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May 22, 2025
Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Luca Vizzarro
* Paul Szczepanek
* Manit Mahajan
* Dean Marx
* Matthew McGovern

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Minutes

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General Discussion
* Nick Pratte from UNH-IOL is doing an internship outside IOL this Summer, so he will not be working on DTS as much as expected
   * He still wants to submit some testsuites this Summer, but all his framework side work (like perf tg (trex) support) will go to Patrick or Dean
   * He may be back to working on DTS more regularly at the end of the Summer that is TBD
* CI Lab items:
   * We’re still debugging some of the failures that we saw on the cx5 before DPDK Summit, which took that testing offline in our public reporting system
   * Dean is adding some new NICs to the public testing
      * Broadcom 25g
      * Broadcom 100g (p2100g)

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Patch discussions
* Rte_flow: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35269
   * Dean has updated the flow testsuite, adding a flow validate step
   * If flow validate fails, skip the testsuite
   * If flow validate passes, then flow create fails, fail the testsuite
   * If flow validate passes, flow create passes, then run the testsuite and validate the flow behavior (pass or fail based on testsuite assert)
   * Dean added a verify_skip method to the testsuite class used for skipping testsuites at runtime based on some condition
* Per test suite config docs: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35240
   * Doc update towards explaining how to leverage the per test suite config
* Perf tg support: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35239
   * Patrick is picking up this series
   * UNH people will ensure that the forwarding test metrics align with the results we get from legacy DTS, which is considered stable
   * The legacy framework single core forwarding test had some effort done towards supporting different traffic mixes/profiles, and we should examine this for the new testsuite, but the MVP will feature basically a uniform set of packets
* L4 packet matching: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=3522
   * Luca provided a few nits
   * Nits are resolved, so Patrick can test and merge
* Improved port handling: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250506131657.1576152-1-luca.vizzarro@arm.com/
   * Patrick needs to review ASAP
* Packet capture testsuite: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35163
   * UNH guys need to provide a review and test on our hardware
* Tmp dir dpdk tree dir: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=35049
   * UNH guys need to provide a review
* Patrick needs to resolve a docs error from the stats testsuite

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Bugzilla discussions
* None

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Any other business
* DPDK-Pktgen
   * Patrick should share the pktgen notes and code example the CESNET guys shared at a future meeting
* Cloud testing
   * Matthew is setting up an environment on Azure to experiment with DTS.
* Group looked at roadmap status DTS 25.07 Roadmap
* Luca will be gone for 3 weeks, and will be back in the 2nd half of June
* Next meeting is Jun 5, 2025