Add a new nvidia-gpu-services.target to ensure proper startup order

deployments/systemd/README.md

@@ -39,10 +39,17 @@ because it runs a container with `go` in it to download and build the latest
 `nvidia-mig-parted` before installing it. We plan to relax this requirement in
 the near future.
 
+**Note:** When the `nvidia-mig-manager.service` is installed, an additional target,
+`nvidia-gpu-reset.target` is also installed. This new target is used to ensure the
+`nvidia-mig-manager.service` is started after the `nvidia-fabricmanager.service` and 
+`nvidia-persistenced`. In addition, this target allows applications like dcgm and nvsm
+to be started only after the `nvidia-mig-manager.service` has started.
+
 The following files will be added as part of this installation:
 
 * `/usr/bin/nvidia-mig-parted`
 * `/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-mig-manager.service`
+* `/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-gpu-reset.target.service`
 * `/etc/systemd/system/nvidia-mig-manager.service.d/override.conf`
 * `/etc/profile.d/nvidia-mig-parted.sh`
 * `/etc/nvidia-mig-manager/utils.sh`

deployments/systemd/install.sh

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 SERVICE_ROOT="nvidia-mig-manager"
 SERVICE_NAME="${SERVICE_ROOT}.service"
 
+GPU_TARGET_ROOT="nvidia-gpu-services"
+GPU_TARGET_NAME="${GPU_TARGET_ROOT}.target"
+
 MIG_PARTED_NAME="nvidia-mig-parted"
 MIG_PARTED_GO_GET_PATH="github.com/NVIDIA/mig-parted/cmd/${MIG_PARTED_NAME}"
 
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@ ${DOCKER} run --rm \
 	"
 
 cp ${SERVICE_NAME}       ${SYSTEMD_DIR}
+cp ${GPU_TARGET_NAME}    ${SYSTEMD_DIR}
 cp ${MIG_PARTED_NAME}.sh ${PROFILED_DIR}
 cp override.conf         ${OVERRIDE_DIR}
 cp service.sh            ${CONFIG_DIR}
@@ -62,6 +66,7 @@ cp hooks-minimal.yaml    ${CONFIG_DIR}
 cp config-default.yaml    ${CONFIG_DIR}
 
 chmod a+r ${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${SERVICE_NAME}
+chmod a+r ${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${GPU_TARGET_NAME}
 chmod a+r ${PROFILED_DIR}/${MIG_PARTED_NAME}.sh
 chmod a+r ${OVERRIDE_DIR}/override.conf
 chmod a+r ${CONFIG_DIR}/service.sh

deployments/systemd/nvidia-gpu-reset.target

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Nvidia GPU System Target

deployments/systemd/nvidia-mig-manager.service

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Configure MIG on NVIDIA GPUs
 DefaultDependencies=no
-After=sysinit.target local-fs.target
-Before=basic.target nvidia-persistenced.service systemd-resolved.service
+After=nvidia-persistenced.service nvidia-fabricmanager.service
+Before=nvidia-gpu-services.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=oneshot
 ExecStart=-/bin/bash /etc/nvidia-mig-manager/service.sh
 
 [Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
+WantedBy=nvidia-gpu-services.target

deployments/systemd/uninstall.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 SERVICE_ROOT="nvidia-mig-manager"
 SERVICE_NAME="${SERVICE_ROOT}.service"
 
+GPU_TARGET_ROOT="nvidia-gpu-services"
+GPU_TARGET_NAME="${GPU_TARGET_ROOT}.target"
+
 MIG_PARTED_NAME="nvidia-mig-parted"
 MIG_PARTED_GO_GET_PATH="github.com/NVIDIA/mig-parted/cmd/${MIG_PARTED_NAME}"
 
@@ -36,4 +39,5 @@ rm -rf ${OVERRIDE_DIR}
 
 rm ${BINARY_DIR}/${MIG_PARTED_NAME}
 rm ${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${SERVICE_NAME}
+rm ${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${GPU_TARGET_NAME}
 rm ${PROFILED_DIR}/${MIG_PARTED_NAME}.sh