Community CI Meeting Minutes - April 18, 2024

Community CI Meeting Minutes - April 18, 2024

[Patrick Robb]

April 18, 2024

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Attendees
1. Patrick Robb
2. Paul Szczepanek
3. Juraj Linkeš
4. Aaron Conole
5. Ali Alnubani

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* GB is wrapping up voting on the UNH Lab server refresh proposal -
should have more info on this by end of week
   * Patrick Robbshare the list of current servers and servers to be
acquired with Paul
* UNH lab is working on updates to get_reruns.py for retests v2, and
will upstream this when ready.
   * UNH will also start pre-populating all environments with PENDING,
and then overwriting those as new results come in.
   * Reminder - Final conclusion on policy is:
      * A) If retest is requested without rebase key, then retest
"original" dpdk artifact (either by re-using the existing tarball (unh
lab) or tracking the commit from submit time and re-applying onto dpdk
at that commit (loongson)).
      * B) If rebase key is included, apply to tip of the indicated
branch. If, because the branch has changed, the patch no longer
applies, then we can report an apply failure. Then, submitter has to
refactor their patch and resubmit.
      * In either case, report the new results with an updated test
result in the email (i.e. report "_Testing PASS RETEST #1" instead of
"_Testing PASS" in the email body).

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* ABI binaries got sent to Dodji Seketeli after some abi fails came
in, and he confirmed moving to libabigail 2.4 resolves the issue. Cody
Chengis working on this now.
   * To be submitted to upstream template engine:
https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-ci/tree/containers/template_engine
* SPDK: Working on these compile jobs
   * Currently compile with:
      * Ubuntu 22.04
      * Debian 11
      * Debian 12
      * CentOS 8
      * CentOS 9
      * Fedora 37
      * Fedora 38
      * Fedora 39
      * Opensuse-Leap 15 but with a warning
   * Cannot compile with:
      * Rhel 8
      * Rhel 9
      * SPDK docs state rhel is “best effort”
   * Questions:
      * Should we run with werror enabled?
      * What versions of SPDK do we test?
      * What versions of DPDK do we test SPDK against?
   * Unit tests pass with the distros which are compiling
   * UPDATE: We are polling SPDK people on their Slack, but current
plan is to bring testing online for only distros which work with
werror compile currently. So, not RHEL, no Opensuse.
* OvS DPDK testing:
   * OvS compile still passing on some distros but failing on others -
Adam is going to circle back on this when he gets time
      * Submit tickets for any outstanding issues
      * Bring ovs compile testing online
   * Plans for performance testing are still pending Aaron & David discussing
* Code coverage for fast tests is now running in CI, 1x per month. You
can download the latest reports here:
https://dpdkdashboard.iol.unh.edu/results/dashboard/code-coverage
   * Open out/coveragereport/index.html
   * Do we need code coverage reports for the other unit tests suites?
(not just fast test)
      * UNH to dry run this, share results
* NVIDIA: Gal has offered to send two CX7 NICs to the UNH lab. This
should allow us to install two CX7 NICs on the DUT, and start
forwarding between the two NICs.
* Pcapng_autotest
   * UNH has some spurious failures reported to patchwork for Debian
12. Need to reconnect with Stephen to debug this further.
* Updating Coverity binaries at UNH

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Intel Lab
* Patrick pinged John M again about a lab contact

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Github Actions
* No new updates

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Loongarch Lab
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* API docs generation:
   * Reviews are needed for this. Need an ACK from
bruce.richardson@intel.com now that there are some new changes on the
meson side
   * Thomas wants to link DTS api docs from doxygen from dpdk docs
   * UNH folks should provide a review
* Jeremy is switching back to DTS next week, and will be working more
on the 2nd scatter case for MLNX, which will rely on the capabilities
querying (and testcase skipping) patch. Will provide feedback to Juraj
on that patch soon.
* Hugepages patch is updated based on feedback from Morten, but
essentially the same (in approach) as last week.

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Any other business
* DPDK Summit in Montreal will now be late September. This plan is
still being finalized.
* Next Meeting: May 1, 2024