##################################################################### April 13, 2023 Attendees 1. Patrick Robb 2. Lincoln Lavoie 3. Juraj Linkeš 4. Aaron Conole 5. Ali Alnubani 6. Adam Hassick 7. Honnappa Nagarahalli
##################################################################### Agenda 1. General Announcements 2. CI Status 3. DTS Improvements & Test Development 4. Any other business
===================================================================== General Announcements * None
===================================================================== CI Status
--------------------------------------------------------------------- UNH-IOL Community Lab * ABI Testing: Our new container images with the new references are built and in production. We are maintaining the use of xml comparison for LTS ABI testing, and using the new .so abidiff approach for DPDK main. * Intel will be donating a new server to the lab (with gen 4.0 pci-e ports). * This will allow for “full” performance testing for the E810, the NIC requested by Intel for the NIC hardware refresh. If we get the NIC earlier than we get our hands on the new server, we will run testing on it at limited capacity on our existing Intel test bed. * NIC hardware refresh: How will requests from companies who dont produce NICs or servers be supported at the lab? Can they go into existing servers donated by other companies? * UNH will try to be flexible on this front while also honoring the requests and needs of the companies who donated the servers * We can’t do anything like this without the OK from the company who purchased the server * Some NICs have extensive performance tuning on the servers, others don’t really * Lincoln has put together the full list of devices to be ordered and is considering these questions, will be following up with the Gov board with these plans * Distro testing coverage: * X86 * Alpine compile jobs are back in production * Will add Fedora 37, Rhel 9 * Will drop Fedora 35 (EOL) * Arm * Will add Ubuntu 22.04, Opensuse-Leap15, Rhel 9 * FIPS ACVP tool: Ali provided an ACK on this patch series. Pending a question about patch formatting this will be merged to dpdk-ci by Thomas/Aaron * Aaron is following up with Thomas about getting commit access for the dpdk-ci repo * Aarch32 on ARM: We have dry run this internally * Use arm32 bit SoC for compiling * Malloc_perturb can be disabled * ARM will have access to our GitLab for updating the set of tests being run * Broadcom25G on ARM: Information has been shared with ARM so they can try to replicate this perf testing * Aaron would like to see all the times in the past 6 months when patches which were marked as failing was merged anyways. He is interested in suggesting to the tech board that the maintainers should be more vigilant about checking CI before merging. * This happened with a patch which broke windows compile jobs recently * This vigilance could also prevent situations like the one from 2 weeks back when a patch was merged which broke ABI testing at the lab * Ideally the lab’s results would act as a “gate” on merging
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Github Actions * Recently identified a limitation with how their polling scripts work. They’re trying to fix the way they treat patch descriptions because they have observed some issues with their scripts. Nothing has been affected on the dpdk side so far, but they have a plan, it just needs to be implemented. * Deployed change to using events API, but NTP information was unstable on the system they were using, which caused missing some patches. This change has been reverted for now, pending migration planning. Will keep the community appraised of the situation. The events API should work fine after the migration with working NTP on the new systems.
===================================================================== DTS Improvements & Test Development * Jeremy will submit a smoke test RFC today. * TG Abstraction RFC is being worked on, would prefer some more time before sending it out to the community. * Honnappa, Jeremy and Juraj will work on the proposal email to the community offline.
===================================================================== Any other business * Next meeting is April 27th
