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What this PR does

Replaces the hardcoded "vllm-model" that BuildInferenceServiceArgs passed as
--api-model-name with the name the engine actually serves the model under, read from the
running engine pods.

Resolution order:

  1. --served-model-name from the engine pods' container argv, accepting both --flag value
    and --flag=value. vLLM accepts several names for one model and reports the first back to
    clients, so the first is the one used.
  2. Otherwise --model (vLLM) or --model-path (SGLang), expanded against the container's own
    environment — OME runtime templates point these at $(MODEL_PATH), so the raw argument is a
    placeholder rather than the value the engine sees. This mirrors what both engines do
    themselves when --served-model-name is absent.
  3. Otherwise an error naming the InferenceService and the flags that were looked for, instead of
    guessing.

The value is read from the pods rather than from the ServingRuntime or the InferenceService
because --served-model-name can be set on either one — runtimes normally carry it, while an
InferenceService may override the runner — and only the pod reflects the two merged. Reading
either spec on its own silently misses the other. The benchmark controller already holds list
permission on pods, so this needs no RBAC change.

Why we need it

--api-model-name becomes the model field of every request genai-bench sends. vLLM rejects a
name it does not serve, so a runtime whose --served-model-name is anything other than the
literal vllm-model fails on every single request.

The failure is silent, which is what makes it costly: the pod exits 0, the BenchmarkJob reports
Completed, and a full set of result files and plots is written. Only num_error_requests
inside the per-run JSON reveals that nothing succeeded.

This does not affect the bundled runtimes — all 17 under config/runtimes/vllm/ serve as
vllm-model, and while the 189 under config/runtimes/srt/ do not, SGLang echoes
request.model back without validating it. What breaks is a user-defined vLLM runtime, which is
the normal case once you bring your own.

Fixes #781

How to test

Unit tests covering the resolution order and its edge cases:

$ go test -count=1 ./pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/...
ok  	sigs.k8s.io/ome/pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark	1.513s
ok  	sigs.k8s.io/ome/pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/reconcilers/job	2.863s
ok  	sigs.k8s.io/ome/pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils	2.278s

$ go test ./pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/... -run TestResolveServedModelName -v
--- PASS: TestResolveServedModelName
    first_of_several_served_model_names_wins
    equals_form_is_accepted
    falls_back_to_--model_with_$(VAR)_expanded
    falls_back_to_SGLang_--model-path
    a_flag_directly_after_--served-model-name_is_not_its_value
    pods_of_other_inference_services_are_ignored
    no_engine_pods_is_an_error
    engine_pod_naming_no_model_is_an_error

End to end: deploy an InferenceService on a vLLM runtime whose --served-model-name is not
vllm-model, run a BenchmarkJob against it, and check the generated Job's args. Before this
change they carry --api-model-name vllm-model and every request 404s while the job still
reports Completed; after it they carry the served name and the requests succeed.

That vLLM rejects an unserved name is directly observable — against a server started with
--served-model-name qwen2-5-0-5b-instruct vllm-model:

qwen2-5-0-5b-instruct -> 200 OK
vllm-model            -> 200 OK
not-a-real-name       -> 404 {"object":"error","message":"The model `not-a-real-name` does not exist.","type":"NotFoundError","code":404}

Checklist

  • Tests added/updated (if applicable)
  • Docs updated (if applicable) — N/A, no user-facing API or behaviour to document beyond the fix itself
  • make test — did not run the full target: pkg/xet needs its Rust bindings built and the
    envtest suites need /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/etcd, neither available in my environment.
    Both fail identically on a clean main, so this change introduces no new failures. I ran
    ./pkg/controller/... on a clean main and on this branch and compared: 37 ok on both,
    with the same 5 pre-existing failures on each.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Benchmark requests now use the model’s configured served name instead of a fixed default.
    • Supports served names specified through command-line options, model paths, aliases, and environment variables.
    • Improved compatibility with different engine configurations, including SGLang.
    • Added clearer error handling when model information cannot be determined or engine details are unavailable.

BuildInferenceServiceArgs passed the literal string "vllm-model" as
--api-model-name, which becomes the `model` field of every request
genai-bench sends. vLLM rejects a name it does not serve, so a runtime
whose --served-model-name is anything else fails on every request.

