Re: [sig-scheduling] Exception request for KEP-5229 Implementation

[Dominik Marciński]

+1

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM 'Maciej Skoczeń' via sig-scheduling <sig-sch...@kubernetes.io> wrote:

- Enhancement name:
  - Asynchronous API calls during scheduling
- Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable):
  - beta
- SIG:
  - Scheduling
- k/enhancements repo issue #:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/5229
- PR #’s:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132886
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133120 (could be merged into the first PR)
- Additional time needed (in days):
  - 5 (until Tuesday)
- Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone:
  - This KEP clearly improves kube-scheduler's performance when processing unschedulable pods. Future enhancements to kube-scheduler (1.35+) plan to rely on this mechanism to not block the scheduler when sending new API calls.
- Risks from adding code late: (to k8s stability, testing, etc.)
  - This enhancement is guarded by the feature gate and modifies only one component (kube-scheduler). Kube-scheduler is well covered by tests, and PR keeps that coverage for the enhancement, so the risk is considered low.
- Risks from cutting enhancement: (partial implementation, critical customer usecase, etc.)
  - Unschedulable pods processing will still rely on a blocking API call, reducing the performance visibly in large clusters.

 The delay was caused by limited availability of SIG Scheduling approvers in this release cycle.

Thanks for your consideration,
Maciej

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[Maciej Skoczeń]

[Vyom Yadav]

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: 02:00 UTC 30 July.
If you need any clarification, please feel free to reach out to us in the #sig-release Slack channel.

Thanks,
Vyom Yadav
v1.34 Release Team Lead

[0] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C2C40FMNF/p1753550730021029