Describe GPU tenants as data so any application can be arbitrated

The point of this service is fast handoff of one GPU between applications. It grew up
around the two on this box, and their names ended up compiled into process matching,
VRAM attribution, busy detection and release calls alike -- about 385 references
across five modules. That made it a script for Ollama and ComfyUI rather than a GPU
arbitrator.

tenants.py describes an application as data: how to recognise its processes, how to
tell whether it is genuinely working, how to ask it for VRAM back, and how much it
matters when two want the card. Ollama, ComfyUI and the desktop compositor ship as
defaults in tenants.json, so behaviour is unchanged, but the arbitration logic no
longer knows any particular name. Endpoints are generic: GET /api/tenants,
GET /api/tenants/{name}, POST /api/tenants/{name}/release -- the last being the
general form of both the Ollama soft-yield and the ComfyUI purge.

Verified by registering a third application on this machine with no code change: the
speech relay that had been showing up only as anonymous "unmanaged VRAM" is now named,
attributed, and probed by the VRAM it holds rather than by an API it does not have.
Because it declares no release strategy, a release request returns 409 explaining that
its memory cannot be reclaimed, instead of reporting a success that did nothing.

Busy probes deliberately cannot use GPU utilisation. It is shared by every tenant, so
it cannot attribute work to one of them -- the mistake that made a stale ComfyUI queue
entry undetectable earlier in this branch. A tenant's own VRAM is the signal.

Writing the tests exposed that the suite had become non-hermetic: classification is now
configuration, so a test asserting "a third-party process is unmanaged" started failing
the moment the speech relay was registered on this machine. An autouse fixture now
isolates every test from the operator's live tenants.json.

