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@elmiko elmiko commented Sep 10, 2025

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/kind bug

What this PR does / why we need it:

This PR adds a new lister for ready unschedulable nodes, it also connects that lister to a new parameter in the node info processors Process function. This change enables the autoscaler to use unschedulable, but otherwise ready, nodes as a last resort when creating node templates for scheduling simulation.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #8380

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I'm not sure if this is the best way to solve this problem, but i am proposing this for further discussion and design.

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?

Node groups where all the nodes are ready but unschedulable will be processed as potential candidates for scaling when simulating cluster scheduling.

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elmiko commented Sep 10, 2025

i'm working on adding more unit tests for this behavior, but i wanted to share this solution so we could start talking about it.

@elmiko elmiko force-pushed the unschedulable-nodes-fix branch from a0ebb28 to 3270172 Compare October 2, 2025 20:50
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elmiko commented Oct 2, 2025

i've rewritten this patch to use all nodes as the secondary value instead of using a new list of ready unschedulable nodes.

@elmiko elmiko changed the title WIP update to include unschedulable nodes update node info processors to include unschedulable nodes Oct 2, 2025
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elmiko commented Oct 2, 2025

i need to do a little more testing on this locally, but i think this is fine for review.

// Last resort - unready/unschedulable nodes.
for _, node := range nodes {
// we want to check not only the ready nodes, but also ready unschedulable nodes.
for _, node := range append(nodes, allNodes...) {
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i'm not sure that this is appropriate to append these. theoretically the allNodes should already contain nodes. i'm going to test this out using just allNodes.

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due to filtering that happens in obtainNodeLists, we need to combine both lists of nodes here.

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elmiko commented Oct 3, 2025

i updated the argument names in the Process function to make the source of the nodes more clear. i also changed the mixed node info processor to not double count the nodes for the unschedulable/unready detection clause.

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elmiko commented Oct 3, 2025

it seems like the update to the mixed node processor needs a little more investigation.

This change updates the `Process` function of the node info processor
interface so that it can accept a second list of nodes. The second list
contains all the nodes that are not in the first list. This will allow
the mixed node info processor to properly detect unready and
unschedulable nodes for use as templates.
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elmiko commented Oct 3, 2025

it looks like we need both the readyNodes and allNodes lists due to the filtering that happens in the core.

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