Community CI Meeting Minutes - December 22nd, 2022

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

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December 22, 2022

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Attendees

1. Patrick Robb
2. Juraj Linkeš
3. Lincoln Lavoie
4. Owen Hilyard

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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


* Tech board voting on Community Lab 2023 work is completed and the final
2023 SOW document for the lab is finished
* The UNH lab is working with the Linux Foundation to provide some
materials to help publicize the lab’s work. Lincoln has provided some
updated slides for the Golden Deck, and Patrick will write a blog post in
January about recent developments in the lab and where we want to push to
expand what we can provide in the future.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* We have reviewed our updates to our internal community lab scripts and
are rebuilding our container images/testing abi internally. We have hit a
couple snags due to changes we’ve made since we last had abi testing
online, but are working through them.
   * We added the IPSec library to some containers recently for ZUC/Snow3G
testing - this is causing failures when building some old LTS releases on
Debian. We are troubleshooting this but may bring ABI testing online
without abi testing on debian with the 20.11 and 21.11 LTS releases while
we continue to troubleshoot this problem.
* Crypto vdev PMD testing pipelines working properly internally - will be
in production pending approval of a current merge request
* The Ampere Altra’s raid controller did arrive and is now installed. The
system is stable and we are adding testing and monitoring results
internally - to be brought to production in January.
   * Juraj requested that this test bed run an aarch32 cross compilation
and provided a set of requested unit tests to be performed. Owen is going
to touch base with Juraj about how best to provide this.
   * One option would be to do this testing with the new aarm64 container
test runners, which could also do the aarch32 cross compile. The incentive
here is to allow the Ampere server to primarily do NIC performance testing,
and move other testing to VMs test runners.
   * It’s important to run this testing on a system with an industry
“standard” processor for DPDK applications - Altra system is most
preferred, though a Thunderx2 might also work
* The lab had a temporary infrastructure failure on unit tests this week
due to hugepages misconfiguration on one of our test running agents. This
is now resolved and will be avoided in the future by setting this setting
with our automated provisioning system. Failed patches that were tested on
December 19 - 20 are being retested on Friday afternoon so as to avoid
delays today and tomorrow for new patch series.

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Intel Lab
* N/A

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Loongarch Lab
* N/A

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Github Actions
* N/A

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* N/A

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Any other business
* Next meeting is January 4 - we are mostly shutdown for the holidays in
the interim

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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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