuildStage: ${dockerfileStage} is not release"
         return ""
     }
 
+    def requireBolted = BOLT_REQUIRE_BOLTED_WHEEL && arch == "sbsa"
+    if (!ENABLE_USE_WHEEL_FROM_BUILD_STAGE && !requireBolted) {
+        echo "useWheelFromBuildStage is false, skip preparing wheel from build stage"
+        return ""
+    }
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     def wheelScript = 'scripts/get_wheel_from_package.py'
-    def requireBolted = BOLT_REQUIRE_BOLTED_WHEEL && arch == "sbsa"
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In `@jenkins/BuildDockerImage.groovy` around lines 281 - 284, Update
prepareWheelFromBuildStage so requireBolted is computed before the
ENABLE_USE_WHEEL_FROM_BUILD_STAGE early return, and allow execution to continue
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In `@jenkins/BuildDockerImage.groovy`:
- Line 306: Update the wheelArgs construction to pass the resolved UPLOAD_PATH
value to --artifact_path instead of env.uploadPath, matching the path used by
artifact upload and preserving the default when env.uploadPath is unset.

In `@scripts/get_wheel_from_package.py`:
- Around line 61-65: Update the BOLT publication flow associated with the bolted
flag so it uploads the artifact as bolted-${tarName} at the artifact path.
Preserve publication of the canonical and unbolted- artifacts, and keep the
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- Around line 281-284: Update prepareWheelFromBuildStage so requireBolted is
computed before the ENABLE_USE_WHEEL_FROM_BUILD_STAGE early return, and allow
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PR_Github #74470 [ run ] triggered by Bot. Commit: 91964e9 Link to invocation

Review feedback: the "keep in sync with scripts/bolt internal/slurm_*.sh"
comment was a one-way reference with nothing on the other end.

The pin had five copies -- slurm_merge.sh, perf_instrument_hook.sh,
Build.groovy, BoltProfileGen.groovy, and the one this PR added in L0_Test.groovy.
Drift between them is not a build error: instrumentation, merge and apply
exchange .fdata/.yaml profiles whose formats are not guaranteed stable across
releases, so a mismatched version silently produces a bad or empty profile.
A comment asking five call sites to stay in sync is the wrong tool for that.

Move the pin to scripts/bolt/internal/llvm_bolt_version.sh and source it
everywhere. The Groovy callers read it from the checkout they already have
rather than interpolating a literal, so bumping the version is now one line in
one file. The conditional assignment is preserved, so LLVM_BOLT_VERSION from the
environment still overrides it for a one-off run.

Two resolution details. BoltProfileGen builds the tarball name and cache key
shell-side now, because its staging step runs after the cluster-side extract and
so can source the file from the extracted tree. slurm_merge.sh resolves via
TOOLKIT_HOST rather than BASH_SOURCE, because sbatch runs a copy of the script
out of the node's spool directory and its own path says nothing about where the
toolkit lives -- the same reason that file already took TOOLKIT_HOST from the
environment.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
… run mode

Review feedback, two parts.

nightly_release was the wrong trigger. The wheel the release job publishes is
the same artifact whether the run is nightly, weekly or GA, so keying off one
run mode meant the others shipped un-BOLTed. The question is "is BOLT on", not
"is this a nightly".

And the step ignored the pipeline's BOLT switch entirely -- it would have run on
any nightly_release regardless of whether the run asked for BOLTed binaries.
Gate on globalVars.bolt_consume_build, the same value
L0_MergeRequest::resolveBoltConsume hands the build helpers for the tarball, so
the released wheel and the released tarball can never be optimized differently.
Read with the ?.toString() == "true" idiom Build.groovy already uses, since the
value crosses a JSON parameter boundary.

With the switch as the trigger, the required/optional split goes away: a missing
bundle is now fatal like every other failure. "BOLT is on" has to mean the wheel
IS optimized -- degrading to an un-BOLTed wheel with a log line is exactly how an
unoptimized artifact reaches PyPI unnoticed. This is stricter than Build.groovy's
applyLatestBolt, which skips on a missing bundle; it has to be lenient because
the same switch covers x86_64, where nothing is promoted yet, while this path is
aarch64-only and the switch is main-only.

Known gap worth a look: resolveBoltConsume also disables the switch for
post-merge, because the post-merge TARBALL is the un-BOLTed input BoltProfileGen
profiles. That reasoning does not apply to this wheel -- it is a separate build
that BoltProfileGen never reads -- so post-merge sanity-check wheels stay
un-BOLTed as a side effect. Harmless today (those wheels are not released), but
say the word if the release path ever draws from a post-merge run and it should
get its own switch instead.

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Review feedback, two related holes in the apply path.

bolt_elf() returned False when llvm-bolt failed and both callers just skipped
the member. With two matching ELFs where one fails, the count stayed positive,
the wheel was repacked, and the result was uploaded -- a partially optimized
artifact is indistinguishable from a fully optimized one, so nothing downstream
would ever notice.

bolt_elf() now raises BoltApplyError instead. There is no caller that can
sensibly continue, so reporting-and-skipping was the wrong shape. main() turns
it into exit 2 after the detailed llvm-bolt output bolt_elf already logged, and
bolt_standalone_wheel() deletes the copy it made before re-raising, so no
half-written wheel is left where a caller might upload it. The loose-ELF loop in
the tarball path had the identical hole and is fixed by the same change.

