Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] dts: ssh connection to a node

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:35:07AM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote:
> All the necessary code needed to connect to a node in a topology with
> a bit more, such as basic logging and some extra useful methods.
> 
> To run the code, modify the config file, conf.yaml and execute ./main.py
> from the root dts folder. Here's an example config:
> executions:
>   - system_under_test: "SUT 1"
> nodes:
>   - name: "SUT 1"
>     hostname: 127.0.0.1
>     user: root
> 
> The framework will use the user's SSH key to authenticate. User password
> can be specified, in which case it will be used, but it's strongly
> discouraged.
> 
> There are configuration files with a README that help with setting up
> the execution/development environment.
> 
> The code only connects to a node. You'll see logs emitted to console
> saying where DTS connected.
> 
> There's only a bit of documentation, as there's not much to document.
> We'll add some real docs when there's enough functionality to document,
> when the HelloWorld testcases is in (point 4 in our roadmap below). What
> will be documented later is runtime dependencies and how to set up the DTS
> control node environment.
> 
> This is our current roadmap:
> 1. Review this patchset and do the rest of the items in parallel, if
> possible.
> 2. We have extracted the code needed to run the most basic testcase,
> HelloWorld, which runs the DPDK Hello World application. We'll split
> this along logical/functional boundaries and send after 1 is done.
> 3. Once we have 2 applied, we're planning on adding a basic functional
> testcase - pf_smoke. This send a bit of traffic, so the big addition is
> the software traffic generator, Scapy. There's some work already done on
> Traffic generators we'll be sending as a dependence on this patch
> series.
> 4. After 3, we'll add a basic performance testcase which doesn't use
> Scapy, but Trex or Ixia instead.
> 5. This is far in the future, but at this point we should have all of
> the core functionality in place. What then remains is adding the rest of
> the testcases.
> 
> We're already working on items 2-4 and we may send more patches even
> before this patch series is accepted if that's beneficial. The new
> patches would then depend on this patch.
> 
> This patch, as well as all others in the pipeline, are the result of
> extensive DTS workgroup review which happens internally. If you'd like
> us to make it more public we'd have no problem with that.
> 

Thanks for all the work on this, it's good to see DTS making its way slowly
towards mainline DPDK.

Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>