[dpdk-ci] July 1 Community CI minutes

[dpdk-ci] July 1 Community CI minutes

[Lincoln Lavoie]

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July 1, 2021

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Owen Hilyard
3. Brandon Lo
4. Ali Alnubani
5. Lijuan Tu
6. Aaron Conole
7. Michael Santana

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Agenda

1. Performance Metric Change to Percentage
2. Coverity Testing
3. CI Blog
4. CI Status
5. Test Development
6. Any other business

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Minutes

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Performance Metric Change to Percentage

* Change was merged into DTS, the Community Lab can move forward with
rolling out this change.
* Mellanox testing will skip the 512B frames case to avoid the known
regression with the TRex upgrade required for DTS.
* This work will start the week of July 12, since Owen is on vacation the
next week.

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Coverity Testing

* The requested tool “Coverity Desktop” is not available as part of the
“Coverity Scan” that is available to open source projects.  This is
available as part of their pair product offerings.
* Will re-discuss on the next CI call.

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CI Blog

*
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmYiJK_Ndo21bgjCZYQS2HUupHpNjkXnwsu6aj8AG1U/edit#
* Ready to publish - Yes - Lincoln will forward to the LF folks to get this
published.
* Next Topics - no specific topics raised.

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CI Status

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Intel Lab

* Working on setting up the DTS CI processes, some test suites were
missing, and were only running a subset of test cases or some smoke test
cases.  Working on expanding the test coverage for DTS.
* Working on setting the test guides to document the testing / developer
work (per the DTS improvement work).
* DPDK CI, still working on some of the previous issues with how the
systems deal with the patch series, root cause identified, but not yet
resolved.

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Github Actions / OBS

* Michael has been working on the OBS integration, work is ongoing (about
75% completed).  Aiming to get this completed in the next couple of weeks.
* Aarond recently completed some reporting framework on the OVS mailing
list: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-June/384521.html.
* Aaron has started working on the patch recheck request, and will be
implementing this on the Github robot.

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Alpine container now running meson compilation, unit testing has a
failure that’s being looked into, ABI has a compile issue that is also
being investigated.
* Still working on FreeBSD13.0 for the unit testing
   * Will focus on unit testing after fixing some failures, related to the
contig-mem (hugepages).
   * Compile and ABI testing in production
* Internal ABI migration has been completed
   * Scripts have been created to refresh images as well as their ABI
references
   * Standardized image is responsible for generating and checking other
images’ ABI dumps. This allows for smaller image sizes and being able to
generate an ABI on a for an image that does not have libabigail installed
* Ubuntu 20.04 ARM cross compile with clang bug fix merged. Will look into
adding the cross compile job back into the per-patch testing.
* Performance failures on Intel x86_64 40G are still being investigated.
This system will be pulled off-line for July 2 to July 5, so  the Intel
team in China can look into the issues.
* Also debugging Broadcom x86_64 25G system for functional tests, possibly
related to recently upgrading DTS.
* Support for 1C/2T has been added to the dashboard.  This was required by
a recent change in how DTS reports the performance data for the
single_core_perf_testing.
* Still working deployment of UBSAN and ASAN.  Some issues identified by
ASAN have been addressed through patches, some more work is still required
before ASAN will run cleanly.

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Test Development

* DTS Improvement
   * Discussions are progressing. Work is being tracked here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5S0_mZzFvzZfYkqyORLT2-qNvUb-fBdjA6DGusy4yM/edit
   * Next Meeting: July 7
* 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.
* 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.

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Any other business
* Next meeting: July 15, 2021

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*Lincoln Lavoie*
Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
lylavoie@iol.unh.edu
https://www.iol.unh.edu
+1-603-674-2755 (m)
<https://www.iol.unh.edu>

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