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Flow's Core inventory reconciliation had two correctness gaps: lookup requests could exceed Core's configured request limit, and successful expected-inventory snapshots retained live legacy rows that had no usable identity in the snapshot.

Core limits *ByIds RPC requests with the effective runtime_config.max_find_by_ids value, but Flow sent complete resource ID lists in single requests. Deployments with inventories larger than that configured limit therefore received InvalidArgument, causing Flow operations and actual-inventory synchronization to fail. This change wraps Flow machine, switch, and power-shelf *ByIds calls with shared batching that lazily reads and caches the effective limit from Version(display_config=true). A failed limit lookup is not cached and can recover on the next call. The wrapper collects every batch before returning and rejects failed or incomplete batch responses so callers cannot apply a partial inventory snapshot. A zero or absent limit remains unlimited. It operates at the Forge client boundary, so it also covers direct lookups such as the NVLink domain topology path in #5037.

This also completes the identity transition introduced by #4974. That PR made Core rack ID and host BMC MAC the primary identities for mirrored racks and components, retained the complete manufacturer/serial pair as a fallback, and exempted legacy rows that had neither identity as a compatibility safeguard for existing ingestion paths. When the expected mirror is enabled, a successful Core response is authoritative for that resource type. Keeping an identity-less row live leaves stale inventory visible to list/count and drift paths; an identity-less rack can also reserve its globally unique name and prevent a real Core rack from being mirrored. The rack mirror now soft-deletes rows with neither an external ID nor a complete manufacturer/serial pair, and the component mirror does the same for rows with neither a host BMC nor a complete manufacturer/serial pair. Identifiable legacy racks remain available for later natural-key adoption, RPC failures still skip reconciliation without deleting rows, and committed deletion counts are checked through RowsAffected.

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  • go test -race ./flow/internal/nicoapi
  • go test ./flow/...
  • go vet ./flow/...
  • go tool revive -config .revive.toml -set_exit_status flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc_batch_test.go flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_component.go flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_rack.go flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_db_test.go

The DB-backed expected-mirror reconciliation tests were updated for identity-less, manufacturer-only, serial-only, and complete-natural-key rows, including the two-pass release and reuse of a rack name held by an identity-less row. They compile but skip locally because DB_PORT is not set; CI provides the database environment that executes them.

To validate the in-flight topology path, the batching commit was temporarily merged with #5037 commit f9f0277ad; go test -race ./flow/internal/nicoapi and go test ./flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync both passed on the combined tree.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved batched lookups for machines, switches, and power shelves.
    • Requests now respect server batch-size limits and combine results correctly.
    • Prevented incomplete or partial lookup results and improved error reporting.
    • Inventory synchronization now soft-deletes unidentifiable legacy racks and components missing from the latest snapshot.
    • Identifiable legacy racks remain preserved for potential future reconciliation.
    • Improved cleanup accuracy and reporting during inventory synchronization.

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The gRPC client now batches machine, switch, and power-shelf ID lookups using Core’s runtime batch limit. It validates complete responses and wraps RPC errors. Inventory reconciliation now soft-deletes unidentifiable legacy racks and components, then reports committed deletion counts.

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Core Forge batching and lookup validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Batching client wiring
rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go
A batching Forge client wrapper now handles machine, switch, and power-shelf lookups. NewClient uses the wrapper.
Batch limits and response validation
rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go
The client loads and caches MaxFindByIds, splits IDs, handles empty and unlimited inputs, aggregates responses, and validates returned IDs.
Resource lookup paths and validation tests
rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go, rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc_batch_test.go
Resource lookups clone requests, wrap RPC errors, and reject incomplete results. Tests cover configuration discovery, caching, concurrency, deadlines, batching, RPC failures, and partial responses.

Inventory reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inventory deletion rules and reconciliation tests
rest-api/flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_component.go, rest-api/flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_rack.go, rest-api/flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_db_test.go
Successful empty Core snapshots soft-delete racks and components without a complete identity. Identifiable legacy racks remain active for later adoption. Soft-delete execution validates affected-row counts and reports committed deletions. Tests verify deletion counts and name release.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 03c0f

The orphan cleanup is intended to preserve rows with a complete manufacturer/serial identity, but one test still expects such a row to be deleted. That test must be corrected before merge; no other actionable merge-blocking risk is supplied.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant batchingForgeClient
  participant grpcClient
  participant CoreForge
  batchingForgeClient->>grpcClient: Load MaxFindByIds
  grpcClient-->>batchingForgeClient: Return batch limit
  batchingForgeClient->>grpcClient: Submit lookup batch
  grpcClient->>CoreForge: Send batched IDs
  CoreForge-->>grpcClient: Return matching resources
  grpcClient-->>batchingForgeClient: Validate and aggregate results
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rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go (1)

272-279: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use range-based iteration for batch traversal.

