DTS WG Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

DTS WG Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

[Patrick Robb]

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Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Juraj Linkeš
* Paul Szczepanek
* Jeremy Spewock
* Nicholas Pratte
* Dean Marx
* Luca Vizzarro

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Thomas has merged some patchseries:
   * Testpmd params:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32231&state=*
   * Mypy: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32026&state=*
      * UNH can roll out the CI testing for mypy early next week
   * Error and usage improvements:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32038&state=*
   * Testpmd show port info/stats:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32112&state=*
   * Rename execution to test run:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240607083858.58906-1-juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech/
   * Node and inheritance improvements:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32230&state=*
   * Hugepage configuration refactor:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32129&state=*
      * Thomas found an issue with Nick's patchset, some parts were
not in the right patches; the parts are in DPDK docs and each
individual commit must be valid, which was not the case with Nick's
patch
         * Each individual patch must build docs successfully. The
renaming needs to be grouped into one patch instead of split out.
         * Lines must be broken logically, like after a dot or comma.
But, there is a line limitation and this may restrict our ability to
write freely. There isn’t a hard requirement that the line breaks with
some punctuation (although this is helpful), a logical separation in
the sentence structure is fine too.
   * Improved interactive shell output gathering not merged as there
were some unresolved comments
   * Everyone please rebase
* DPDK Summit Montreal
   * Possible CFP topics for DTS:
      * How to write a testsuite. This could be a simple lightning
talk which shows how we wrote one of the testsuites we are working on
now.
      * Luca is interested in giving this talk
* Thomas mentioned: We may discuss creating a git tree for you (for DTS)
   * This would help Juraj and the DTS group have more control over
merging patches
   * This is like next-* branches on DPDK. So it would be like a next-dts.
   * Patrick Robbcan also add it to the agenda.
      * Juraj should join to share his thoughts as DTS maintainer
      * Meeting info here: https://core.dpdk.org/techboard/
* Do we want to switch to Ubuntu 24.04 as the distro of choice? This
would prompt a Python update, which we could use for dataclasses
(@typing.dataclass_transform) and other things
* RC2 should be 2 weeks out. 5th of July.

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Patch discussions
* Improve interactive shell output gathering/logging
   * There are some unresolved comments from Nick

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Bugzilla discussions
* Vlan filter ethdev bug added: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464

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Any other business
* Next meeting Jul 3, 2024

Re: DTS WG Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

[David Marchand]

Hello guys,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> * DPDK Summit Montreal
>    * Possible CFP topics for DTS:
>       * How to write a testsuite. This could be a simple lightning
> talk which shows how we wrote one of the testsuites we are working on
> now.
>       * Luca is interested in giving this talk

It would be cool too if it goes with a crash course about how to setup
and start DTS (helloworld).
This may be a bit like reading the existing doc, but it could help
people cross the initial barrier of touching something new to them.

If it is short enough, it can go in the "writing a testsuite" talk,
otherwise make it a preliminary talk?


-- 
David Marchand

Re: DTS WG Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

[Patrick Robb]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM David Marchand
<david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> > * DPDK Summit Montreal
> >    * Possible CFP topics for DTS:
> >       * How to write a testsuite. This could be a simple lightning
> > talk which shows how we wrote one of the testsuites we are working on
> > now.
> >       * Luca is interested in giving this talk
>
> It would be cool too if it goes with a crash course about how to setup
> and start DTS (helloworld).
> This may be a bit like reading the existing doc, but it could help
> people cross the initial barrier of touching something new to them.
>
> If it is short enough, it can go in the "writing a testsuite" talk,
> otherwise make it a preliminary talk?
>

+1

There are also some policy changes for the new DTS framework which it
wouldn't hurt to explain, example: password auth to the traffic gen
and DUT nodes is banned and we run from containers so you have to
mount your ~/.ssh into the container. It's all explained in the README
and the docker command given, but not everyone knows containers very
well so it wouldn't hurt to run through this stuff as they could trip
up some people who are new to DTS.