May 26, 2022
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Attendees
1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Nathan Southern
3. Owen Hilyard
4. Adam Hassick
5. Aaron Conole
6. Ali Alnubani
7. Jeremy Spewock
8. Juraj Linkes
9. 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
* Updates from Community CI to the DPDK Governing Board May 31 meeting.
* Need to sync with Honnappa on the DTS improvements updates, Nathan will reach out to him.
* Aaron will provide some updates on the Redhat robot for the Github Actions. We should also mention the Github issues with the API did impact the project over a couple of weeks.
* Lincoln to review the past tech releases from the community lab (since March) and provide those updates as well.
* DPDK project is looking to hire a tech writer for the project.
* There are currently 16 applicants.
* Nathan is working on pulling together the scope for the writer / position.
* This position might be able to help with some of the DTS documentation updates, as that moves into the main DPDK repos and documentation.
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CI Status
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UNH-IOL Community CI Lab
* Windows Unit testing should now be enabled and reporting up. There was a small bug that prevented reports from upstreaming when this was first turned on at the end of last week (that’s fixed now). Note, this is running only on the DPDK current main, and not LTS branches, as they do not have the fixes required to run the unit testing on Windows.
* Alpine Linux unit testing is also now running / reporting up for main DPDK branches.
* Continued to investigate the random issues seen in the Windows compile / unit environment. This may be caused by a process not ending from a previous compile and “blocking” the clean up (file deletion) of the environment by Meson. We are still debugging the problem.
* Team is still working on bringing the Broadcom NIC hosts back online on the new hardware.
* Still waiting to hear back from the arm team about the hardware issue we ran into with the Dell server (bad RAID controller), that is blocking bringing the arm / ampere systems online.
* Crypto maintainers have been reviewing Brandon’s patches on the FIPS testing and updates to support the new NIST format
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Intel Lab
* Intel is still working on updating the test beds for the 22.07 releases.
* Still seeing 3 compile issues with the different OS updates
* Ubuntu 22.04, kni (
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017)
* Fedora 36 fails with GCC 12, issues with vhosts (possibly others) (
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016)
* Freebsd 13.1 is facing an issue with GCC 10, issues may have already been fixed by Bruce (
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014). There were also some other issues with 13.0 on unit tests (
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761) that are likely still open.
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Github Actions / OBS
* Still working through the upgrade planning for the zero-day robot, there have been a couple of issues that they are working through. Working on the upgrade as a parallel system, so it can “swap into live” when ready.
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Test Development
* DTS improvements team is moving towards the first patches to move in. Patches are trying to break up DTS.
* Owen is working on an upgrade to the config file handling, moving into YAML, with a schema validation. Should be ready around next Wednesday’s DTS meeting.
* Added a DTS future branch, that will be used for moving things into the DPDK main repos, while refactoring efforts will be in the future branch.
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Any other business
* Next meeting: June 9, 2022