Line 272 uses a C-style for loop. Replace it with range-based iteration while preserving the batch boundaries and error behavior.

As per coding guidelines, rest-api/**/*.go: Prefer range-based iteration over C-style for loops.

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In `@rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go` around lines 272 - 279, Update the
batch traversal loop around fetch to use range-based iteration over batch start
positions, preserving the existing batchSize boundaries, fetch calls, result
accumulation, and immediate error return behavior.

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In `@rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go`:
- Around line 272-279: Update the batch traversal loop around fetch to use
range-based iteration over batch start positions, preserving the existing
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@kunzhao-nv kunzhao-nv changed the title fix(flow): honor Core find-by-ID limit fix(flow): batch Core inventory lookups and remove orphan rows Aug 17, 2026
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Comment thread rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go Outdated
return nil, nil
}

limit, err := client.loadMaxFindByIDs(ctx)

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This can be loaded only once and saved in batchingForgeClient.

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Addressed. The effective limit is now lazily loaded and cached in batchingForgeClient. Only successful loads are cached, so a transient Version failure is retried by the next lookup.

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return nil
}

func machineIDsToStrings(ids []*corev1.MachineId) []string {

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consider to create a generics function for xxxIDsToStrings().

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Addressed. The three resource-specific conversion helpers are replaced with the generic protoIDsToStrings[T protoID], preserving request order and the generated protobuf GetId() nil behavior.

Comment thread rest-api/flow/internal/nicoapi/grpc.go Outdated
options ...grpc.CallOption,
) (*corev1.MachineList, error) {
client := &grpcClient{gclient: c.ForgeClient}
machines, err := client.findMachinesByRequest(ctx, request, options...)

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What is your consideration to make FindMachinesByIds() to be a wrapper of findMachinesByRequest()? We can just call findByIDBatches() here, and make the fetch function to be a helper.

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Addressed. Each batchingForgeClient.Find*ByIds method now calls findByIDBatches directly and delegates one raw batch to a resource-specific fetch helper. The temporary grpcClient construction and reverse layering are removed. Batch traversal now uses slices.Chunk, and the caller context explicitly covers limit discovery and all batches; deadline exhaustion fails the whole lookup without returning partial results.

// snapshot. Once the current snapshot succeeds, retaining the row
// would leave a permanent orphan, so remove it with the rest of the
// absent expected inventory.
p.toDelete = append(p.toDelete, *c)

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Do the orphaned entries cause any issue? If not, consider to leave them there and use a tool to clean them up if needed.

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The orphan rows have observable impact, so I kept the cleanup and added more coverage. When the expected mirror is enabled, a successful Core response is authoritative for that resource type. An identity-less rack remains live and reserves its globally unique name, which can prevent a real Core rack from being mirrored; the new DB test demonstrates that the first pass removes the orphan and the next pass can reuse the released name. Identity-less components also remain visible in inventory list/count and, depending on type, drift paths despite having no identity with which to join the Core snapshot. RPC failures still preserve existing rows, and legacy racks with a complete manufacturer/serial fallback remain eligible for later adoption. The committed deletion counts are now also verified through RowsAffected.

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Have a few comments for improvements.

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- Around line 403-404: Align the test around mirrorExpectedComponents with the
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result := mirrorExpectedComponents(ctx, pool, compType(), nil, map[string]uuid.UUID{})
assert.Equal(t, 1, result.softDeleted, "summary count must reflect the row actually soft-deleted")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Align this assertion with the component identity rule.

The fixture at Line 400 has a complete Manufacturer and SerialNumber pair, so it is identifiable even without a host BMC. The PR objective states that identifiable legacy rows remain available for later adoption; only rows lacking both identities should be soft-deleted. Make the fixture identityless if this test covers orphan cleanup, or expect softDeleted == 0 and assert that DeletedAt remains nil.

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In
`@rest-api/flow/internal/scheduler/jobs/inventorysync/expected_mirror_db_test.go`
around lines 403 - 404, Align the test around mirrorExpectedComponents with the
component identity rule: because the fixture has both Manufacturer and
SerialNumber, expect softDeleted to be 0 and verify its DeletedAt remains nil;
alternatively, remove both identity fields if the test is intended to cover
orphan cleanup, then retain the soft-deletion assertion.

Signed-off-by: Kun Zhao <kunzhao@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kun Zhao <kunzhao@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kun Zhao <kunzhao@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kun Zhao <kunzhao@nvidia.com>
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