DTS Improvement Working Group Minutes (March 2)

[Owen Hilyard <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu>]

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Attendees

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   Owen Hilyard
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   Honnappa Nagarahalli
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   Lijuan Tu
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   Lincoln Lavoie

Agenda

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   Additions to the agenda
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   Review/Carry forward pending action items
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   Review DTS DPDK Modifications excel sheet
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   Merging DTS into DPDK
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   Review additional work items

MinutesReview/Carry forward pending action items

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   Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs
   under progress.
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      Still in progress
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   Honnappa - The changes to DPDK need to be backported to LTS releases.
   Discuss with Lijuan and the community.
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      Patches will be backported
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   Owen - Owen to review Juraj’s feedback.
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      Done
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   Honnappa - Follow up with DPDK governing board to get the approval/legal
   opinion on including the GPL licensed files from DTS in the DPDK tree.
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      Governing board has not met
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   Owen - Look at making DTS build using the common DPDK repo in addition
   to the existing tarball option.
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      Looks to be possible, blocked by decisions on the placement of DTS
      inside of DPDK
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   Lijuan - The makefile removal patch is ready to get merged (
   http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610). Merge it in
   the 22.03 DTS release.
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      Additional issues discovered
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         Meson configuration changed improperly
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      Makefiles will be removed as the meson issues are fixed
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   Juraj - Postponed: Convert the makefile build for documentation to use
   meson build after merging the repositories or the directory structure is
   known.
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      Not present
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   Honnappa - Discuss merge permissions for Owen for the DTS tree with the
   Tech Board
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      Merge permissions have been granted
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   Lijuan/Owen - Check if dep/scapy_modules/Dot1BR.py file is required to
   be in DTS. If it is required, understand options for replacement/removing
   this file.
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      Look into rewriting the file so it’s not GPL
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   Lijuan/Owen - Check if dep/QMP/qmp.py can be installed on DUT as part
   of  the qemu-guest-agent package.
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      In progress
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   Honnappa/Owen - Discuss Python bindings for DPDK in March 9th Techboard
   call.
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      Meeting has not happened yet

Merging DTS into DPDK

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   Are we going to integrate DTS with the DPDK build system? No resolution
   yet.
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   Try for 22.07
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   Focus on framework and test cases used in CI
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   Do a deep dive on Feb 9th - identify what needs to be done and estimate
   the work.


DPDK Modifications Review

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   Some issues are fixed
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   Many changes are still present.

Action Items

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   Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs
   under progress.
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   Owen - Write a script to run formatters (Black + Isort). Pin versions in
   dts requirements file. As part of the patch series, format DTS again.
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   Jurai - Rewrite dep/scapy_modules/Dot1BR.py from scratch so we can
   change the license.
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   Lijuan/Owen - Check if dep/QMP/qmp.py can be installed on DUT as part
   of  the qemu-guest-agent package.
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   Lijuan/Owen - Remove ABI_stable test suite
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   Lijuan/Owen - Investigate DTS test suites to check for redundant tests
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      Unit testing (handled by meson now)
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      “Does it compile?” tests
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      etc

Any other business

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   Next Meeting: March 9, 2022

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