Sorry, I could not make techboard this week as I had a conflict from another project. I would like to reiterate that in principle an effective way to start addressing any gaps is to use testing to better understand the landscape as is. At the same time, yes this conversation did not reach maturity during 2023, so there aren't hyperscaler testing work items in 2024's Community Lab SOW. Written SOW items always have to take precedence, but we will continue to accept ad-hoc community requests like always, and engage in conversations for what's next for testing in DPDK.

We had an email chain going with Robin/Honnappa about the most needed test coverage in this space, etc. but it died out. I remember Honnappa mentioning the importance of measuring multi core scalability performance, running l2fwd l3fwd sample apps etc. I think Robin may host some calls in 2024 to take feedback on this. We would still need a plan on funding for the cloud instances used, list of vNICs to provide testing coverage for, a test plan, etc. So, realistically today we are very far off, but if the conversation on this continues to develop, we can engage and define better if/how the Community Lab could play a role.