Change:
shouldSchedule = false case *predicates.PredicateFailureError: var emitEvent bool <del> // we try to partition predicates into two partitions here: intentional on the part of the operator and not. </del> switch reason { <del> // intentional case predicates.ErrNodeSelectorNotMatch, predicates.ErrPodNotMatchHostName, predicates.ErrNodeLabelPresenceViolated, // this one is probably intentional since it's a workaround for not having // pod hard anti affinity. predicates.ErrPodNotFitsHostPorts, // DaemonSet is expected to respect taints and tolerations predicates.ErrTaintsTolerationsNotMatch: wantToRun, shouldSchedule, shouldContinueRunning = false, false, false // unintentional </del> <ins> // unintentional predicates reasons need to be fired out to event. </ins> case predicates.ErrDiskConflict, predicates.ErrVolumeZoneConflict,

Discussion:
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DaemonSet controller will run predicates to check if node should run daemon pod. In the progress of predicates, it will check if pod fits resources first before other predicates such as PodSelectorMatches. /cc
I think this bug appeared when critical pods were introduced and order of checking predicates changed. The event is useless for daemonsets in current situation :/ I'm not sure if there is a clean way to fix it.
I feel like a clean solution would be to look at the predicate reasons twice. The first time you look at the reasons and keep track if any are not intentional. If all of the reasons are intentional then skip checking the reasons.
actually just changing the order of checks in GeneralPredicates may just work. I'm testing the fix now.
Ok, GeneralPredicates returns all reasons. Error that pod doesn't match the node is also returned but because it's "intentional" there is no event for it.

The event "Node didn't have enough resource" should be sent only when there are no other "intentional" reasons.
Yes, I think maybe we need to check reason list twice: check is in tail of predicate list.
/cc
any PR for this? If not, I can help
I will have some time to work on it next week. If you have a spare time you can create a PR.
/assign