November 10, 2022

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Attendees

1. Patrick Robb
2. Honnappa Nagarahalli
3. Lincoln Lavoie
4. Lijuan Tu
5. Juraj Linkes
6. Ali Alnubani
7. Adam Hassick
8. Jeremy Spewock

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Agenda

1. General Announcements
2. CI Status
3. DTS Improvements & Test Development
4. Any other business

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* None

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CI Status

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General
* Loongson is intending to publish their own CI testing results by running a dashboard website based on the UNH dashboard. UNH-IOL is in the process of making major revisions to the dashboard currently, but one idea for a “next step” after completing our current goals could be to build an interface for external labs to submit their results to our dashboard. This could help alleviate the overhead for future organizations wanting to stand up CI testing. Is there any interest in this from the community? Lijuan repeated her interest in this API access - the UNH team will figure out whether this is feasible once the current dashboard development tasks are complete.

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* Testing for LTS stable staging branches is set up. It will run once per push to *-staging branches at https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk-stable and publishes results on the dpdkdashboard periodic testing page.
* Arch Linux badge is live and integrated into the Patchwork website.
* Community Lab team members are currently working on bringing the Ampere Altra (aarch64) test bed online.
* Ccache has been causing some bugs as it is not differentiating between distros. In the short term we will disable it, which will increase compile testing duration. The long term fix is to move to a centralized cache which differentiates by image hash.
* Would it be acceptable for the Community Lab to use a faster linker than GNU ld during compile jobs, such as GNU Gold or LLVM lld? Do any community members have any concerns with this kind of change? Should we stick to a DPDK “norm?” - No objections raised.

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Intel Lab
* Intel has finished baseline functional testing for branches - sending out a report per update on branches