Community CI meeting - November 10, 2022

Community CI meeting - November 10, 2022

[Patrick Robb]

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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

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Github Actions
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Owen wants to poll the community for any preference for the distro of the
container which runs DTS. It should be free, support new python versions,
and must support every cpu that DPDK does. No feedback given during the
meeting, but Ubuntu and Alpine both sound like viable options and DTS WG
will make a decision.

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Any other business
* Next CI meeting: December 8th, 2022

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Patrick Robb

Technical Service Manager

UNH InterOperability Laboratory

21 Madbury Rd, Suite 100, Durham, NH 03824

www.iol.unh.edu

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