Re: Community CI Meeting Minutes - December 7, 2023

[zhoumin <zhoumin@loongson.cn>]

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Dear team,

On Thur, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:00PM, Patrick Robb wrote:
> December 7, 2023
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> Attendees
> 1. Patrick Robb
> 2. Ali Alnubani
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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
> * Using the GitHub mirror for CI jobs
>    * GHA is totally moved over
>    * UNH is partially moved over, and will be completely moved over soon
>    * Other labs are also in progress - Patrick is sending reminders
> * There is a webinar right now (9AM EST) about the role of DPDK in 5G 
> architecture. If you want to attend once this meeting concludes, link 
> is here: 
> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LSyHZj9DRf2Q0XFoev60Sg#/registration
>
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> CI Status
>
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> UNH-IOL Community Lab
> * Have built new container images with baked in ABI references for 
> testing 21.11, 22.11, and 23.11
>    * 23.11 ABI testing is now online
>    * Will upstream the updates to the container image template engine 
> to dpdk-ci
> * Octeon board is now completely setup in the chassis - now doing the 
> openBMC bringup and Ubuntu installation
> * NVIDIA: The 2nd cx6 NIC is now installed on the DUT, and testing 
> approach updated to forwarding packets from interface 0 on NIC A, to 
> interface 0 on NIC B. We are seeing better mpps for smaller frame 
> sizes, but will continue to iterate on this to reach 100% line rate.
>    * Still figuring out what func tests to run
>
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> Intel Lab
> * Patrick pinged John McNamara about the STV team using the GitHub 
> mirror and who the new maintainer is - will ping again if there is no 
> response
>
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> Loongarch Lab
> * Zhoumin confirmed to Patrick that he will move the loongson lab ci 
> system from git.dpdk.org 
> <https://mailgw.loongson.cn/linkserver?dest=http%3A%2F%2Fgit.dpdk.org&tid=_____8CxrusT7HFlRKw_AA--.58868S2&rcpt=zhoumin@loongson.cn&ifnotice=1&rindex=0> 
> to the GitHub Mirror
>
LoongArch DPDK ci system had moved from git.dpdk.org to the Github 
Mirror on this Wednesday.

Best regards,

Min

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> Github Actions
> * Has already moved to GitHub mirror for cloning/fetching
> DTS Improvements & Test Development
> * Juraj and Jeremy agreed that instead of using 2048 rx mbuf size by 
> default, but shifting to 1024 mbuf size in (some) cases according to 
> the NIC, we should always use 2048 mbuf size. The original design was 
> based on the testsuites as written in old dts, but we can see no 
> reason for this approach.
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> Any other business
> * Next meeting is December 21, 2023

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