Community CI Meeting Minutes - August 4, 2022

Community CI Meeting Minutes - August 4, 2022

[Lincoln Lavoie]

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Attendees

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

* User Space Summit is still moving forward as a hybrid event (in-person
and remote). Registration is open now, no deadline (until the event
starts). We have 22 speakers selected, along with some wait-listed
submissions.  Agenda should be posted shortly.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Some test report mails to the list are being blocked for “too many
recipients.”  Can we get the list permissions updated to avoid blocking
messages from infrastructure? Original mail had 5 emails in To: and 5
emails in the CC:, where the list is created from maintainers and branch
information. Ali will look into the list configuration.
* Planned DPDK maintenance window starting Monday, August 8, 2022
   * Jenkins software upgrades, along with plugins
   * Update Jenkins retention policy, logs and test artifacts will now only
be kept for 8 months.
   * Deploy update to the patch apply system to use shallow and fresh
clones for the beginning of each test run. This eliminates any git cache /
sync issue.
   * Updates for some physical infrastructure within the lab, such as UPS
systems.
* Should be rolling out the requested kernel build testing very shortly.
This will test DPDK building against the “next” kernel (Linus tree), for
kmods (kni and dpdk-kmods).
* OpenSSL testing is still pending patch to fix ipsec skipped tests. This
is blocking rolling out this test.  Patch is here:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23985
* Lab secured an additional aarch64 server that will be coming online as an
additional container job runner (i.e. compile and unit testing).
* Question for if there is an official list of distros that are supported
by DPDK?  Ideally, the lab would ensure these are maintained and tracked
for updates.  For example, are rolling distros, such as CentOS stream or
arch expected to maintain support for testing.  Similarly, how long are
older releases expected to be maintained, such as a Fedora 31?

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Intel Lab

* Updates via email (Lijuan had connectivity issues):
   * Intel is working on 19.11.13, and several build issues are found.
      * ice meson build error with gcc11.2 is fixed, bug-1055
      * unit_tests_eal failure is fixed.
      * gcc12 compiling failure with lots of modules and several bugs are
recorded in Bugzilla.
   * A new testbed for 700Series NIC is being set up for functional smoke
tests.

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Github Actions

* CI had a small bit of downtime due to configuration issues within the
lab, but it is up and running now.  Upgrade work is still pending / planned
for the robot / runner.

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Test Development

* DTS WG has some patches into the dpdk main for review.  Really need the
DPDK community to participate in reviewing patches, so this work can be
moved forward.
* These reviews are blocking other submissions that are dependent on these
proposed patches.  Trying to avoid creating too long of a patch dependency
chain.

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Any other business

* Next Meeting: August 18, 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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