[dpdk-ci] Minutes of DPDK Lab Meeting, February 26th

["O'Driscoll, Tim" <tim.odriscoll@intel.com>]

OVS Tests:
- Jeremy and Aaron are working on setup of the temporary hardware.
- There are two options for hardware to run this on when the setup is complete: 1) use existing vendor hardware; 2) obtain standalone servers for OVS testing. The OVS team's preference is option 2. It's not realistic to expect a vendor to provide hardware to run a competitor's products so we'd need to find a different way to procure this. Aaron will check with Rashid to see if budget is available from Red Hat. I'll check with Trishan to see if the DPDK project budget could cover this.
- The OVS focus is on functional tests, not performance tests. The DPDK lab is currently set up so that each vendor has complete control over performance tests & results on their hardware. If we use separate hardware for the OVS tests, we need to ensure that we restrict scope to functional tests so that it does not conflict with this principle in future.

Expanding DPDK Test Coverage:
- While the OVS testing is good and helps to increase coverage, it doesn't cover everything. We still need to focus on expanding the scope of DPDK performance tests in the lab.
- Erez has verified with Trishan and budget is available for a contractor to help. We can discuss this further at the next meeting.

CI Scripts:
- Jeremy is working on getting the scripts ready to be made public.
- Jeremy has tested Ali's script to identify the correct sub-tree for a patch set and it works as expected. He'll integrate this. Zhaoyan raised some concerns that the script doesn't work in all cases. Further discussion will happen in Bugzilla.
- Ferruh will check with Thomas on the status of the Travis patches.