25.03 DTS Roadmap

Below is the 25.03 DTS Roadmap. There are both some carry over series from
the previous (24.11) development cycle which are ongoing, as well as new
items.


   1.

   Add virtual function configuration support
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500
      2.

      Patchwork: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=33109
      2.

   Support flow rules via a DPDK flow rule dataclass, and port over legacy
   rte_flow testsuite:
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486
      2.

      Patchwork: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34104
      3.

   Support per-testsuite config values in conf.yaml
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375
      4.

   Update conf.yaml such that each port’s bus info has to be defined only
   once, instead of twice under two different nodes (local node and peer node)
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478
      2.

      Patchwork: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32804
      5.

   Remove excess attributes from conf.yaml DTS configuration
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360
      6.

   Split test_run and node configuration into separate files
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344
      2.

      Patchwork: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32384
      7.

   Replace current linters with Ruff:
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358
      2.

      Patchwork: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34141
      8.

   Copy dpdk-devbind to both hosts (currently only available on SUT) and
   bind according to TG and DPDK requirements
   1.

      https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420
      9.

   Write traffic generator subclass for TREX and one other performance TG
   1.

      https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601
      10.

   Port over single core forwarding performance test
   11.

   Clean up DPDK source artifacts at the conclusion of a test run (delete
   DPDK tarballs, devbind script, etc.)
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557
      12.

   Replace helloworld testsuite with simple testsuite that brings up EAL
   via testpmd, then stops
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567
      13.

   Update testsuite subclass docstrings so that they all use the “Steps”
   and “Verify” format for each testcase.
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599
      14.

   Add test case/suite context parameters, e.g. required cores
   1.

      Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600
      15.

    Continue porting the func tests on bugzilla:
   1.

      All func tests in progress should be tracked on this page:
      https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=component%3Adts&list_id=8841