Extension for KEP 5598: Opportunistic batching PR

[Brandon Salmon]

Enhancement name: KEP 5598: Opportunistic Batching
Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable): beta
SIG: sig-scheduling
k/enhancements repo issue #5598
PR #’s: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135231, which is a roll up of two previous PRs which have been out and under review for nearly 2 weeks.
Additional time needed (in calendar days, due end of day AoE): Nov 12 (Wednesday)
Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone: Critical pre-work and engagment for gang scheduling, which will be coming in 1.36. Code is written and tested, but would like to do at least one more round of reviews.
Risks from adding code late: (to k8s stability, testing, etc.) Low, there are changes to the scheduling code but they are feature gated and have been through multiple rounds of reviews and testing.
Risks from cutting enhancement: (partial implementation, critical customer usecase, etc.): If we do not release we will be missing customer and technical engagement with multi-pod scheduling when it becomes necessary to implement it fully in 1.36.

 Brandon Salmon

[Dominik Marciński]

+1

I confirm that this is critical part of sig-scheduling delivery. The code was ready within the code freeze and mainly the integration tests were missing.

[Drew Hagen]

Hi all,

The release team is APPROVING this exception request based on the discussion in the Slack thread[0]. Your updated deadline to merge code+test PRs for this KEP is: end of Day AoE Wednesday Nov 12th / 12:00 UTC  Nov 13th.
If you need any clarification, please feel free to reach out to us in the #sig-release Slack channel.

Thanks,
Drew Hagen
v1.35 Release Team Lead

[0] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF/p1762738148939229