Community CI meeting - October 13, 2022

[Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>]

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October 13, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Patrick Robb
3. Aaron Conole
4. Juraj Linkeš
5. David Marchand
6. Lijuan Tu
7. Ali Alnubani
8. Adam Hassick
9. Jeremy Spewock

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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

* none

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CI Status

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General

* The Meson upgrade (0.49 to 0.53) rolled out successfully. Thank you
Thomas for waiting for the 3 labs to verify compatibility before merging
the patch.
* LoongSon team is working to stand up CI infrastructure, and may join
these sessions once their systems com online.

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* The Community Lab aims to bring our Ampere Altra (aarch64) test system
online in days/weeks. Issues with the Dell Server (traffic generator) have
now been solved.
* Owen’s patch which adds the containers builder to dpdk-ci has been
submitted to the mailing list, with some initial comments by  Ali.  Will
work on a V2 patch, other comments are welcome.
* The UNH team explored using a cloud provider for badge
generation/serving, but ultimately decided that an acceptable response time
could be provided with a badge hosted on the community lab dashboard, and
that this approach would reduce complexity. This solution is largely
implemented and should be available for Patchwork in a matter of days. We
just need to add the proxy route to the external http server. Testing is
already running in the lab on Arch Linux.
* Planning to work on the stable / staging branches for LTS next, which
will be added to run / trigger from the Github mirror, with Jenkins
configured to watch that repo for per-comment changes.
* 2023 SOW has been submitted to the Linux Foundation, and reviewed by the
Governing Board.

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Intel Lab

* Intel CI had some errors during a national holiday, these are being
looked into.  There was a question around integrating the Intel lab results
into the dashboard, for log storage.  This would require an external API
where Intel lab could push logs and test results.  Intel is also looking
into how some log file tails could be included in the email reports up to
patchwork as well.
* David Marchand also asked if the dpdk main branch was running in the lab,
there may be a gap in coverage.  Intel team will look at running the main
branch through smoke testing as well.

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Github Actions

* Unplanned outage on Monday, there was an issue with an electrical service
to the lab that took longer than expected.  Everything was recovered /
caught up with patches.
* Hardware upgrade was completed a couple of weeks ago, that work went as
planned.
* Next up are some security related changes, Aaron and team will confirm
the schedule soon.

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DTS Improvements & Test Development

* DTS Meeting will be hosted on the CI “off-week” meetings, starting
October 20.  Nathan was working on getting a calendar invite out to the
meetings with the Zoom info.
* The V6 (hopefully final) version of the DTS patch was sent to the list,
waiting to see if this now merged into DPDK soon.  The “hello world” test
suite patch is being worked on next.
* A new Test Development System and DPDK PMD test suite has been created
which could provide similar functionality to DTS: https://ts-factory.io/
   * Team is asked to review and provide some feedback in the next weeks on
this system and if there is potential interest in using this system / tool.

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Any other business

* Next CI meeting: October 27, 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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