Community CI Meeting Minutes - February 20, 2025

Community CI Meeting Minutes - February 20, 2025

[Patrick Robb]

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February 20, 2025
Attendees
. Patrick Robb
. Paul Szczepanek
. Roman Epo
. Andre Muezerie
. Aaron Conole
. Luca Vizzarro

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* DPDK 25.03 RC2 is scheduled for February 28
* CFP is open for DPDK Summit Prague: May 8-9

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* ARM Grace:
   * Honnappa/Wathsala gave us some more performance tuning tips for Grace:
   * Sent them the latest raw MPPS metrics for E810 on Grace, and indicated
we would enable saving/reporting to patchwork this week if there isn’t any
more system tuning to be done (this appears to be the case)
* New DTS in CI testing:
   * Started publishing CI results to the dashboard last week for the mac
filter testsuite only - this has been stable
   * Will extend the test matrix since everything has gone fine over the
past week
* Depends on:
   * Adam submitted his latest version, and aaron ACKed
   * Adam also submitted the git-pw patch which allows people to use the
new depends-on updates for patchwork
* Intel E810 failures:
   * This series improved the single core forwarding performance for
ICE/E810: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34444&state=*
   * When this happened, the TG send throughput was overtaken by testpmd’s
“throughput,” making the TG the bottleneck. Usually this is avoided by
sending at line rate from the TG - but in this case we are having trouble
hitting line rate with our TG. Patrick is seeing if the TG config can be
updated to boost the throughput. Otherwise, we will have to sub in a
different TG NIC which we know can send at a higher rate.

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Intel Lab
* None

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Github Actions
* Cirrus CI:
   * Worked on the cirrus yaml file for FreeBSD
   * There are some environmental and code issues with running the testing.
It may be a major effort to resolve these issues. It’s not immediately
clear to Aaron how he could resolve this alone.
      * If testing with FreeBSD isn’t possible, this reduces the usefulness
of Cirrus overall, particularly given that GHA now supports Windows
   * Can we run a subset of the meson unit tests?
      * It is possible to do this:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/meson_ut.html

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AWS
* They are working on rolling their own test-report email
templating/sending script
* After this, they will enable build and meson test pipelines for x86_64
and ARM Graviton

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Loongarch Lab
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* The “revamp framework” topology patch was merged
* Add VFs to framework:
   * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=33109
* SUT cleanup patch:
https://git.dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-dts/commit/?id=c79f7084ae45e5bbe9553e0efb323d232a46feaf
* Verbose output: The testpmd patch which adds l4 port # to testpmd verbose
output is staged on next-net currently
* Dean is updating a few of Jeremy’s old testsuites, like rx/tx offload,
port_stats.
* Fix dts-check-format:
   * dts: grab linter return value
   * Linter results were not being included in the “test” result

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Any other business
* Next Meeting Mar 6, 2025

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