The failure is silent, which is what makes it costly: the pod exits 0,
the BenchmarkJob reports Completed, and a full set of result files and
plots is written. Only num_error_requests in the per-run JSON reveals
that nothing succeeded.

Resolve the name from the running engine pods instead.
--served-model-name may be set on the ServingRuntime or overridden on
the InferenceService, and only the pod reflects the two merged, so
reading either spec on its own silently misses the other. When no
container names the model, fall back to --model / --model-path expanded
against the container environment, matching what vLLM and SGLang
themselves do when --served-model-name is absent.

The benchmark controller already holds list permission on pods, so no
RBAC change is needed.

Fixes ome-projects#781

Signed-off-by: weetime <351075478@qq.com>
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Walkthrough

The benchmark controller now derives --api-model-name from the InferenceService engine pod. It supports served-model aliases, model fallbacks, command-line flag variants, environment expansion, pod filtering, and resolution errors. Tests cover utility behavior and generated benchmark arguments.

Changes

Served model resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve the engine model name
pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/utils.go
Benchmark argument construction resolves the model name from labeled engine pods. Parsing supports --served-model-name, --model, --model-path, equals-form flags, and container environment references.
Validate benchmark integration
pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/utils_test.go, pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/controller_test.go
Tests cover model resolution, aliases, fallbacks, environment expansion, pod filtering, error cases, and the generated --api-model-name argument.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 38de5

The change can still resolve an incorrect or unresolved served model name when environment references depend on other variables or when stale engine pods are present, causing generated benchmark requests to fail; merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BenchmarkJob
  participant BuildInferenceServiceArgs
  participant KubernetesClient
  participant EnginePod
  BenchmarkJob->>BuildInferenceServiceArgs: Build benchmark arguments
  BuildInferenceServiceArgs->>KubernetesClient: List labeled InferenceService engine pods
  KubernetesClient-->>BuildInferenceServiceArgs: Return engine pod command and environment
  BuildInferenceServiceArgs->>EnginePod: Parse model flags and expand environment
  EnginePod-->>BuildInferenceServiceArgs: Return served model name
  BuildInferenceServiceArgs-->>BenchmarkJob: Set --api-model-name
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In `@pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/utils.go`:
- Around line 193-199: Update expandContainerEnv to resolve environment
variables in declaration order, expanding each variable’s value using previously
resolved declarations so dependent references such as MODEL_PATH resolve
correctly. Preserve Kubernetes escaping semantics by ensuring escaped references
using $$ remain literal, and add regression coverage for dependent expansion and
escaped references.
- Around line 145-150: Update the pod-selection logic surrounding flagValue to
ignore pods with DeletionTimestamp set, a non-Running Status.Phase, or PodReady
not True before scanning containers. Preserve the existing model-name extraction
for eligible pods, and add a regression test covering a stale matching pod
before the current ready pod.
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for _, pod := range pods.Items {
for _, container := range pod.Spec.Containers {
argv := append(append([]string{}, container.Command...), container.Args...)

if name := flagValue(argv, servedModelNameFlag); name != "" {
return name, nil

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start = utils.index("func resolveServedModelName")
end = utils.index("\n}\n\n// flagValue", start) + 2
resolver = utils[start:end]

assert "for _, pod := range pods.Items" in resolver
loop_body = resolver[resolver.index("for _, pod := range pods.Items"):]
assert "DeletionTimestamp" not in loop_body
assert "PodRunning" not in loop_body
assert "PodReady" not in loop_body

# Model the current first-match behavior for two selector-matching pods.
pods = [
    {"phase": "Running", "deleting": True, "argv": ["--served-model-name", "stale"]},
    {"phase": "Running", "deleting": False, "argv": ["--served-model-name", "current"]},
]
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start = utils.index("func resolveServedModelName")
end = utils.index("\n}\n\n// flagValue", start) + 2
resolver = utils[start:end]

assert "for _, pod := range pods.Items" in resolver
assert "DeletionTimestamp" not in resolver
assert "PodRunning" not in resolver
assert "PodReady" not in resolver
assert "if name := flagValue(argv, servedModelNameFlag)" in resolver

# The implementation returns the first matching served-model flag
# without considering phase or deletion state.
pods = [
    {"phase": "Running", "deleting": True, "argv": ["--served-model-name", "stale"]},
    {"phase": "Running", "deleting": False, "argv": ["--served-model-name", "current"]},
]
selected = next(
    pod["argv"][i + 1]
    for pod in pods
    for i, arg in enumerate(pod["argv"][:-1])
    if arg == "--served-model-name"
)
assert selected == "stale"

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# not for a particular PodReady condition.
assert "if !isvc.Status.IsReady()" in controller
assert "PodReady" not in controller

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Select a serving engine pod.

