TS-Factory ethdev testing on cx5

TS-Factory ethdev testing on cx5

[Patrick Robb]

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Hi Ali,

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

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