[dpdk-ci] Community CI Meeting Minutes - January 14, 2021

[Aaron Conole]

David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:

> Sorry I did not attend.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:14 PM Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
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>> Minutes
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>> CI Status
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>> Intel Lab
>>
>> * Smoke tests are now enabled and results are being included in the
>> reports to patch works.  Running about 6 test cases right now.
>> Check the patchworks reports for the specific details (showing up as
>> intel-test in pathworks as the label).  Recommend to add a link to
>> the DTS test plan into the reports for each of the test cases that
>> are being run.
>> * Merge coming for pmdinfogen, which will add some additional python
>> dependencies.  Labs (UNH and Intel) will need to add these into the
>> test systems / DUTs where necessary:
>> https://patches.dpdk.org/cover/81614/
>
> Since it blocks those changes from being merged in the main repo, can
> we (Thomas or I) get a heads up when all systems are ready?
>
>
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>> Github Actions / Travis CI / OBS
>>
>> * Github Actions have been running for about 1 month.  Working on
>> automating the process of checking the output and posting the
>> results to patchworks.  ETA is probably about 1 to 2 weeks away.
>> * Planning to keep Travis CI around for now, specifically for the
>> ARM builds.  Hopefully, the amount of “free execution time” will be
>> enough to cover the ARM builds.
>
> I am not sure we will have enough credits, but ok, why not.

If it turns out that we can't get builds from it, we can just remove it.

>
>> * OBS, still need a mechanism for timing out branches.  This will
>> get worked on once the Github Action work is completed.  Will take 2
>> to 4 weeks, once started.
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>> UNH-IOL Community Lab
>>
>> * We are aware of pending patchsets on the dashboard and will be investigating those today.
>> * Arm machines are now running compile and unit testing.
>> ** Now focusing on implementing functional and performance testing
>> using the NICs installed in the machine.
>> ** Broken unit test case: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612
>> * Mellanox systems are now running functional testing; we are
>> currently monitoring these results for false negatives.  We need to
>> double check it sent an updated report to patchworks.
>> * Feature request: how could maintainer request rerun of jobs, possibly through the dashboard.
>> * Implemented a failure alert system to detect false failures quicker.
>> * Testing failures will now report the last 20 lines of log output,
>> example is here:
>> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2021-January/174069.html
>
> Thanks!
> I noticed today, it is a small improvement, but it will save us some
> time when looking at the reports.
>
> Just a comment on this example, we can only see the Ubuntu SPDK
> failure and not the other failures, is this expected?