As discussed in the CI meetings, one of the 2023 work items for the Community Lab is to explore running the TS-Factory testing framework for DPDK ethdev tests. Ideally this will greatly expand our test coverage in the lab. 

So, we have run this using cx5 nics on some dev servers and are happy with the results. In production, we would run this on a periodic basis on as much hardware as possible, and post the results to a page on the Community Lab dashboard. 

Now that we are happy with how the ts-factory runs on the cx5 NIC on dev servers, the next step is to set it up on Nvidia's production servers here. I would like to schedule a whole business day of downtime for the Nvidia servers so that we can run the testing framework, check that the results are as expected, then run DTS and verify there is no unexpected conflict, etc. 

Is this acceptable to you? If so, a Tuesday or Thursday would work best for us. Would either this Thursday, or next Tuesday be fine? 

Thanks,

Patrick