November 20, 2025

Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Andrew Bailey
* Paul Szczepanek

Minutes

General Discussion
* RC3 has been released
   * We are mostly done with DTS patches, but we can merge a couple more such as the devtools docstrings check script and the formatting fix patchseries

Patch discussions
* add test case docstring checks to format script
   * We are permitted to add this for RC4
* Pydantic build fix was merged.
* doc: add test case docstring example to dts rst
   * merged
* Virtio:
   * merged
* Single_core_fwd_perf:
   * merged
* RSS:
   * merged
* QinQ:
   * Merged
   
Bugzilla discussions
* Andrew and Patrick will update UNH DTS bugzilla tickets

Any other business
* Roadmap discussion (WIP):
   * DTS API
      * Resolve leftover parts
   * Cryptodev testing
      * (framework): Adding a shell class for the dpdk-crypto-perf application
      * (testsuites) : Encrypt/decrypt workloads with the various supported algorithms on DPDK NICs.
      * Can be implemented as a set of functional tests or (pending community discussion) can support crypto performance baselines
   * Ensure the documentation for testing on a single host with a single NIC is up to date
   * Virtio testing support:
      * Enable additional testing topologies and scenarios
   * Additional functional ethdev testsuites:
      * Ethertype Testsuite
      * QinQ testing: Extend this testsuite to validate that IDs are being stored in the correct TCI / OUTER_TCI via testpmd verbose logs
   * Flow Offload Testsuites:
      * Add a new testsuite which creates a huge combination of patterns and actions for rules, and tests them all.
* Next meeting is Dec 4, 2025