[dpdk-ci] Minutes of DPDK Lab Meeting, August 28th

[dpdk-ci] Minutes of DPDK Lab Meeting, August 28th

[O'Driscoll, Tim]

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Dashboard:
- Intel IXGBE (10Gbps) results still show occasional performance degradation when there shouldn't be any. Lijuan is unable to reproduce the problem in our lab.
- Lijuan has enabled the re-run option on the DTS so that it will run up to 3 times if there's a failure. To verify that this solves the problem, we need to re-run the tests on IXGBE for the last 1-2 weeks' patches. Jeremy will work on this.
- Zhaoyan will work with Jeremy to do some basic tests on the IXGBE system to verify that basic functionality is OK on the system.
- Larry and Zhaoyan are visiting UNH IOL on Thursday. If the problem hasn't been resolved by then they'll do further debug then.
- Ali has been reviewing the Mellanox results and everything looks stable. We'll need confirmation from Erez that Mellanox are OK to make the relative performance data public.
- NXP hardware has arrived in the lab and Shreyansh is working with Jeremy on setting it up.
- We hope to have relative performance data for Intel and Mellanox publically available before the Userspace event so that we can announce it then.

Userspace Event:
- Lijuan and Jeremy are presenting on CI and the open lab. They'll review slides to make sure they're giving a consistent message.

Contract:
- This has been extended to the end of 2018. Later this year we'll need to look at extending it again for 2019.