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test(e2e): split the tenant worker CPU time across QEMU threads - #3843

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What this PR does

The node-join diagnostics already read the worker's CPU counters twice on failure, but they read the compute container's cgroup, and that cgroup holds every thread QEMU runs: the guest vCPUs, the emulator thread, the IO threads. A container spending most of its quota while the guest makes no progress has two incompatible readings and no container-level counter picks one. This adds the per-thread split.

It execs into each Running worker's compute container and copies the QEMU process's /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/stat lines into the artifact verbatim, with a legend. Nothing is computed in the collector. The legend is there because the field positions are a trap that gives a wrong answer instead of an error: a vCPU thread is named CPU 0/KVM, that space sits inside the comm parentheses, and awk over whitespace then reads the wrong column for exactly the threads the split is about.

It runs in the sampling loop the other two subjects already share, so there is no second wait. Rates come from the two files and the stamps in them.

Every way the read can fall short gets its own sentence in the artifact instead of an empty directory, and neither the legend nor the pairing instruction is attached to a read that did not finish.

Coverage is hack/run-kubernetes-thread-cpu_test.bats, under make unit-tests. It drives those outcomes rather than grepping the source for them, and runs the probe against staged /proc trees.

Context: #3513. This is an instrument, not a fix, and it does not close that issue.

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Walked against the diff. It touches hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh, the two kubernetes chainsaw suites, three hack/*.bats files and one paragraph in docs/agents/e2e-testing.md. Nothing under packages/ moves, no ApplicationDefinition, schema, enum or default changes, no namespace or platform variant is renamed, no metric changes, and no label or annotation another component matches as a literal is touched. The two repositories that vendor out of hack/ take hack/package.mk and hack/update-crd.sh, and neither is in this diff.

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test(e2e): on tenant node-join failure, capture how the compute container's CPU time splits across QEMU's vCPU, emulator and IO threads

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added per-thread CPU diagnostics for worker compute processes.
    • Reports sampling timestamps, outcomes, interpretation notes, and relevant missing or incomplete data.
    • Improved Pod and node discovery for diagnostic collection.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified diagnostic sampling intervals, timing, and collection budgets.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for per-thread CPU diagnostics, bounded sampling, failure handling, fallbacks, and budget enforcement.

The node-join diagnostics phase samples the tenant worker's CPU
counters twice on failure, but it reads them from the compute
container's cgroup, and that cgroup holds every thread QEMU runs:
the guest's vCPUs, QEMU's main thread, and its IO and worker
threads. A container burning most of its quota while the guest
reports no progress is two incompatible findings wearing one
number, and no container-level counter separates them.

Add a collector that execs into each Running worker's compute
container, finds the QEMU process and copies every
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/stat line into the artifact verbatim, with a
legend beside them. Nothing is computed here. The legend names
where utime and stime sit and why counting fields over whitespace
reads the wrong column for exactly the threads the split is about:
a KVM vCPU thread is named "CPU 0/KVM", that space is inside the
comm parentheses, and every field after it shifts by one.

It runs inside the sampling loop the two existing subjects already
share, so it costs no second wait: both readings ride the interval
already being paid, and the rate comes from the two files plus the
stamps each one carries.

Every way the read can come up short is a named outcome rather than
an empty directory, and the legend and the pairing instruction are
withheld from each of them: telling a reader to subtract two files
asserts that both hold a whole reading. The probe shells out to
nothing but getconf, whose absence it names, because a probe that
needed cat would report a container missing coreutils as a
container whose QEMU had exited, and it counts what it managed to
read so that having read no process at all stays separable from
having read them all without finding QEMU. Its stderr is suppressed
on the walk rather than on either read: redirections are applied
left to right, so a 2>/dev/null after an input redirect is not in
place yet when opening the input fails, and a thread that exits
between the glob and the read would otherwise put a shell
complaint in the artifact beside a healthy capture. It also reports
a QEMU that was named and then gone before its task files could be
opened, because a process heading alone is enough to make the
capture non-empty and would otherwise carry a legend describing
columns the file does not have.

The Pod listing the cAdvisor captures already share now takes its
whole query as a parameter, so this collector reuses that read
rather than carrying a third copy of it, and asks for the Running
Pods only: a launcher left over from an earlier attempt costs the
sibling caller nothing and would cost this one a bounded exec and a
slot under its cap. The guard that holds the sampling group against
the room the tenant snapshot needs now counts every capped walk in
the loop rather than the two spelled the same way, so the new
subject is inside the arithmetic rather than beside it.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
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The diagnostics now collect bounded QEMU per-thread /proc CPU statistics from tenant worker compute containers. The change adds reusable Pod listing, failure classification, two-sample integration, updated timing documentation, and extensive Bats coverage.

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Worker per-thread CPU diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generalized worker listing helpers
hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh, hack/run-kubernetes-cpu-throttle_test.bats
A parameterized listing helper now supports node and Pod projections, deduplicates results, and reports empty listings.
QEMU per-thread CPU collection
hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh
The collector probes QEMU process and thread statistics in up to four Running worker Pods. It records bounded timestamps, statuses, errors, and parsing guidance.
Diagnostic phase and budget integration
hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh, hack/e2e-chainsaw/kubernetes-*/chainsaw-test.yaml, hack/run-kubernetes-node-join_test.bats, hack/run-kubernetes-cpu-throttle_test.bats, docs/agents/e2e-testing.md
The collector runs for both samples, shares the existing interval, and updates phase budgets, timeout warnings, tests, and documentation.
Collector regression coverage
hack/run-kubernetes-thread-cpu_test.bats
Tests cover probe parsing, bounded Kubernetes reads, failure classes, truncation, timeout fallback, output metadata, phase placement, and sampling order.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cf2d9

This change only expands failure diagnostics and test coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head after normal checks and review. A minor maintenance clarification around the test guard may be followed up separately.

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hack/run-kubernetes-node-join_test.bats (1)

1220-1234: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The cap discovery depends on an exact literal spelling.

grep -oE 'local max_(nodes|pods)=[0-9]+' matches only a local declaration with an inline integer. A future collector that declares its cap as local max_pods on one line and assigns it on the next, or that names it differently, is not counted. The guard then fails with the "found N" diagnostic rather than silently under-counting, so the failure mode is safe. Consider naming that constraint in the comment so the next author knows the spelling is load-bearing.

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   # A literal cap only. The serial-console walk takes its cap from its caller,
   # which is what keeps it out of this expression: it is not part of the pair.
+  # The spelling is load-bearing: a cap declared and assigned on separate lines,
+  # or named anything other than max_nodes/max_pods, is not matched and the
+  # count below fails rather than under-counting in silence.
   caps=$(grep -oE 'local max_(nodes|pods)=[0-9]+' "$lib" | sed -E 's/.*=//')
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In `@hack/run-kubernetes-node-join_test.bats` around lines 1220 - 1234, Clarify
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- Around line 1220-1234: Clarify the comment above the caps extraction to state
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