When a targeted_power attempt is cancelled (e.g. after sw_thermal
throttle), nv-hostengine holds the diagnostic slot asynchronously.
The next attempt immediately received DCGM_ST_IN_USE (exit 222)
and incorrectly derated the power limit.
Now: exit 222 is detected via isDCGMResourceBusy and triggers an
exponential back-off retry at the same power limit (1s, 2s, 4s, …
up to 256s). Once the back-off delay would exceed 300s the
calibration fails, indicating the slot is persistently held.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Michael Chus
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