Community CI Meeting Minutes - December 7, 2023

Community CI Meeting Minutes - December 7, 2023

[Patrick Robb]

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December 7, 2023

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Attendees
1. Patrick Robb
2. Ali Alnubani

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Agenda
1. General Announcements
2. CI Status
3. DTS Improvements & Test Development
4. Any other business

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Using the GitHub mirror for CI jobs
   * GHA is totally moved over
   * UNH is partially moved over, and will be completely moved over soon
   * Other labs are also in progress - Patrick is sending reminders
* There is a webinar right now (9AM EST) about the role of DPDK in 5G
architecture. If you want to attend once this meeting concludes, link is
here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LSyHZj9DRf2Q0XFoev60Sg#/registration

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* Have built new container images with baked in ABI references for testing
21.11, 22.11, and 23.11
   * 23.11 ABI testing is now online
   * Will upstream the updates to the container image template engine to
dpdk-ci
* Octeon board is now completely setup in the chassis - now doing the
openBMC bringup and Ubuntu installation
* NVIDIA: The 2nd cx6 NIC is now installed on the DUT, and testing approach
updated to forwarding packets from interface 0 on NIC A, to interface 0 on
NIC B. We are seeing better mpps for smaller frame sizes, but will continue
to iterate on this to reach 100% line rate.
   * Still figuring out what func tests to run

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Intel Lab
* Patrick pinged John McNamara about the STV team using the GitHub mirror
and who the new maintainer is - will ping again if there is no response

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Loongarch Lab
* Zhoumin confirmed to Patrick that he will move the loongson lab ci system
from git.dpdk.org to the GitHub Mirror

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Github Actions
* Has already moved to GitHub mirror for cloning/fetching
DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Juraj and Jeremy agreed that instead of using 2048 rx mbuf size by
default, but shifting to 1024 mbuf size in (some) cases according to the
NIC, we should always use 2048 mbuf size. The original design was based on
the testsuites as written in old dts, but we can see no reason for this
approach.

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Any other business
* Next meeting is December 21, 2023

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