Community CI Meeting Minutes - October 31, 2024

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

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October 31, 2024
Attendees
1. Patrick Robb
2. Paul Szczepanek
3. Aaron Conole

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Bruce Richardson sent some Patchwork requests on slack infra-issues slack
channel
   * 1. Patchwork checks should be sorted by alphabetical order
   * 2. Provide “Pending” test status for all patchwork checks
   * UNH guys should be able to work on this, and he has also offered to
help as needed
* UNH Lab SOW process:
   * Tech board is voting on work priorities this week, and a final SOW for
2025 based on this will be shared with Nathan Southern on Friday.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* Dropping old distro versions:
   * Fedora 37 and 38, Debian 11, Rhel7 have hit EOL and are dropped
   * Cody is adding in some new distros next week
* UNH had some tests failing to run over the weekend due to a broken git
dir on our Jenkins instance. All the missed tests were triggered. We are
working through the job  queue, but results have been slower than normal
this week.
* UNH has increased our DPDK Lab container runner resources by 20% to
increase our testing speed for the build and unit tests overall
* Cryptodev-perf app testing for QAT card was disabled ahead of RC1 due to
a board configuration issue, and Patrick still needs to fix and re-enable
* DPDK-CI mailing list:
   * Applied the dts tags config change patch
   * Patrick needs to provide his review tag (he has already reviewed) for
the create_series_artifact.py patch (adds devtools/meson-check)

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Intel Lab
* None

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Github Actions
* Planning on applying the cirrus-ci patches next week. Then, we need to
work on the cirrus yaml file to enable freebsd
   * Macos is also an option, and could possibly be supported as it has a
freebsd compatibility layer (not sure about this though)

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Loongarch Lab
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Prebuilt binaries patch series:
   * Merged
   * For the remote=false option, we are logging warnings about “Failed to
get remote dpdk tree path” and remote dpdk build dir, even though this is
the expected situation when remote=false. Is this the behavior we want?
* Merging testsuites:
   * VLAN suite is merged
   * Next, Patrick wants to merge mac_filter (done)
   * Also, want to merge l2fwd and blocklist (Thomas is resubmitting these
with the new testcase decorater, and we need to rerun them to ensure they
are working properly)
   * Dean is updating the dynamic_queue in order for it to leverage the
rx_queue_info dataclass provided currently in testpmd_shell
* Asyncsniffer:
   * Nick found a race condition for the asyncsniffer which affects us on
some systems with Intel NICs
   * Resolving in the short term with a sleep(500ms) or similar, but
leaving a ticket open for this to provide a better solution in the future
      * Nick published the patchseries and bug ticket yesterday
* Patrick should make a bugzilla ticket noting the current paramiko
behavior in DTS (retries when initiating the connection to nodes, and
unclean exit at end of execution).
* DTS results overview json:
   * Dean started testing this
   * Saw the testsuites values were all “UNDEFINED”
* Pydantic:
   * Please review UNH people…

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Any other business
* Legacy DTS: There was a submission today from a Marvell employee for the
cryptodev app and some testcases for the cn10k
* Next Meeting Nov 14, 2024

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