Skip pods with DeletionTimestamp set, Status.Phase != v1.PodRunning, or PodReady != True before scanning containers. The current selector includes old and replacement pods, so the first match can return a stale model name. Add a regression test with a stale pod and a current ready pod.

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In `@pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/utils.go` around lines 145 - 150,
Update the pod-selection logic surrounding flagValue to ignore pods with
DeletionTimestamp set, a non-Running Status.Phase, or PodReady not True before
scanning containers. Preserve the existing model-name extraction for eligible
pods, and add a regression test covering a stale matching pod before the current
ready pod.

Comment on lines +193 to +199
func expandContainerEnv(value string, env []v1.EnvVar) string {
for _, envVar := range env {
if envVar.Value == "" {
continue
}
value = strings.ReplaceAll(value, "$("+envVar.Name+")", envVar.Value)
}

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In Kubernetes, the command and args fields support variable expansion using the $(VAR_NAME) syntax [1][2]. This expansion is performed by the Kubernetes kubelet, not by a shell [3]. For this expansion to work: 1. The environment variable must be defined within the container's environment (e.g., via the env field or Downward API) before or within the same container specification [4][2][5]. 2. Order matters: If one environment variable references another, the referenced variable must be defined earlier in the list [2][6]. Escaping Variable Expansion: To use a literal $(VAR_NAME) string without triggering expansion, you can use a double dollar sign: $$(VAR_NAME) [1][2][6]. Important Nuances: - The behavior of the double dollar sign is literal replacement: any occurrence of $$ is replaced with a single $ [7][8][9]. This occurs regardless of whether it precedes a valid variable reference [10][8]. - Because this expansion happens at the Kubernetes level (not inside a shell), standard shell-based variable expansion (e.g., $VAR or ${VAR}) will not work within command or args unless you explicitly invoke a shell, such as by setting command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"] and providing the command string as an argument [1][2]. - If a reference to an undefined variable is used (e.g., $(UNDEFINED)), the reference typically remains as literal text rather than being replaced by an empty string [2][6].

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Match Kubernetes environment expansion semantics.

expandContainerEnv does not resolve dependent environment values or preserve escaped references. For example, MODEL_PATH=$(MODEL_ROOT)/model remains unresolved, and $$(MODEL_PATH) is expanded incorrectly.

Resolve direct environment values in declaration order, then apply Kubernetes-compatible $$ escaping. Add regression cases for both behaviors.

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In `@pkg/controller/v1beta1/benchmark/utils/utils.go` around lines 193 - 199,
Update expandContainerEnv to resolve environment variables in declaration order,
expanding each variable’s value using previously resolved declarations so
dependent references such as MODEL_PATH resolve correctly. Preserve Kubernetes
escaping semantics by ensuring escaped references using $$ remain literal, and
add regression coverage for dependent expansion and escaped references.

argv := append(append([]string{}, container.Command...), container.Args...)

if name := flagValue(argv, servedModelNameFlag); name != "" {
return name, nil

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nit.
--served-model-name isn't expanded here, but the --model fallback below is.

Three bundled runtimes pass it through an env var — config/runtimes/vllm/llama-3-1-8b-instruct-rt.yaml:58, llama-3-3-70b-instruct-rt.yaml:61, llama-3-3-70b-instruct-fp8-dynamic-rt.yaml:59:

- --served-model-name
- $(SERVED_MODEL_NAME)
env:
  - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
    value: "vllm-model"

flagValue returns the literal $(SERVED_MODEL_NAME), so genai-bench sends {"model": "$(SERVED_MODEL_NAME)"} and vLLM 404s every request — the same silent failure this PR fixes. These three work today only because the hardcoded vllm-model is the right answer for them.

if name := flagValue(argv, servedModelNameFlag); name != "" {
    return expandContainerEnv(name, container.Env), nil
}

Worth a test too — the existing $(VAR) case only covers the --model branch.

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pallasathena92 self-requested a review August 27, 2026 17:49
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[BUG] BenchmarkJob sends a hardcoded model name; requests 404 while the job reports Completed

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