August 18, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Owen Hilyard
3. Juraj Linkeš
4. Lijuan Tu

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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 governing board meeting is August 23, rescheduled to avoid the User Space Summit.  Aaron & Lincoln will pull together updates from the CI community for the meeting.  Anything specific the community would like us to include?  
   * Raise the issue about reviewing DTS patches.
* DPDK User Space Summit agenda posted: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Maintenance items were completed, and patchworks polling resumed on Monday.  System was caught up by Tuesday with patches that came in during the maintenance window.  The maintenance completed included a full update of Jenkins and removing test artifacts older than 8 months, as well as some migrations to updated pipelines and job definitions.
* Next working update and streamline the container builds used for the compile, unit, and abi tests.  This will add latest OSes, such as RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04, as well as enable building images for both x86_64 and aarch64.  Once aarch64 images are available, we will begin using a dedicated aarch64 container runner.
* Open question, what are the “official” lists of OSes supported by DPDK.  Both on the new (i.e. RHEL latest) and older (i.e. CentOS 8) ends?  So, we can know what to add and remove from testing.  Similarly, what is the commitment to support the newest versions of compilers that might be included in a latest release?
* For the kmods testing, some discussion is needed around strategy to track the dpdk-kmods repo.
* Open Items
   * Email list issue with too many recipients was fixed, with the test-reports list’s limit increased to 100.
   * OpenSSL patch is still pending review and backport, blocking enabling the OpenSSL unit testing request from the community: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23985
   * Dell server, traffic generator for ampere Altra aarch64 test bed, is still down, pending a hardware replacement being handled through the Dell warranty (which arm holds).

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Intel Lab

* Intel lab may need to have some downtime, because of electrical grid controls being put into place because of the heat wave in the region.  If the lab gets the notice / details from the government, the intel team will send notice to the ci email list.
* Still having issues with Freebsd 13.1 and messon.  The new version of meson included with the OS causes issues, but using an older version of meson seems to work.  Current ci install scripts specify version 0.49.2, but that is “very” old.  Question for the techboard, what is the plan for supporting newer or updated versions.  Lincoln & Owen will queue up a discussion with techboard on this topic.


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Github Actions

* No updates.

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Test Development

* Discussion on DTS unit test suite, per Lijuan’s email
   * Proposal to remove some unit tests from DTS, where these test cases update dpdk source code.  Intel team will make a patch.  If extra information is needed from “inside” dpdk, tracepoints should be added to the upstream dpdk.
* Reviewers are still needed for DTS patches from Juraj

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Any other business

* Next CI Meeting: September 1, 2022