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[https://nvbugs/6801108][fix] Set NCCL env vars before ncclGetUniqueId in getComm - #19780

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Forward-port of #19596, which was merged into release/1.3, to main.

getComm() currently updates NCCL environment variables after getUniqueId() starts the NCCL bootstrap thread. A concurrent setenv() can reallocate the environment while that thread reads it, causing an intermittent root-rank crash and leaving the other ranks waiting in bootstrap.

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getComm() now applies the existing NCCL environment updates before getUniqueId(), which can start NCCL’s bootstrap thread. The Windows and non-Windows settings retain their no-overwrite behavior, and the non-Windows NVLS fallback remains conditional on fabric usability. No public API or communicator initialization changes are reported. C++ build and GPU/NCCL runtime tests were not run for this forward-port.

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  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp: Verify that NCCL environment updates occur before getUniqueId() and that existing environment values and the conditional NVLS fallback remain effective. Runtime validation was not run for this forward-port.

…d in getComm

getComm() called setenv() for NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT, NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER
and NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE after getUniqueId(). On the group root,
ncclGetUniqueId() starts NCCL's bootstrap root thread, and since NCCL
2.30.7 that thread calls getenv() the first time it uses
ncclSocketDefaultMagic(). setenv() is not thread-safe: adding a variable
can reallocate environ while the bootstrap thread is scanning it. The
root rank then occasionally crashed with SIGSEGV and the remaining ranks
waited forever in NCCL bootstrap, which showed up as a hang in the TTP
cases of test_configurable_moe_multi_gpu.

Move the environment updates before getUniqueId(), matching the order
already used by NcclCommunicator::createComm().

Signed-off-by: xxi <xxi@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2013007)
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
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getComm now configures NCCL environment variables before obtaining the communicator unique ID. The communicator initialization paths remain unchanged.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure NCCL before bootstrap
cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp
getComm sets the relevant NCCL environment variables before calling getUniqueId. The previous setup after communicator allocation is removed. On Windows, two variables are set only when unset. On other platforms, those variables are set without overwriting existing values, and NVLS is disabled when the NVLS fabric is unusable, unless explicitly configured.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: bowenfu, wanli-jiang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 13b01

Concurrent communicator initialization can still fail or hang during NCCL bootstrap when NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER is unset. Synchronize the process-wide environment setup across both paths before merging.

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Review comments at @cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:
- Around line 107-109: Share NCCL environment initialization between getComm and
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FYI, this also resolves https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6782224. Thanks!

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LGTM

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Thanks @SimengLiu-nv , @allisonlim-nv !

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