Tests: 231 (was 206).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""GPU tenants: the applications competing for the card, described as data.
The point of this service is fast handoff of a single GPU between applications. It grew
up around the two on this box, and their names ended up compiled into process matching,
VRAM attribution, busy detection and release calls alike -- roughly 385 references. That
makes it a script for Ollama and ComfyUI rather than a GPU arbitrator.
A tenant is described here instead:
* how to recognise its processes (match)
* how to tell whether it is actually working (busy probe)
* how to ask it to give VRAM back (release strategy)
* how much it matters when two want the card (priority)
Ollama and ComfyUI ship as defaults so behaviour is unchanged, but nothing about the
arbitration logic knows their names. A third application -- a training run, a speech
model, another inference server -- is a config entry, not a code change. A tenant that
cannot be released (no API to ask) is still worth declaring, because naming it turns
"unmanaged VRAM" into "held by X, which cannot be reclaimed".
"""
import json
import logging
import os
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
import httpx
import psutil
logger = logging.getLogger("tenants")
_BASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
CONFIG_PATH = os.environ.get("HYPERSWAP_TENANTS", os.path.join(_BASE, "tenants.json"))
# Kinds are advisory: they drive presentation and sensible defaults, never control flow.
KIND_LLM, KIND_DIFFUSION, KIND_DESKTOP, KIND_OTHER = "llm", "diffusion", "desktop", "other"
@dataclass
class ProcessMatch:
"""How to recognise a tenant's processes among those NVML reports."""
names: List[str] = field(default_factory=list) # matched against process name
cmdline: List[str] = field(default_factory=list) # substrings of the full cmdline
cmdline_endswith: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
def matches(self, pname: str, cmdline: str) -> bool:
pname, cmdline = pname.lower(), cmdline.lower()
if any(n.lower() in pname for n in self.names):
return True
if any(c.lower() in cmdline for c in self.cmdline):
return True
return any(cmdline.rstrip().endswith(c.lower()) for c in self.cmdline_endswith)
@dataclass
class BusyProbe:
"""How to tell whether a tenant is genuinely working.
`vram_floor_gb` exists because a queue flag can lie: ComfyUI leaves dead jobs in
queue_running, and only its VRAM reveals that nothing is loaded. GPU utilisation is
deliberately unavailable as a signal -- it is shared by every tenant, so it cannot
attribute work to one of them.
"""
type: str = "none" # none | http_count | vram
url: Optional[str] = None
count_keys: List[str] = field(default_factory=list) # keys whose lists are summed
vram_busy_gb: float = 0.0 # busy when its VRAM exceeds this
vram_floor_gb: float = 0.0 # below this it holds no real work
stale_after_s: float = 90.0
@dataclass
class ReleaseStrategy:
"""How to ask a tenant to give VRAM back."""
type: str = "none" # none | http_post
url: Optional[str] = None
body: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
# Set when the call must name the loaded model (Ollama unloads per model).
per_model: bool = False
timeout_s: float = 120.0
confirm: bool = True # wait for NVML to show the memory released
@dataclass
class GpuTenant:
name: str
kind: str = KIND_OTHER
enabled: bool = True
# Higher wins contention; a tenant yields to anything above it.
priority: int = 50
match: ProcessMatch = field(default_factory=ProcessMatch)
busy: BusyProbe = field(default_factory=BusyProbe)
release: ReleaseStrategy = field(default_factory=ReleaseStrategy)
notes: str = ""
@property
def reclaimable(self) -> bool:
return self.release.type != "none"
def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
return asdict(self)
def _tenant_from_dict(d: Dict[str, Any]) -> GpuTenant:
return GpuTenant(
name=d["name"],
kind=d.get("kind", KIND_OTHER),
enabled=d.get("enabled", True),
priority=int(d.get("priority", 50)),
match=ProcessMatch(**(d.get("match") or {})),
busy=BusyProbe(**(d.get("busy") or {})),
release=ReleaseStrategy(**(d.get("release") or {})),
notes=d.get("notes", ""),
)
# Defaults reproduce today's behaviour exactly; they are data, not special cases.
DEFAULT_TENANTS: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [
{
"name": "ollama",
"kind": KIND_LLM,
"priority": 60,
"match": {"names": ["ollama"], "cmdline": ["llama-server", "ollama"]},
"busy": {"type": "http_count", "url": "http://localhost:11434/api/ps",
"count_keys": ["models"]},
"release": {"type": "http_post", "url": "http://localhost:11434/api/generate",
"body": {"keep_alive": 0}, "per_model": True, "timeout_s": 120.0},
"notes": "Unloads per model. With OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL=1 the request queues "
"behind any running generation and applies when it finishes.",
},
{
"name": "comfyui",
"kind": KIND_DIFFUSION,
"priority": 50,
"match": {"cmdline": ["comfyui", "comfy"], "cmdline_endswith": ["main.py"]},
"busy": {"type": "http_count", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8188/queue",
"count_keys": ["queue_running", "queue_pending"],
"vram_floor_gb": 1.5, "stale_after_s": 90.0},
"release": {"type": "http_post", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8188/free",
"body": {"unload_models": True, "free_memory": True},
"timeout_s": 30.0},
