nfd-master: fix retry of node updates

This patch addresses issues with slow node status (extended resources)
updates. Previously we did just a few retries in quick succession which
could result in the node update failing, just because node status was
updated slower than our retry window. The patch mitigates the issue by
increasing the number of tries to 15. In addition, it creates a
ratelimiter with a longer per-item (per-node) base delay.

The patch also fixes the e2e-tests to expose the issue.

pkg/nfd-master/node-updater-pool.go

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ package nfdmaster
 
 import (
 	"sync"
+	"time"
 
+	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/util/workqueue"
 	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
 )
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ func (u *nodeUpdaterPool) processNodeUpdateRequest(queue workqueue.RateLimitingI
 
 	nodeUpdateRequests.Inc()
 	if err := u.nfdMaster.nfdAPIUpdateOneNode(nodeName.(string)); err != nil {
-		if queue.NumRequeues(nodeName) < 5 {
+		if queue.NumRequeues(nodeName) < 15 {
 			klog.InfoS("retrying node update", "nodeName", nodeName)
 			queue.AddRateLimited(nodeName)
 			return true
@@ -77,7 +79,14 @@ func (u *nodeUpdaterPool) start(parallelism int) {
 	}
 
 	klog.InfoS("starting the NFD master node updater pool", "parallelism", parallelism)
-	u.queue = workqueue.NewRateLimitingQueue(workqueue.DefaultControllerRateLimiter())
+
+	// Create ratelimiter. Mimic workqueue.DefaultControllerRateLimiter() but
+	// with modified per-item (node) rate limiting parameters.
+	rl := workqueue.NewMaxOfRateLimiter(
+		workqueue.NewItemExponentialFailureRateLimiter(50*time.Millisecond, 100*time.Second),
+		&workqueue.BucketRateLimiter{Limiter: rate.NewLimiter(rate.Limit(10), 100)},
+	)
+	u.queue = workqueue.NewRateLimitingQueue(rl)
 
 	for i := 0; i < parallelism; i++ {
 		u.wg.Add(1)

test/e2e/gomega.go

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ type k8sAnnotations map[string]string
 func eventuallyNonControlPlaneNodes(ctx context.Context, cli clientset.Interface) AsyncAssertion {
 	return Eventually(func(g Gomega, ctx context.Context) ([]corev1.Node, error) {
 		return getNonControlPlaneNodes(ctx, cli)
-	}).WithPolling(1 * time.Second).WithTimeout(10 * time.Second).WithContext(ctx)
+	}).WithPolling(1 * time.Second).WithTimeout(20 * time.Second).WithContext(ctx)
 }
 
 // MatchLabels returns a specialized Gomega matcher for checking if a list of

test/e2e/node_feature_discovery_test.go

@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ core:
 					Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
 
 					By("Verfiying node status capacity from NodeFeatureRules #4")
+					expectedCapacity = map[string]corev1.ResourceList{"*": {}}
 					eventuallyNonControlPlaneNodes(ctx, f.ClientSet).Should(MatchCapacity(expectedCapacity, nodes, false))
 
 					By("Deleting nfd-worker daemonset")