Bug ID 1577
Summary dts: Request for memory usage test in CI
Product DPDK
Version unspecified
Hardware All
OS All
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity normal
Priority Normal
Component DTS
Assignee dev@dpdk.org
Reporter probb@iol.unh.edu
CC juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech, probb@iol.unh.edu
Target Milestone ---

On 11/13/24 Tech board discussed the idea of tracking hugepage memory usage for
EAL bringup and basic DPDK workloads for per patch CI testing. Ideally UNH
could track a baseline for each DPDK tree, and then for per patch testing
compare the baseline for the tree a patch is applied on with the memory usage
test result for that patch. 

Testcases would be:

1. Start testpmd (EAL starts) and check memory usage.
2. Start some basic l2/l3 forwarding and check memory usage during.
3. (possible) Create flow rules for a device, check memory usage.
4. etc.

Prereqs to adding this test:

1. Add a runtime command to testpmd which will return hugepage memory usage.

Other notes: 

1. UNH would need to track tree memory usage for each device/driver, as we can
expect usage will not be consistent across devices. In principle it is similar
to how UNH stores performance baselines for NIC/tree combinations right now, so
no DB schema updates should be required.
          


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