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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Brandon Lo
3. David Liu
4. Owen Hilyard
5. Trishan de Lanerolle
6. Aaron Conole
7. Juraj Linkeš
8. Lijuan Tu
9. Michael Santana
10. Tomasz Zawadzki

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Agenda

1. Performance Testing Metrics
2. ARM Cross-compile Request
3. CI Status
4. Bugzilla Status
5. Test Development
6. Any other business

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Performance Testing Metrics

* DTS Patch to convert to percentage  is available https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/patch/20210311104800.243752-1-lijuan.tu@intel.com/
* Also add multiple measurement points during the run, to create an average of the tests.
* Request to have UNH-IOL Community Lab try running the patch, will report back to the submitted patch.
* Once merged, we’ll provide a plan for the migration / deployment of this change to the lab (assuming next CI meeting).  The plan will also address how we can handle legacy data, etc.

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ARM Cross-compile Request

* Request to look into adding a cross compile test for aarch64 (x86_64 --> aarch64).  This would replicate what we have in Travis (GCC & Clang). Juraj Linkeš will provide a Docker file and bash script to handle the compile. Being tracked as BUG-660.
* Request for testing aarch64 SVE instructions in an emulated environment (unit tests for LPM library), hardware is not yet available.  Testing of PMDs using SVE instructions would be for further work / study.  Will continue the discussions via the email thread for how this could be setup.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Compile testing has been deployed for Fedora 32, RHEL7 and RHEL8
** Unit testing is the next step for containerization
* BUG-638 - Deploy c-cache to compile jobs - Deployed on all bare-metal systems, deployed to new containers (Fedora 32, RHEL7, and RHEL8).  All other unit/compile tests will be moving to this container infrastructure.
* BUG-408 - Add Arm hardware to the lab for general testing - Broadcom is working to upgrade the firmware on the NICs in the ARM system as a possible solution to the issues seen with running the DTS tests suites.
* BUG-651 - Update the meson version to 0.57.0 for Windows used in CI pipeline - Upgraded meson is now installed (0.57.1).
** Need to investigate the currently installed custom meson
* With upgraded deployment of DTS (percentage change), we would like to standardize the DTS setup on the bare-metal systems (i.e. file / install locations, etc.).  Previously, these are more “akin” to the individual vendor preferences. UNH-IOL will follow up with each of the bare-metal maintainers to discuss these changes.

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Intel Community Lab

* Setup testing for DTS patches, need to understand how to send these results to patchworks. Aaron Conole will send a message to Ali Alnubani for how to deal with differentiating the reporting for the test results.  This may be a function of the patch ID, which should be unique across the whole patchworks instance.

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Travis CI / Github Actions / OBS

* Some trouble with patchwork upgrade, something in the APIs changed, required some fixes on the reporting, which should now be fixed / showing up correctly.
* Aaron has started working on the OBS integration scripts.  Includes a mechanism to expire the builds when the branches are done.  Should be deployed in the next 2 to 3 weeks (i.e. results will start showing up).
* Travis pipeline was reporting failures during linking for some of the builds.  Patch was submitted, but isn’t yet merged.

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Bugzilla Status

* https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&columnlist=product%2Ccomponent%2Cpriority%2Cbug_status%2Cassigned_to%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate&component=job%20scripts&component=UNH%20infra&component=Intel%20Lab&component=Travis%20CI&list_id=3419&order=priority%2Cchangeddate%20DESC&product=lab&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

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Test Development

* For the next meeting, we’ll review the Q1 / Q2 priorities from the SOW objectives.

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Any other business

* Next Meeting March 25, 2021