May 20, 2021

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Aaron Conole
3. Ali Alnubani
4. Ashley Weltz
5. Brandon Lo
6. David Marchand
7. Juraj Linkeš
8. Lijuan Tu
9. Thomas
10. Michael Santana

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Agenda

1. Performance Metric Change to Percentage
2. CI Lab Status
3. Test Development
4. Any Other Business

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Minutes

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Performance Metric Change to Percentage

* Patch series is still pending merge: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=15990
* Blocked by: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670

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CI Lab Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Unit testing has been rolled out to all container runners (all Linux distros).
** Investigating failures and rerunning if failures are real
* The apply patch job sends out warnings when patches fail to apply.
* Starting to investigate putting Fedora 34 into pipeline to expand coverage.
Bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679
** Intel lab currently has Fedora 33 in production/testing on their side. Should we still try and expand onto Fedora 33 as well?
** Lab will bring both Fedora 33 and Fedora 34 online for testing / reporting.
* Rolling out FreeBSD 13.0 for compile, unit, and ABI testing.  Will then retire FreeBSD 11.2.
* Currently looking into 40G Intel machine issues.
** Emails have been sent out to Intel to schedule a time to the debug this issues.
* Dynamic Config DTS test case is failing, due to roll back of patch dealing with white space trimming in expected output.  DTS team is working on this currently, should we disable the test case for the time being?  https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639 Agreed to disable this until the DTS patch is readded.
* Need to confirm the compiler version used and if possible add GCC11 and CLANG12.

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Intel Lab

   * Intel lab had a critical issue, missed submitting patches / results.  Root cause has been identified as a lab power failure / cycle.  Has been fixed and results should be reporting in again.
   * Upgraded Fedora 33 to Fedora 34.

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Github Actions / OBS

   * Found an issue within OBS on the meson build.  Proposing to fork the build scripts to a dedicated repo for the OBS systems, so this can be directly maintained. This is currently blocking re-enabling OBS reporting.
   * Travis has been removed from the CI resources for the project, it can still be used by individual developers.
   * Arm is working on a solution to provide aarch64 resources via a private running for Github actions.

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CI / Test Development

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DTS Improvement

* Discussions are progressing. Work is being tracked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5S0_mZzFvzZfYkqyORLT2-qNvUb-fBdjA6DGusy4yM/edit
* Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at 1pm UTC
   
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Developer Retesting Request

* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/ci/2021-May/001189.html
* Seeking feedback on the “command syntax.”  Still need to implement the tracking / mechanics for things like patches and message ID tracking.

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Community Lab Objectives

* Q1 Update to the techboard: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v0VKtZdsMXg35WNDawdsnqj5J4Xl9Egu_4180ukKD2o
* Status tracking is also being partly carried out in Bugzilla.  Epics have been created for each major objective. This will span 2021, do not expect them to be closed quickly. Updates posted to each objective will track story completion, etc.  This is a compromise of how to easily track the long term objectives.

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Open Requests (outside of planned objectives)

* Add meson syntax check testing (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696)
* Will leave this open for now for folks to give feedback on.
* Alpine Linux - I believe there was a request for this that went by, but I can’t track it down.  This is a sanity check, am I misremembering, or is this a real request?
** Request was from Thomas.  Alpine Linux is now being supported as of the latest DPDK release.

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Any Other Business

   * Coverity Recheck (for rc4) - Brandon will look into running this today, so the fixes can be verified.
   * Next CI meeting: June 2, 2021, 1pm UTC