"notes": "Leaves dead jobs in queue_running; the queue flag is corroborated "
"against its own VRAM before being believed.",
},
{
"name": "desktop",
"kind": KIND_DESKTOP,
"priority": 90,
"match": {"names": ["gnome-shell", "xorg", "mutter", "kwin", "plasmashell",
"gnome-remote-desktop", "sddm", "gdm", "picom", "weston"]},
"release": {"type": "none"},
"notes": "Compositor and display server. Small, permanent, never reclaimable.",
},
]
_cache: Dict[str, Any] = {"ts": 0.0, "tenants": None, "mtime": None}
CACHE_TTL_S = 10.0
def load_tenants(force: bool = False) -> List[GpuTenant]:
"""Load tenant definitions, writing the defaults out on first run."""
now = time.time()
try:
mtime = os.path.getmtime(CONFIG_PATH) if os.path.exists(CONFIG_PATH) else None
except OSError:
mtime = None
if (not force and _cache["tenants"] is not None
and mtime == _cache["mtime"] and (now - _cache["ts"]) < CACHE_TTL_S):
return _cache["tenants"]
raw: List[Dict[str, Any]]
if os.path.exists(CONFIG_PATH):
try:
with open(CONFIG_PATH) as f:
raw = json.load(f)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"could not read {CONFIG_PATH}, using defaults: {e}")
raw = DEFAULT_TENANTS
else:
raw = DEFAULT_TENANTS
try:
with open(CONFIG_PATH, "w") as f:
json.dump(DEFAULT_TENANTS, f, indent=2)
logger.info(f"wrote default tenant definitions to {CONFIG_PATH}")
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"could not write {CONFIG_PATH}: {e}")
tenants = []
for d in raw:
try:
tenants.append(_tenant_from_dict(d))
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"skipping malformed tenant {d!r}: {e}")
_cache.update({"ts": now, "tenants": tenants, "mtime": mtime})
return tenants
def get_tenant(name: str) -> Optional[GpuTenant]:
return next((t for t in load_tenants() if t.name == name), None)
def save_tenants(tenants: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> bool:
try:
with open(CONFIG_PATH, "w") as f:
json.dump(tenants, f, indent=2)
_cache["tenants"] = None
return True
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"save_tenants failed: {e}")
return False
def classify_process(pname: str, cmdline: str) -> str:
"""Return the owning tenant's name, or 'unmanaged'.
'unmanaged' is meaningful rather than a dumping ground: it is VRAM this service has
no way to reclaim, and it is reported as such.
"""
for t in load_tenants():
if t.enabled and t.match.matches(pname, cmdline):
return t.name
return "unmanaged"
def classify_pid(pid: int) -> str:
try:
proc = psutil.Process(pid)
return classify_process(proc.name(), " ".join(proc.cmdline()))
except Exception:
return "unmanaged"
async def probe_busy(tenant: GpuTenant, vram_gb: float = 0.0,
state: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""Is this tenant actually working? Returns {busy, reason, stale}."""
probe = tenant.busy
if probe.type == "vram":
busy = vram_gb > probe.vram_busy_gb
return {"busy": busy, "reason": f"{vram_gb:.2f} GB held", "stale": False}
if probe.type != "http_count" or not probe.url:
return {"busy": False, "reason": "no busy probe configured", "stale": False}
try:
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=3.0) as c:
r = await c.get(probe.url)
if r.status_code != 200:
return {"busy": False, "reason": f"probe HTTP {r.status_code}", "stale": False}
data = r.json()
count = sum(len(data.get(k) or []) for k in probe.count_keys)
except Exception as e:
return {"busy": False, "reason": f"probe failed: {str(e)[:60]}", "stale": False}
if count == 0:
return {"busy": False, "reason": "queue empty", "stale": False}
# A queue that claims work while the tenant holds no VRAM is not doing work.
if probe.vram_floor_gb and vram_gb < probe.vram_floor_gb:
return {"busy": True, "reason": f"{count} queued, holding {vram_gb:.2f} GB",
"stale": None, "below_floor": True}
return {"busy": True, "reason": f"{count} queued/running", "stale": False}
async def release_vram(tenant: GpuTenant, models: Optional[List[str]] = None
) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""Ask a tenant to give its VRAM back, however that tenant expects to be asked."""
strategy = tenant.release
if strategy.type == "none" or not strategy.url:
return {"success": False, "tenant": tenant.name, "released": False,
"reason": "this tenant exposes no way to release VRAM"}
t0 = time.perf_counter()
payloads: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
if strategy.per_model:
for m in (models or []):
payloads.append({**strategy.body, "model": m})
if not payloads:
return {"success": True, "tenant": tenant.name, "released": False,
"reason": "nothing loaded to release"}
else:
payloads.append(dict(strategy.body))
errors = []
try:
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=strategy.timeout_s) as c:
for body in payloads:
try:
await c.post(strategy.url, json=body)
except Exception as e:
errors.append(str(e)[:80])
except Exception as e:
errors.append(str(e)[:80])
return {
"success": not errors,
"tenant": tenant.name,
"released": True,
"requests": len(payloads),
"duration_ms": round((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000, 2),
"errors": errors or None,
}
def describe() -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
"""Tenant definitions for the API, with what each can and cannot do."""
out = []
for t in sorted(load_tenants(), key=lambda x: -x.priority):
d = t.to_dict()
d["reclaimable"] = t.reclaimable
d["busy_probe"] = t.busy.type
d["release_via"] = t.release.type
out.append(d)
return out