Community CI Meeting Minutes July 7, 2022

Community CI Meeting Minutes July 7, 2022

[Lincoln Lavoie]

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July 7, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Nathan Southern
3. Owen Hilyard
4. Juraj Linkeš
5. Ali Alnubani
6. Jeremy Spewock
7. Aaron Conole
8. Michael Santana

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Agenda

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

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Minutes

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General Announcements

* Next Gov Board meeting is July 12, 2022, Lincoln / Aaron working on the
update slides for the community CI testing.
* Userspace Summit, September 6-8, 2022,
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/, call for papers
closes on July 22. September 6 will be the DPDK Hackathon, Tech Board
Meeting, and Reception.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* We have started work on turning on OpenSSL unit testing across the entire
test matrix.
   * IPSEC tests start failing instead of being skipped across a range of
distros (Ubuntu 20.04, Alpine, Arch) when an OpenSSL vdev is present
   * We would appreciate a list of other vdev tests that should be turned
on, since we have updated our wrappers around meson to allow vdevs to be
added to unit tests.
   * OpenSSL testing is tracked here:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045
* Broadcom hosts should be coming back online this week.  New hardware
install and setup completed.  This upgrades those hosts to Ubuntu 22.04.
* Lab has continued internal tech debt work on the dashboard and Jenkins
pipelines, that is the background work needed to improve the dashboard
performance and upstream the definitions of the test containers.
* Need to begin planning for hardware refresh cycles for bare-metal
infrastructure systems.  Some systems are now approaching 5 years of age.
Similarly, NIC vendors should plan for hardware refreshes of the specific
NICs. UNH will be reaching out to vendors about hardware planning over the
coming weeks.
* Mellanox systems were offline this week, because of a hardware glitch,
they should be back up early next week.
* Still need to look into better caching approaches for git clones, where
patches are applied.  Couple of discussion points, can the system do
depth-1 clones.  This will remove the git history from tarballs, which
means bisecting will not be possible in the case of regressions. Desire to
limit the load on the upstream git servers.

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Intel Lab

* No updates.

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Github Actions

* Still waiting on the go-ahead for upgrading the Jenkins infrastructure
that is driving the zero-day robot.  Setup is running on an old version of
RHEL, so a base OS is required.  Waiting on lab logistics.
* Aaron is looking into updating the system to apply the patches onto the
branches other than the main dpdk.

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Test Development

* The DTS Working Group would appreciate feedback on
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23695
   * A V2 is in the works with a few additions (New config parser, more
verbose logging, a new dependency manager and a Dockerfile), but any
feedback is useful and appreciated
* Work has started on packet generator abstractions and upgrading the test
harness to use modern reflection helpers
   * If you have a packet generator you think should be available for use
in DTS, please let Owen know, since the abstraction is being designed
around the common capabilities of all traffic generators.
   * Planned packet generators are Scapy (for functional testing only),
Trex and IXIA.

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Any other business

* Next Meeting: July 21, 2022

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*Lincoln Lavoie*
Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
lylavoie@iol.unh.edu
https://www.iol.unh.edu
+1-603-674-2755 (m)
<https://www.iol.unh.edu>

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