Update blocksize for upstream polars tests by TomAugspurger · Pull Request #24091 · NVIDIA/cudf

TomAugspurger · 2026-09-09T18:14:49Z

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This changes our blocksize mode policy in upstream polars tests. On PRs, to save on CI time, we only test PRs with the default engine. test jobs (nightlies / main) use the small blocksize mode.

Some of the test skip messages mention being too slow with the small blocksize mode, so I've moved those to a new STREAMING_ENGINE_TESTS_TO_SKIP_SMALL_BLOCKSIZE dictionary.

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- Added configurable GPU engine block sizes for cuDF Polars test runs, including default and small configurations.
- Improved streaming-engine test handling across block-size modes, including skips and expected failures.
- Expanded test-duration reporting and lowered the minimum duration threshold for more comprehensive results.
- Updated validation of small streaming options to use shared sizing values.
- Streamlined parallel test execution by reducing the number of SPMD shards.

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The change adds default and small GPU engine blocksize selection to CI. The test runner validates and forwards the selection. The test plugin applies blocksize-specific streaming skips and expected failures using shared partition constants.

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GPU engine blocksize testing

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Blocksize selection and CI execution `.github/workflows/*.yaml`, `ci/run_cudf_polars_polars_tests.sh`	The test runner accepts and validates `default` and `small`, reports the selected value, passes it to pytest, and expands duration reporting. CI workflows select the required blocksize and reduce the SPMD matrix to two shards.
Blocksize-specific plugin marking `python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/testing/inject_gpu_engine.py`, `python/cudf_polars/tests/testing/test_engine_utils.py`	The plugin uses shared small-partition constants and separate streaming skip and expected-failure mappings for default and small blocksize runs. Tests use the shared constants.

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- Around line 585-601: Add unit tests covering the marker-selection logic around
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coderabbitai · 2026-09-10T20:48:29Z

+    with_small_blocksize = (
+        with_streaming_engine
+        and config.getoption("--inject-gpu-engine-blocksize") == "small"
+    )
+    skips = dict(TESTS_TO_SKIP)
+    xfails = dict(EXPECTED_FAILURES)
+    if with_streaming_engine:
+        skips.update(STREAMING_ENGINE_TESTS_TO_SKIP)
+        xfails.update(STREAMING_ENGINE_EXPECTED_FAILURES)
+        if with_small_blocksize:
+            skips.update(STREAMING_ENGINE_TESTS_TO_SKIP_SMALL_BLOCKSIZE)
+            xfails.update(STREAMING_ENGINE_EXPECTED_FAILURES_SMALL_BLOCKSIZE)
    for item in items:
-        if (reason := TESTS_TO_SKIP.get(item.nodeid)) is not None or (
-            with_streaming_engine
-            and (reason := STREAMING_ENGINE_TESTS_TO_SKIP.get(item.nodeid, None))
-            is not None
-        ):
-            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.skip(reason=reason))
-        elif (
-            with_streaming_engine
-            and (s_reason := STREAMING_ENGINE_EXPECTED_FAILURES.get(item.nodeid, None))
-            is not None
-        ):
-            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.xfail(reason=s_reason))
-        elif (reason := EXPECTED_FAILURES.get(item.nodeid)) is not None:
-            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.xfail(reason=reason))
+        if (skip_reason := skips.get(item.nodeid)) is not None:
+            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.skip(reason=skip_reason))
+        elif (xfail_reason := xfails.get(item.nodeid)) is not None:
+            item.add_marker(pytest.mark.xfail(reason=xfail_reason))


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Add unit tests for the blocksize marker matrix.

Test the in-memory, SPMD/default, and SPMD/small cases. Verify that small-blocksize skips and expected failures apply only to SPMD/small. Also test that --inject-gpu-engine-raise-on-fail suppresses expected-failure markers.

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TomAugspurger · 2026-09-11T15:42:29Z

Some test timings:

Shard 1: 11585 passed, 40 skipped, 50 xfailed in 198.10s (0:03:18)
Shard 2: 11608 passed, 27 skipped, 43 xfailed in 241.87s (0:04:01)
Shard 3: 11486 passed, 37 skipped, 49 xfailed in 219.08s (0:03:39)

For context, in a recent run those ran in ~00:6:30 - ~00:9:30. So about a 3-6 minute speedup.

TomAugspurger · 2026-09-11T17:44:48Z

Given the reduction in test time, I've reduced the shard count from 3 to 2.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/34625876525/job/103355024355?pr=24091: Tests took 06:14, setup took ~9:26
https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/34625876525/job/103355025844?pr=24091: Tests took 3:41, setup took ~7:30

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TomAugspurger changed the title ~~Update cudf-polars upstream polars blocksize~~ Update blocksize for upstream polars tests Sep 9, 2026

Update cudf-polars upstream polars blocksize

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