Community CI meeting minutes - September 15, 2022

Community CI meeting minutes - September 15, 2022

[Lincoln Lavoie]

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September 15, 2022,

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Aaron Conole
3. David Marchand
4. Kevin Traynor
5. Michael Santana

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Agenda

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

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Minutes

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General Announcements

* DPDK User Space Summit held September 7-8, recordings of the sessions are
available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNdmaRMwOBu0H8a7DdXAT9A

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Techboard discussions during the DPDK User Space Summit provided some
clear guidance on the next steps for OSes used for DPDK testing in the
lab.  Working towards implementing those changes (older Fedora systems have
already been dropped, working to add Arch testing on DPDK main feeding to a
badge on patchworks banner).
* Lab dashboard updated to provide a testing coverage summary / matrix of
current testing:
https://dpdkdashboard.iol.unh.edu/results/dashboard/test-matrix/  We will
also work on a request to add a summary and pointer to this page on the
Testing page of dpdk.org.
* Active discussion about testing of staged patches (by the LTS
maintainers) to the LTS branches, i.e. testing a bugfix worked, before the
patch actually gets merged to the “real” LTS branch.  Testing coverage
would be the same as current LTS branches.
* Dell is finally actively working with the lab to resolve the issues we’ve
seen with the raid card in the tester (traffic generator) for the aarch64
Altra DUT.
* Open for input on testing goals for 2023, to start the development of the
lab statement of work before the end of the calendar year.  Aaron will send
out an email call on this topic as well.  Should also plan for a year end
retrospective to review the past year’s program, aiming for November /
December time-frame.

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Intel Lab

* David sent an email about failures from the lab,
http://inbox.dpdk.org/ci/CAJFAV8zyOMqh_b1mxv=jqZgcUFummbD0NoxB=jVW4OMUMydVyg@mail.gmail.com/
 Needs some feedback from the Intel Lab team.

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Github Actions

* Upgrade was completed last Friday, September 9, 2022.  Everything appears
to be working ok and is being monitored, no issues detected.  Please let
the team know if you notice anything.
* Next steps, looking to change the builds to make things more
containerized and limited in scope.  This work would begin as the system is
determined stable, following the recent upgrade.

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DTS Improvements & Test Development

* A traffic generator library proposal and demonstration during the DPDK
User Space Summit that might be useful to the DTS development, or as a
replacement for some of the TRex requirements within DTS:
https://sched.co/17v8c
* A RTE Flow tester was also shown during the DPDK User Space Summit.
There was a desire from the community to see that tool aligned with the RTE
Flow testing already developed and included in DTS, keeping the tools used
to validate DPDK and devices “contained” in DTS, so users have a clear
reference for that type of testing, https://sched.co/17v9U

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Any other business

* Next Meeting: September 29, 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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