Also reject --output == --wheel. process_wheel() rewrites its argument, so the
in-place case silently violated the contract the function documents: the input
is copied first precisely so a failed apply leaves it usable.

Extracting the body into _apply() is what lets main() own the try/except/finally
without re-indenting the whole function under a second try.

Verified with a stubbed llvm-bolt that fails for one selected library:
- wheel, all libs bolt: repacked, RECORD rows all match, unprofiled lib untouched
- wheel, one lib fails: exit 2, no output file left behind
- tarball, loose ELF fails: exit 2, no output file left behind
- --output == --wheel: rejected, input wheel unmodified

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
Review feedback. prepareWheelFromBuildStage built --artifact_path from
env.uploadPath directly. The two agree whenever the parent passed the parameter,
but an unset env interpolates to the string "null" and the download then polls
.../null/<tarball>.

Pre-existing, and previously self-limiting: the poll timed out and the build
fell back to compiling the wheel from source. This change removes that fallback
for the BOLT-required SBSA path and stretches the wait to 8h, so the same typo
now costs most of a day and then fails. UPLOAD_PATH already carries the
job-scoped default for exactly this case.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
…for one

Reworks this PR from "wait for this run's bolted- tarball" to "BOLT the wheel
the image installs, using the branch's last promoted bundle".

The previous shape had the release image build block on BoltProfileGen: up to 8h
holding a docker builder pod, and only workable post-merge, because nothing
publishes a bolted- tarball in a nightly or GA run (the producer is gated on
JOB_NAME matching PostMerge). It also quietly contradicted the decision to treat
a producer failure as UNSTABLE -- with the image hard-requiring the artifact, a
SLURM hiccup failed post-merge anyway, eight hours later, in a stage that looks
unrelated to the cause.

The image installs a wheel, so optimizing that wheel is the whole requirement;
where the profiles come from is a separate question. Taking the last promoted
bundle answers it without an in-run dependency: no wait, no race with
Build-Docker-Images, and nightly and GA containers get optimized binaries for
the first time.

The cost is profile drift -- the bundle is from the last successful promote
rather than this commit. That is the same contract Build.groovy's pre-merge
consume and the Dockerfile.bolt overlay already ship with, and -infer-stale-
profile means drift costs optimization quality, never correctness. Same-commit
profiles are still used where they are free: the post-merge SBSA test stages run
after BoltProfileGen in the same branch and keep preferring this run's tarball.

Mechanically this reuses the wheel support added for the release wheel:
get_wheel_from_package.py downloads the canonical tarball as before, then runs
apply_latest.sh on the extracted wheel before the release stage pip installs it.
Dockerfile.multi's wheel stage already COPYs scripts/, so the toolkit is in
context. Branch resolution mirrors the image overlay (explicit override, then
LLM_BRANCH, then main) and is fatal if none has a bundle.

llvm-bolt staging moves into apply_latest.sh via a new stage_llvm_bolt.sh, since
the image build cannot stage it the way the Jenkins pods do. It is a no-op when
llvm-bolt is already on PATH, and honors GITHUB_MIRROR like install_ccache.sh
and install_cmake.sh, which already pull release tarballs from github.com during
the image build.

boltRequireBoltedWheel is renamed boltOptimizeWheel to match what it now does,
and the 8h wait constant is gone.

Verified with a stubbed bundle pull and llvm-bolt: a branch with no bundle falls
through to the next candidate, the wheel landing in build/ is optimized, its
RECORD rows all match, and unprofiled libraries are untouched.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
…mage wheel

Follows the rework in the previous change: the parameter is boltOptimizeWheel
and it BOLTs the wheel during the image build rather than waiting for this run's
bolted- tarball.

Two consequences worth noting for review. This no longer depends on the
post-merge publication toggle (NVIDIA#19209) at all -- it reads the branch's last
promoted bundle, so the only prerequisite is that a bundle has been promoted at
some point. And the image build no longer waits on BoltProfileGen, so a producer
failure stays UNSTABLE as intended instead of failing post-merge eight hours
later from an unrelated-looking stage.

Both launches are set together because they push the same tags: the scanned and
registered artifact has to be the same image the post-merge path publishes.

Rollback: drop boltOptimizeWheel from both launches, or set the job parameter to
false. The image then installs the wheel as built, exactly as today.

Signed-off-by: Matt Lefebvre <[email protected]>
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Pre-commit's ruff-format hook. The dedent into _apply() brought the
process_wheel() call under the line limit, so it collapses to one line, and the
new err() call wraps differently than I wrote it.

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The hoist exists for every consumer below launchBuildJobs' scope, and the
overlay is the one that predates this PR, so naming it keeps the comment true
on the pin PR this work is stacked behind as well.

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