[dpdk-ci] Community CI Meeting Minutes - November 5, 2020

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

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Hi All,

Looks like I missed mailing these out, sending now for record keeping.

November 5, 2020

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Attendees
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1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. James Hendergart
3. Thomas Monjalon
4. Brandon Lo
5. Gal Cohen
6. Ruxiang Wang
7. Honnappa Nagarahalli
8. Juraj Linkes
9. Zhaoyan Chen

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Agenda
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1. CI Status
2. Test Development
3. Any other business

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Minutes
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CI Status
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General
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* BUG-210 (Patches with dependency fails to apply): Syntax is now official
in the documentation, should be possible to update the script to look for /
parse this information.
   * UNH-IOL will look into implementing this, either in git-pw or as a
wrapper to that.
* BUG-511 (Add check if performance tests are needed): This can also be
implemented to avoid running unnecessary testing.
   * UNH-IOL will look into implementing this.

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Travis CI / OBS
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* No updates

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Intel Lab
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* No issues, running for 20.11 release.
* Need to extend the coverage if possible to add more devices / drivers.
This would have caught a recent failure within the testpmd component, if
additional drivers are being checked.  Zhaoyan will discuss internally and
come back with a proposed plan.
* Intel is planning to add test cases to the UNH-IOL hosted hardware for
crypto and virt-io.  Lincoln to work with Zhaoyan on this plan and report
back to the group.

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
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* Seeing some apply errors as the branches change rapidly with the 20.11
release prep.  We’ve been watching and manually selecting the branch where
possible for these cases.
* Working on reliability with DPDK unit testing script
   * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566
* Making changes to meson compile to reduce amount of false failures
reported on the dashboard
* Investigating issue with patch sets not being picked up by the server
* ARM hardware still being set up with DTS/TREX
* Working on migrating rte_flow functional test into production systems
* Reporting format
   * Desire to have the last N lines of the console log included in the
email report, this will make it easier to debug quickly.  We’ll file a bug
on this item to track this.  Plan to launch this after the 20.11 release is
completed. (See BUG-569).

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Test Development
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* rte_flow was completed and merged into the DTS main branch.
* Future Work
* DTS Feedback - Some initial (rough draft) user and developer feedback has
been captured here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5S0_mZzFvzZfYkqyORLT2-qNvUb-fBdjA6DGusy4yM/edit
 Tech board is looking into DTS as a priority for 2021, and this feedback
is extremely valuable to that process.  Please contribute! A lot of the
devs are very busy with the 20.11 release, so we’ll keep reminding this
over the next few meetings, so we don’t forget.

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Any other business
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* Next Meeting: November 19, 2020

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*Lincoln Lavoie*
Senior 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)
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