skip mdev-mode GPUs in waitForVFs

Signed-off-by: Karthik Vetrivel <kvetrivel@nvidia.com>

Author: karthikvetrivel

cmd/nvidia-validator/main.go

@@ -1747,9 +1747,9 @@ func (v *VGPUManager) validate() error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	log.Info("Waiting for VFs to be available...")
-	if err := waitForVFs(ctx, defaultVFWaitTimeout); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("vGPU Manager VFs not ready: %w", err)
+	log.Info("Waiting for parent devices to be available...")
+	if err := waitForParentDevices(ctx, defaultVFWaitTimeout); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("vGPU Manager parent devices not ready: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	statusFile := vGPUManagerStatusFile
@@ -1783,43 +1783,66 @@ func (v *VGPUManager) runValidation(silent bool) (hostDriver bool, err error) {
 	return hostDriver, runCommand(command, args, silent)
 }
 
-// waitForVFs waits for Virtual Functions to be created on all NVIDIA GPUs.
-// It polls sriov_numvfs until all GPUs have their full VF count enabled.
-func waitForVFs(ctx context.Context, timeout time.Duration) error {
+// waitForParentDevices polls until the vGPU stack is ready — either NVIDIA
+// mdev parent devices have been registered (PF on Turing, VFs on Ampere+
+// SR-IOV) or all SR-IOV VFs are enabled.
+func waitForParentDevices(ctx context.Context, timeout time.Duration) error {
 	pollInterval := time.Duration(sleepIntervalSecondsFlag) * time.Second
-	nvpciLib := nvpci.New()
 
 	return wait.PollUntilContextTimeout(ctx, pollInterval, timeout, true, func(ctx context.Context) (bool, error) {
-		gpus, err := nvpciLib.GetGPUs()
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Warnf("Error getting GPUs: %v", err)
-			return false, nil
-		}
-
-		var totalExpected, totalEnabled uint64
-		var pfCount int
-		for _, gpu := range gpus {
-			sriovInfo := gpu.SriovInfo
-			if sriovInfo.IsPF() {
-				pfCount++
-				totalExpected += sriovInfo.PhysicalFunction.TotalVFs
-				totalEnabled += sriovInfo.PhysicalFunction.NumVFs
-			}
-		}
-
-		if totalExpected == 0 {
-			log.Info("No SR-IOV capable GPUs found, skipping VF wait")
+		if mdevParentDevicesExist() || vfsExist() {
 			return true, nil
 		}
+		return false, nil
+	})
+}
 
-		if totalEnabled == totalExpected {
-			log.Infof("All %d VF(s) enabled on %d NVIDIA GPU(s)", totalEnabled, pfCount)
-			return true, nil
+func mdevParentDevicesExist() bool {
+	nvmdevLib := nvmdev.New()
+	parents, err := nvmdevLib.GetAllParentDevices()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Warnf("could not get mdev parent devices: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	if len(parents) == 0 {
+		log.Info("found 0 mdev parent devices")
+		return false
+	}
+	log.Infof("found %d mdev parent devices", len(parents))
+	return true
+}
+
+func vfsExist() bool {
+	nvpciLib := nvpci.New()
+	gpus, err := nvpciLib.GetGPUs()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Warnf("error getting GPUs: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+
+	var totalExpected, totalEnabled uint64
+	var pfCount int
+	for _, gpu := range gpus {
+		sriovInfo := gpu.SriovInfo
+		if sriovInfo.IsPF() {
+			pfCount++
+			totalExpected += sriovInfo.PhysicalFunction.TotalVFs
+			totalEnabled += sriovInfo.PhysicalFunction.NumVFs
 		}
+	}
 
-		log.Infof("Waiting for VFs: %d/%d enabled across %d GPU(s)", totalEnabled, totalExpected, pfCount)
-		return false, nil
-	})
+	if totalExpected == 0 {
+		log.Info("no SR-IOV capable GPUs found")
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if totalEnabled == totalExpected {
+		log.Infof("all %d VF(s) enabled on %d NVIDIA GPU(s)", totalEnabled, pfCount)
+		return true
+	}
+
+	log.Infof("not all VFs have been created. %d/%d enabled across %d GPU(s)", totalEnabled, totalExpected, pfCount)
+	return false
 }
 
 func (c *CCManager) validate() error {