[CI/Build] VLM Test Consolidation (#9372)

Signed-off-by: Alex-Brooks <Alex.Brooks@ibm.com>

tests/utils.py

@@ -561,12 +561,11 @@ def fork_new_process_for_each_test(
     return wrapper
 
 
-def large_gpu_test(*, min_gb: int):
-    """
-    Decorate a test to be skipped if no GPU is available or it does not have
-    sufficient memory.
-
-    Currently, the CI machine uses L4 GPU which has 24 GB VRAM.
+def large_gpu_mark(min_gb: int) -> pytest.MarkDecorator:
+    """Gets a pytest skipif mark, which triggers ig the the device doesn't have
+    meet a minimum memory requirement in gb; can be leveraged via 
+    @large_gpu_test to skip tests in environments without enough resources, or
+    called when filtering tests to run directly.
     """
     try:
         if current_platform.is_cpu():
@@ -578,14 +577,23 @@ def large_gpu_test(*, min_gb: int):
             f"An error occurred when finding the available memory: {e}",
             stacklevel=2,
         )
-
         memory_gb = 0
 
-    test_skipif = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    return pytest.mark.skipif(
         memory_gb < min_gb,
         reason=f"Need at least {memory_gb}GB GPU memory to run the test.",
     )
 
+
+def large_gpu_test(*, min_gb: int):
+    """
+    Decorate a test to be skipped if no GPU is available or it does not have
+    sufficient memory.
+
+    Currently, the CI machine uses L4 GPU which has 24 GB VRAM.
+    """
+    test_skipif = large_gpu_mark(min_gb)
+
     def wrapper(f: Callable[_P, None]) -> Callable[_P, None]:
         return test_skipif(f)